Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???

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From: bruce
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 16:23

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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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Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
Date: 4 Jan 1993 16:23:20 GMT
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