Thanks for the heads up regarding a free version of DOS. We stupidly threw
away
our DOS diskettes years ago, iin 1984 if memory serves, after convincing
ourselves
that DOS was totally unnecessary in a good unix working environment. :-) We
never realized that we would eventually find ourselves grappling with a
unix-like
bootloader with an inherent weakness that would force us to temporarily revert
back to this ancient OS. :-)
Ironically, I will probably go back to recommending Lilo in the future
unless/until this problem is resolved *without* using other OSes. Lilo may be a
poorer choice in many respects but its designers do understand that a user might
wish to stop using it under some circumstances.