NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???

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From: Don Rubin
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 14:43

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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?

Thanks....
--
Don Rubin
Johns Hopkins Univ APL
rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu

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