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Ranish Partition Manager revived (Announce)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 15.01.2023, 18:49

> > I also was able to put FreeDOS onto the partition and boot from it. But
> it
> > seems that the FreeDOS SYS command puts new boot code into the MBR,
> which
> > could not successfully boot the partition. I had to uninstall the SYS
> > provided boot code with RANISH using the "uninstall boot manager by
> loading
> > standard IPL" command. After that FreeDOS successfully booted.
>
> I don't think that SYS specifically does that. You can
> read
> the source code and point out if you find it writes an MBR anywhere,
> but I don't think it does.
>
> How did you install FreeDOS onto the disk? There probably is a part of
> the installer that will / can write an MBR loader.
My bad, there wasn't boot code at all in the MBR. It was a fresh virtual disk image. So I think it was a BIOS message.

I simply did a SYS to put the OS onto the disk.

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