David White wrote:
James Wilkinson wrote:
David White wrote:
I couldn't... find any combo of commands that would boot to MsDos
...can't determine a method to make 1st primary partition active.
But it dual boots to FC2 & WinDoze 2000
Rodrigo, Scott, & James,
A big "Tip of the Hat" for all your input on finalizing my grub.conf
Grub.conf now works for pure MsDos.
I have one hard drive & dos is in the first primary partition. (I use
it to restore drive_image backups etc.)
AFAIK there is no pure way to boot directly to dos when win 2000 is
also installed. (2nd primary hard drive)
FWIW here is what I did.
Downloaded a dos program bootpart v2.5 and made a copy of the dos boot
sector (512 bytes)
...named the file dosboot.bin
Copied dosboot.bin to C:\ on the 1st primary partition.
Booted to a dos floppy & reloaded the system files - A:\sys C:
Rebooted to GRUB
I can now boot to FC2, Win2000, & MsDos
grub.conf (dos portion)
# Loading MsDos
title MsDos v6.22
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader /dosboot.bin
This is a great newsgroup...3rd week using Linux and the threads have
helped me to resolve issues and redirect my thinking.
Thanks everyone,
Dave White
GRUB provides "hide" and "unhide" commands to enable booting msdos or
windows when both are installed on a system. Google should provide
numerous examples. I think this would provide a simpler solution.
