Re: installation problems

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:18:28PM -0500, Bart Oldeman wrote:

[LILO]
> > other = /boot/bootsect.fd
> >       Label=FreeDOS
> >
> > Yes, you really needn't mention the drive at all! It's all in the file.
> > Now it works! :-)
> 
> Fine! Yes I haven't thought of that. But it works because lilo simply
> remembers the sector where bootsect.fd is stored. So you'll need to re-run
> lilo if you would ever run a defragger or something similar.

defragger:
If you leave it on the FAT system, you could also set the system
attribute, then the defragger should leave it alone.

I was surprised anyway, that the kernel.sys doesn't have the system
attribute set. :-?

> > P.S.:
> > Would be nice if one could boot FreeDOS from a deliberate drive in the
> > future, and if it seeks the config.sys on the drive, it is loaded from.
> 
> It can boot from the 2nd hd, believe me, people have done it. You probably
> encountered an obscure bug :)
> 
> About config.sys, this is more difficult than you might think. The kernel
> cannot assume that BIOS drive 0x81 corresponds to drive D: for instance.
> Patches are welcome though ;-)

Hmm... It may be difficult to do it automatically, but what about making
it configurable with "sys config"?

-- 
Tschuess
	Andreas