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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>
  • To: Ian <info AT freedomnet.org.uk>
  • Cc: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL booted with grub4dos on drive with bad boot sector
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 19:32:29 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Ian wrote:

This computer came with Win2k in hda1 where I left it. I shrank it and
made a small hda2 with DOS (which is physically the first partition --
???) but grub4dos installed to hda1 which is a pain since I have to boot
to win2k to edit it. Make sure to install grub4dos to a non-ntfs
partition.

To boot Win2K I need to choose Advanced Menu.
XP in similar setups boots as Windows. Odd.

I don't expect to be finding/leaving Win2K on many computers. I leave Windows to help figure out of sound is dead or just not working in linux because of driver problems.

I expect if you had changed your active partition from hda1 to hda2, grub4dos
would have
installed in hda2. I'm using gparted for changing the active partition but it
might be OK to
use Fdisk.

The grub4dos installation program in puppy lets you choose where to install grub to. Usually it is mbr (hda) I think. DOS fdisk lets you make partition active (A), as does linux (c)fdisk.

I think hda2 is the first partition because of some screwy setup that came with the computer, and I deleted its contents and used them for DOS, but grub4dos by default put menulst and grldr in hda1 (Win2K).

I never knew grub could boot a disk with bad boot sector, or BL.

I am about to see if Google Chrome can be used on the desktop where I installed Grub in order to boot BL (and also installed puppy), without installing Chrome, from the directory it unpackages itself to. This works in BL with Opera (9.63) or Firefox (2.0). Comcast Internet 3MBps, without paid cable TV subscription, keeps suggesting that I watch their cable TV online (one device at a time), but insists on Flash 11.8, which is available in Ubuntu Chrome 38 (and probably 32) 46MB package, as Pepper Flash, but not as standalone past version 11.2. I am trying to wean our neighbor off $100/month cable TV. He only watches news. Tried to get him online with linux but ndiswrapper cannot handle the newish wifi card in the DELL laptop we gave him and I wanted it portable so he could watch 'TV' in different rooms. Ethernet in only the one room.

BL experience has been extremely useful on a rooted Android phone. Busybox, ssh, dropbear, scp......... ssh client gets me to my sdf account where I can use lynx (which no longer seems to work on android phones).

Ian.




Sindi Keesan




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