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from: Constant Brouerius van Nidek
date: 2008-05-10 14:51:50
subject: Re: My Drdos 7.03 will not boot.

From: Constant Brouerius van Nidek 

On Saturday 10 May 2008, Michal H. Tyc wrote:
> > Somehow suddenly the drdos did not want to start via grub.
>
> Can you describe the problem more precisely? Do you get any error messages?
>
Grub starts as expected but when I choose Drdos it gives following 
information:
rootnoverifi (hd1,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

Cannot load DOS! Any key to retry.

Any key reboots my computer.

> So the DOS partition is fine and no files are missing? Have you run
> CHKDSK or similar tool?
>
Did chkdsk /f and had a lot of bad sectors.
In the meantime it is repaired. My command.com autoexec.bat and config.sys are 
fine as are the system files.

> You may want to try refreshing the Master Boot Record using FDISK (FDISK
> should make a copy for you) and set the DOS partition active. If DR-DOS
> boots fine then, it is some problem with GRUB. Later you would have to
> re-install and configure GRUB, of course. But error messages and CHKDSK
> report would indicate whether the action described above makes sense.
>

Did fdisk /mbr but this fdisk does not react to /mbr.
Get the normal fdisk menu with as choice number 5 write mbr new or something 
like that. Using this choice it says it has rewritten the mbr but my grub 
starts as usual and the choice in grub still gives the same answers.
Did a sys a: c: which went okay. An it is sure the first partition of the 
first drive where drdos is positioned.


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