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Message from Steven
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Mikkel wrote:
>
> I have a booting Linux vl3 on hda2 it boots with lilo. 
> Lilo is located at the hda2 partition and than it is 
> made to be the boot partition by selecting hda2 as the
> bootable partition with cfdisk this has worked now for 
> years and my project was to install freedos on hda1. 
> Well that changed something and now I can't boot anything 
> of the hard disk. 

It sounds like freedos rewrote your MBR.  I suggest
you boot from a DOS floppy and execute:  FDISK /MBR
Then execute FDISK (without /MBR) and set your
bootable partition.

> I can use the loadline and boot.bat that comes with 
> BL and modifie the boot.bat to make it boot my vl3 
> system from freedos? 

Yes, that should work.

Cheers,
Steven