From: brandon@gaia.msfc.nasa.gov (Brandon S. Dewberry) Subject: Re: uninstalling LILO using fdisk /mbr doesn't work with DrDos 6.0 Date: 7 Aug 1993 21:50:09 GMT
kstark@garbo.uwasa.fi (Kristian Stark) writes:
>In a previous article, brandon@gaia.msfc.nasa.gov (Brandon S. Dewberry) says:
>>I tried to re-install a DOS master boot record, using the
>>FAQ instructions ( boot from DOS floppy and issue fdisk /mbr ).
>>DrDOS obviously doesn't understand this option. It took me
>No, DR-DOS does not have the /mbr option for fdisk; it is implemented withing
>fdisk instead. There shoudld be an option (don't have DR-DOS here) under
>the main fdisk prompts to restore the old master boot record.
>I may be wrong as to what it is called, but it should be there somewhere...
>Somebody with DRD please confirm - I recall this from a novell discussion
>some time back...
I'm looking in the DrDOS 6.0 manual at fdisk. The closest thing is to
set a partition as the 'active' or bootable partition. DrDOS's fdisk
environment won't let me do this, however, because my linux partition
looks like a DrDos extended partition. When I pike the 'Select bootable
partition' option, and then pick partition 2 (my linux partition) it says:
'can't boot from extended partition'. Could this be something new since
we've gotten extended file systems?
Brandon