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- From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
- Message-ID: <1i9ndqEINNa7d@uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 16:08:26 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.144305.4456@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
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- rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
-
-
- >I have been fooling around with a new motherboard
- >and some disks and get the following message when
- >I try to boot a 340mb IDE drive
-
- >NO ROM BASIC
- >SYSTEM HALTED
-
- >I was previously able to put a DOS 5.0 system
- >on this disk and boot it, but now the same disk
- >gives this error on two different motherboards
- >but a 137mb disk boots fine on both systems.
-
- >What does it mean and what do I do to fix it.?
-
- >Also, does anyone know about a program that you
- >can software boot another disk from. eg. boot
- >a floppy and then have it boot a hard drive?
-
- The disk you try to boot from probably has no boot record.
- Your machine therefore is trying to start ROM Basic
- (which is only available on true IBM machines)...
- This also explains why zou can boot from that other 137mb drive with no
- problems...
-
- - Clemens
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