Did you see the FreeDOS name come up on the screen when you booted the USB fob drive? The SHELLHIGH line in FDCONFIG.SYS points to a different COMMAND.COM execution line:
SHELLHIGH=\FDSetup\BIN\COMMAND.COM \FDSetup\BIN /E:2048 /P=\AUTOEXEC.BAT But I'll suggest this: Try entering A:\COMMAND.COM for the COMMAND.COM location. There's a COMMAND.COM at the root of the USB image, so that should work. If that doesn't work, try a few other drive letters in case the USB fob drive somehow got mounted as C: or D: or E: Jim On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:45 AM Karl Brown via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hi - > > I have a Dell Dimension 9100, circa 2005, that I'd like to give away or sell, > but first I wanted to wipe the disk. In order to do so, I used DBAN, which I > was told would not touch the HPA (Host Protected Area). DBAN ran > successfully, but now I can't get into the Dell System restore partition in > order to re-install the OS. (using Control-F11 at boot, which did work > *before* the DBAN). > > I've found a tool called DRSFIX (detail here: > https://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/) that can be used to possibly fix this > issue. > > However, in order to use DSRFIX, I need to boot into DOS, hence I'm trying to > get a FreeDOS bootable USB working. > > I don't have another PC handy, but I formatted a USB key to FAT with MBR > using OSX, and installed the 1.2 version of FreeDOS to this USB drive using > this command: > > > sudo dd if=~/Downloads/FD12LITE/FD12LITE.img of=/dev/disk2 > > I was then able to boot into FreeDOS on my Dell, by selecting the "Boot from > USB" option from the Dell boot menu. > > However, after booting, it comes up with the error: > Bad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256 > Enter the full shell command line: > > It gives a few other warnings about partitions when booting up, that I can > copy down when I get back to the computer later... > > One thing to note is that in the BIOS, I have disabled regular floppy disks, > I've only set it to accept USB floppy (whatever that means). I saw in some > other messages that this "missing Command Interpreter" error may have > something to do with floppy disks, so I'm wondering if I have to attach a > floppy disk or tweak bios settings or something here? I'm also wondering > whether DBAN having blown away the c: drive could be causing the issues with > FreeDOS not wanting to fully boot. > > Does anyone have any hints of next steps I can try to debug this? > > Thanks! > Karl > karl_tra...@yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user