Re: Detecting CDROM drive from FreeDOS boot floppy


"Allan Adler" wrote

Note: Windows 98 IS DOS based; this is why the "recovery diskette" boots
into DOS. But I doubt that this helps you; you have your system booted
as DOS and can read a CD - and that's it!

I might be able to copy the mbr of the CD to the mbr of the floppy using the
Linux dd command. Why do you think that would enable Ubuntu's start.exe to run?

While taking out the garbage at work, a thought suddenly appeared.... why exactly
are we trying to run an Ubuntu CD (or is it Fedora 2 now?), from a boot floppy?
Weren't we just temporarily using the floppy to diagnose the mouse problem?

RedHat obviously has the needed drivers to recognize the CD drive (you already
said you use it), and I don't remember you saying that the install won't run from
Linux, only that when you first installed the current version, you had to use a boot
floppy because the system wouldn't boot directly to the CD.

And according to Google, about a year ago you explained:

- I changed to k: and changed directory to dosutils and uttered the magic
- words: loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz initrd=autoboot\initrd.img and, behold,
- RedHat 7.1 installed itself and is now running on the machine.

The current CD just has a "Start.exe" for installing? How very Windowish!

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