GRUB question 2251

I'm not sure exactly what I told it beyond the file system type, but I do remember it printing something about formatting the disk. I think it did format the vfat parbreastion. The reason I think so is that last night, after posting the message you are replying to, I used the floppy I made with dd from fd1440.img to boot the machine. I think it didn't completely install FREEDOS but along the way it complained about an old DOS system already on the disk. Also, when it finally settled down and gave me the A: prompt, I executed "dir c:" and it showed me: FDCONFIG.SYS FREEDOS.BSS KERNEL.SYS

The directory TEMP contains COMMAND.COM. I then rebooted from the HD and selected DOS from the boot menu, but it still didn't boot DOS. When it booted Linux, I looked atmnt-c and things were exactly as dir c: had described them. In Linux, I can copy the rest of the stuff on the FREEDOS diskette to the HD and will do so later. I'm not sure what the file kernel.sys is; maybe it is FREEDOS and maybe it is syslinux. Anyway, it seems like a tempting thing to mention inboot-grub.conf, e.g. rootnoverify(hd0,0)-mnt-c-kernel.sys

Linux Utilisateur suggested some procedures but declined to take any responsibility for them. I'd like to see some documentation that goes into more detail. I read the Grub info file this morning and found it very informative, but it doesn't go into that. Is there any documentation that does?

If I say that I have a certain impression of something and if that impression is incorrect, the correct response, should you choose to respond, is to tell me where to get correct information. The same applies to naive questions such as those I asked about working from Linux instead of using the FREEDOS installer. I ask my questions based on the little I know and maybe that doesn't make for very informed questions much of the time. For you to simply dump on me for not knowing anything is to proclaim as your own discovery that which I have already proclaimed in my signature below.

Do you want people to use Linux or not? If so, don't expect everyone to be an expert on it before they use it. At least I'm trying to climb the learning curve instead of using the machine like an appliance. -- Ignorantly, * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and * comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.