Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:13:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Sebastian Zinkiewicz <zink@ionsys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get DOS back ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970210101229.195I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32FE71EB.441E@ionsys.com>
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On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Sebastian Zinkiewicz wrote: > Situation: > I was installing FreeBSD 2.1.6 > I had a power failure. . . > Since than I have decided to install FreeBSD on another hard drive. > > Question: > I want to format my crashed drive back for a DOS. > When I boot from DOS Bootable diskette I get the message: > "Memory Allocation Error > Cannot load command, System halted" Looks like your boot floppy is busted. > My another drive works perfectly on that machine (win95 and NT) so > definetely it is not a hardware problem, just the DISK... > I cannot get even to fdisk utility... If you can boot win95, then you have fdisk & format available. Just drop to a DOS prompt and fire away. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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