Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???

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From: Michael Schuster
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 17:20

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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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