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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
- Message-ID: <C0CAuJ.1AL@panix.com>
- Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
- References: <1993Jan4.144305.4456@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:20:43 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1993Jan4.144305.4456@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> 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.?
-
- It means no boot device is available. When this occurs on an IBM PC, it
- jumps to the ROM-based cassette Basic interpreter, which is usually
- absent on clones.
-
- How to fix: fix your hardware, partitioning, and format in such a way
- that the hard or floppy disk boots properly.
-
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