Fred Grant wrote:
I could not find any examples dealing with pure msdos. I did try the hide and unhide commands but with not luck.David White wrote:
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.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
I would prefer a simpler solution.
Good Luck, Dave
