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
