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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ericom!eddie.ericsson.se!etllnfr
- From: etllnfr@eddie.ericsson.se (Lyndon Fletcher)
- Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.123230.28026@ericsson.se>
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eddie.ericsson.se
- Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
- References: <19377@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 12:32:30 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- >> The Golden Gryphon writes:
- >>
- >> Msg-ID: <1993Jan05.132239.3881@openage.openage.com>
- >> Posted: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 13:22:3
- >>
- >> Org. : Open Age, Inc.
- >>
- >> 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
- >>
- >> You may not have the boot partition active. Hookup the drive and run fdisk
- >> off
- >> floppy, and check the partition status.
- >> --
-
- I only saw an answer to this message not the full version so if the following
- has been covered already I'm sorry :-)
-
- I think the problem is that the drive has been formated with IBM DOS (PCDOS).
- The original PC's had cassette basic built into the ROM's as well as the usual
- BIOS stuff. PCDOS would check the availability of this ROM basic during
- bootup and would print the error message above if it couldn't find it.
-
- Because no clones included cassette BASIC on ROM, vanilla DOS does not
- perform this trick. Check that the floppies you are using are MSDOS not
- PCDOS and if the 340Mb drive is bootable check that it is MSDOS not PCDOS.
-
- Fletch
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