Hello, all. I'm going to resist my temptation to break out into 1337speak or txtcrap or whatever. Here's the problem I'm having:
I have an absolute relic system that I'm rebuilding for nostalgia purposes... with circa-1992 hardware it has a 486 in it and the hard drive controller is an ISA card (the motherboard is too old for onboard drive controllers!). I can post much more detailed information on the system than that, but I think it's enough to get us started.
I need a boot manager / boot loader that will recognize and load DOS 6.22 / Windows 3.11 on this system. The reason for this, before anyone asks, is because I installed it running from a boot floppy. The WFW311 installer is so bloody stupid that it assumes you have a bootloader already if you didn't boot from the install disk -- regardless of whether or not you actually have one on the relevant hard drive!
Also before anyone asks, I have checked on a much newer machine and gparted shows the boot flag as set.
I have tried BTTR's BootMGR. It beeps at me and dies. I can't get GRUB4DOS to install because it demands an EBIOS which is a far newer thing than this system. I can't get PLoP to install, either, because the installer won't recognize its own BIN files and the forum is utterly useless (literally. One response consisted entirely of "buy newer computer" and a nodding smiley). I found another BootMGR that installs and then gives an "invalid boot record" error when I try to use it.
Anyone got something I haven't tried?
I have an absolute relic system that I'm rebuilding for nostalgia purposes... with circa-1992 hardware it has a 486 in it and the hard drive controller is an ISA card (the motherboard is too old for onboard drive controllers!). I can post much more detailed information on the system than that, but I think it's enough to get us started.
I need a boot manager / boot loader that will recognize and load DOS 6.22 / Windows 3.11 on this system. The reason for this, before anyone asks, is because I installed it running from a boot floppy. The WFW311 installer is so bloody stupid that it assumes you have a bootloader already if you didn't boot from the install disk -- regardless of whether or not you actually have one on the relevant hard drive!
Also before anyone asks, I have checked on a much newer machine and gparted shows the boot flag as set.
I have tried BTTR's BootMGR. It beeps at me and dies. I can't get GRUB4DOS to install because it demands an EBIOS which is a far newer thing than this system. I can't get PLoP to install, either, because the installer won't recognize its own BIN files and the forum is utterly useless (literally. One response consisted entirely of "buy newer computer" and a nodding smiley). I found another BootMGR that installs and then gives an "invalid boot record" error when I try to use it.
Anyone got something I haven't tried?