Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

[Louis S. <lps...@gm...>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Mateusz Viste <ma...@vi...> wrote:
> I'm going with Louis on this one. When installing FreeDOS, I'd expect
> the installer to overwrite my MBR with clean boot code, so I don't have
> any troubles booting FreeDOS post install. That's what MS-DOS did, and
> that's what I expect from any OS in fact.

Matuesz, I actually went and tested this.  MS-DOS 6.22 [0]
handles the MBR that same way as FDI [1] does. :/  Both leave a broken
MBR, one that cannot boot into the newly installed DOS.

> Naturally, an appropriately big warning must be presented before doing
> so, and if the user knows he has some tricky configuration (multi-boot),
> he should be able to select an option "leave my MBR alone please, I will
> take care of it myself".

YES!


[0] https://youtu.be/etnVOlW23XE
[1] https://youtu.be/zKcCVZH7q3s