Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???

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From: Clemens Beckstein
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 16:08

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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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