Re: grub and dos, windows, and linux?

[adrian15]

En/na Greg White ha escrit:
> > > The system:
> > > P3 800Mhz
> > > 1GB RAM
> > > SCSI hard drives
> > > Adapatec 2930U2 scsi card
> > > My plan:
> > > sda1:
> > > 100MB FAT32 DOS or even FreeDOS
> > > sda2:
> > > rest of the disk space for XP
> > > sdb1:
> > > Linux - whole disk
>
> I had a few free hours yesterday so I took an old XP VPC I had that had free 
> disk space at the end of the drive and experimented.  I booted the VPC from a 
> DOS floppy, used fdisk to create a primary partition from some of the free disk 
> space.  I then formatted it, sys'd it, and installed grub.  It worked great.  
> With those results I went and did it in real life and it works great.  Windows 
> and Linux can read/write to the dos partition.  Thanks to everyone for your 
> comments.
>
> sda1: Windows XP ntfs
> sda2: DOS - fat32
> sdb1: Linux - ext3
>
> My grub.conf (installed on sda2):
>
> color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
> # End GRUB global section
> title DOS
>   rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>   chainloader +1
> title Win XP
>   rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>   makeactive
>   chainloader +1
>
> Thanks,

How did you install FreeDOS and Windows? Did you use hide and unhide 
commands?

What does happen if you delete Windows XP partition contents (not the 
partition itself? Does DOS still boots?

adrian15
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