From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 23 20: 4:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B000C154E3 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 20:04:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from BriGuy1024@aol.com) Received: from BriGuy1024@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v24.4.) id n.0.1d1755c7 (4422); Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:04:14 -0500 (EST) From: BriGuy1024@aol.com Message-ID: <0.1d1755c7.256cbdbd@aol.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:04:13 EST Subject: Re: FIPS session ends w/ "Memory Allocation Error" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: pulsifer@mediaone.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 38 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >If you are going to install FreeBSD in the second partition, >you want a primary partition, not an extended parition. >DOS will not recognize any primary partition except its own. >Reading though only the part quoted below, every thing looks >correct. >Allen So, the partition that FIPS created is an extended partition? Any idea why it would do that? Any idea of how to change it to a primary partition? Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > BriGuy1024@aol.com > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 9:39 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FIPS session ends w/ "Memory Allocation Error" > > > 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). ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from rly-yh03.mx.aol.com (rly-yh03.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.35]) by air-yh04.mail.aol.com (vx) with ESMTP; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:46:05 1900 Received: from chmls05.mediaone.net (ne.mediaone.net [24.128.1.70]) by rly-yh03.mx.aol.com (v65.4) with ESMTP; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:45:53 1900 Received: from ahp3 (ahp.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.184.250]) by chmls05.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA21965 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:45:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Allen Pulsifer" To: Subject: RE: FIPS session ends w/ "Memory Allocation Error" Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:45:53 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <0.c9aed7b2.256ca9ab@aol.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message