Re: Booting into DOS [SOLVED]

2011-12-02 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 04:19 AM 12/2/2011, Brian wrote: > >> On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 23:32:42 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: >> >> > I'm obviously doing something incorrect, since I cannot get a DOS boot. >> > I'm sure I misunderstood you. What are all the files t

Re: Booting into DOS [SOLVED]

2011-12-02 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 04:19 AM 12/2/2011, Brian wrote: On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 23:32:42 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > I'm obviously doing something incorrect, since I cannot get a DOS boot. > I'm sure I misunderstood you. What are all the files that should be > edited, and what should they contain? There is only

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-02 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 23:32:42 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > I'm obviously doing something incorrect, since I cannot get a DOS boot. > I'm sure I misunderstood you. What are all the files that should be > edited, and what should they contain? There is only one file to edit - /etc/grub.d/40_

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 07:42 PM 12/1/2011, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > Tom - > > Thanks. > > Here is the changed file. > > #!/bin/sh > exec tail -n +3 $0 > # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type > the > # menu entries you want to add aft

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 12:13:20 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > At 05:57 AM 11/28/2011, Brian wrote: >> >> > My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS >> > from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument specified" >> > adn "no such partition". How do i fi

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 17:26:00 -0500, Tom H wrote: > In grub2, sda1 is (hd0,1) or (hd0,msdos1) not (hd0,0) - although the > "search..." line should override the "set root..." line. The way understand it is: GRUB will boot using the 'search...' line if a disk is found. The 'set root...' line can b

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > Tom - > > Thanks. > > Here is the changed file. > > #!/bin/sh > exec tail -n +3 $0 > # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type > the > # menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to ch

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 05:26 PM 12/1/2011, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Brian wrote: >> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### >> # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the >> # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change >> # the '

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Brian wrote: >> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### >> # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the >> # menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change >> # the 'exec tail' line above. >> menuentry "DOS

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 12:13:20 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Sorry for the delay. > > I apologize for the length of this, but here are the two files you requested. Thanks. No need for an apology - seeing the file is essential. But I will snip a good deal of it! > ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_cust

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 05:57 AM 11/28/2011, Brian wrote: On Sun 27 Nov 2011 at 23:06:29 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS > from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument specified" > adn "no such partition". How do i fix this. Ple

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-11-28 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Nov 2011 at 23:06:29 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS > from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument specified" > adn "no such partition". How do i fix this. Please post the contents of /boot/grub/g

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-11-28 Thread Joe
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:06:29 -0500 Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear list - > > My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into > DOS from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument > specified" adn "no such partition". How do i fix this. > Good question. Do you

Booting into DOS

2011-11-27 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear list - My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument specified" adn "no such partition". How do i fix this. Thanks. Ethan Debian 6.0.1a squeeze(sid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ