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Booting FreeDOS with Grub

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John Westerlage

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Jan 17, 2008, 9:59:51 PM1/17/08
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I wonder if anyone can give me any pointers?

I have a Linux box, and have just created a FreeDOS
partition on it, and installed FreeDOS.

It works fine, and I can run the programs I want -
the only problem is that I cannot boot except with the
FreeDOS disk.

I would like to make a grub entry that will allow me to boot
FreeDOS from the boot menu at power-up.

This is the only grub entry I came up with, but it does not
work. I don't remember where I got the entry, but it is
apparently not correct beyond the title and root.

#
#
title FreeDOS
root (hd0,1)
kernel /data/memdisk
append initrd=data/fdosc.gz c=40 h=16 s=63 harddisk
boot
#
#

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
jw

Martin Str|mberg

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Jan 25, 2008, 8:07:56 AM1/25/08
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John Westerlage <john_we...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have a Linux box, and have just created a FreeDOS
> partition on it, and installed FreeDOS.

> It works fine, and I can run the programs I want -
> the only problem is that I cannot boot except with the
> FreeDOS disk.

> I would like to make a grub entry that will allow me to boot
> FreeDOS from the boot menu at power-up.

> This is the only grub entry I came up with, but it does not
> work. I don't remember where I got the entry, but it is
> apparently not correct beyond the title and root.

> #
> #
> title FreeDOS
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /data/memdisk
> append initrd=data/fdosc.gz c=40 h=16 s=63 harddisk
> boot
> #
> #

How about (untested):

title FreeDOS
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
boot

?


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