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- From: bruce@bruces.frontiertech.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 16:23:20 GMT
- Organization: Frontier Technologies
- Lines: 13
- Message-ID: <1i9o9oINN15i@spool.mu.edu>
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- In my experience:
- This fabulously descriptive error message means there is no
- active boot partition on the drive. Use Fdisk to set the active
- partition. Note, this does not mean that the disk is not partioned,
- just that you haven't labeled any partition as the one to boot from.
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- Bruce A Backman
- Software Engineer
- Frontier Technologies Corporation
- bruce@FrontierTech.com
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