Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:38:35 EST From: BriGuy1024@aol.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FIPS session ends w/ "Memory Allocation Error" Message-ID: <0.c9aed7b2.256ca9ab@aol.com>
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I ran FIPS to split my 6.4gig hd. Win95b is the first OS, and I hope to load
FreeBSD on the new partition. The FIPS session seemed to go well, but ended
with:
Repartioning complete
With FAT32 partitions, you should now run scandisk on the shortened partition
Bye!
Memory Allocation error
Cannot load COMMAND, system halted.
I had run FIPS from a: using a boot disk as recommended in fips.doc.
I then rebooted normally, starting Windows95, and ran FDISK:
Current Fixed Disk Drive: 1
Partition Status Type Volume label Mbytes System Usage
C: 1 A PRI-DOS 4628 FAT32
75%
2 NON-DOS 1553
25%
So, partition 2 is the newly created one, but it is listed as NON-DOS.
According to fips.doc, fips is supposed to create a new primary DOS
partition, which it seems not to have done in my case. Also, the new
partition is supposed to be recognized by DOS after you reboot, but no new
drives appear in Windows Explorer, just the same old A, C, and Q (cd rom).
Not knowing what to do, I "fiddled" with the FDISK option that allows you to
set the active partition. I set 2 as Active, and then switched back,
figuring this wasn't going to help anything.
I then rebooted using the FIPS boot disk to run fips -t since the fips.doc
says that's a
way of making sure things went right. The partition table displayed was now
different from what it was when I originally ran FIPS:
original: START END S
tart # of
Part. Bootble Head Cyl. Sector System Head Cyl. Sector Sectr. Sect.
MB
1 yes 1 0 1 0Ch 254 589 63
63 9478287 4628
2 no 0 590 1 0Ch 254 787 63 9478350
3180870 1553
3 no 0 0 0 00h 0 0 0
0 0 0
4 no 0 0 0 00h 0 0 0
0 0 0
after reboot:
START END
Start # of
Part. Bootble Head Cyl. Sector System Head Cyl. Sector Sectr. Sect.
MB
1 no 0 0 0 00h 0 0 0
0 0 0
2 no 0 0 0 00h 0 0 0
0 0 0
3 yes 1 0 1 0Ch 254 589 63
63 9478287 4628
4 no 0 590 1 1Ch 254 787 63 9478350
3180870 1553
As you can see, Partitions 1 & 2 are now listed as 3 & 4. And under
"System", 4 now says 1Ch instead of 0Ch. (whatever that means).
The fips.doc does warn that you could encounter problems if your system uses
a "disk cache" (like Smartdrive), so I searched my C: drive for "smartdrive"
before even starting fips and found nothing. Maybe there is some other disk
cache on my system? I don't know how to check for that, other than running
"find" for the words "disk cache", which I did, and which listed various
files that contained either "disk" or "cache" only, none of which seemed to
belong to the sort of program warned about in fips.doc.
My system has just the one HD (Intel 82371AB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller).
If I can provide any other info that might be useful let me know.
Any help is appreciated,
Brian
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