As an after thought I found out about EasyBCD, downloaded and installed it. I have two "already installed" OS's residing on two separate disks, one W7 and the other XP. I am totally new to EasyBCD, so forgive me in advance. To sum it up: how can I add FreeDOS to the Win7 boot Manager ? When the machine starts up, the Windows boot Manager does Show a new entry "FreeDOS" (that's how I named it in EasyBCD), but when I hit enter, I only see a GRUB console that waits for user input. Under EasyBCD, I used "Add new Entry", Type "MS-DOS 6.x" and since it says that it would automaticallyĭetermine the drive i thought this would do the trick. To the boot menu of the Windows Boot Manager. Win7 still comes up normally, and I used EasyBCD to manage the BCD store of Windows to add FreeDOS
That worked OK.Īt the end of the FreeDOS installation, IIRC, I chose to write the boot sector of that partition. With FAT32 and then installed FreeDOS from CD-ROM. How would I go about installing and booting FreeDOS when Windows 7 is already on the machine ?īackground: Since I don't want to shred Win7's bootloader, I followed this adviceĪnd moved the Win7 Partition up 256 MiB, used GParted on a Live CD to format the first partition By example a button beside of the choice "grub" who open a Internet page where the user can learn what he does use. simple to use and with a simple help fonction when the user must made a choice. I would to have a easyBCD version "for dummies". still the selection between Grub and Grub2 is for the most users a big problem. I wold also that the developpers of easyBCD learn that such programs must work in a simple way.
How to use easybcd 2.3 install#
a system like linuxmint must install witout any "tournaround" learned by the users after multiple crashs.
How to use easybcd 2.3 software#
Linuxmint is a very fine computer system but the developpers do not have enough practice to know that it is a stupid way to handle when a software producer create multiple "tournarounds". and every time when I will store the MBR on a disk he ask me for a active primary partition. easyBCD does not explain WHERE the user must store the new MBR. I feel that there is a problem with the MBR. And with easyBCD it was possible to get a boot menu with 2 entrys. And it is not possible to START the new system from the HDD! For this raison I have seek for easyBCD. and there the system stays and it is not possible to verify if it exists (windows does not read EXT4-Partitions). Only one was able to made that I can install linuxmint on a hdd partition.
How to use easybcd 2.3 full#
I had for more then 7 hours to find out a way to make working a USB-bootable disk installer (the most are full of bugs!). I have now a Linuxmint installation on a partition of a HDD on a Samsung ultra Notebook. but I am still seeking for clean instructions in easyBCD.
very fine on the outside and full of "tournarrounds" in the inner side. but has the some problems like all Linux distributions. By example I can not find the fast boot option on the energy control pannel in Windows 8.1 on two notebooks (from Samsung and from Acer).ĮasyB7 hours to CD seems to be fine. It seeems that a lot of computers has different Windows 8.1 versions on it.