Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???

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From: The Golden Gryphon
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 13:22

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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

You may not have the boot partition active.  Hookup the drive and run fdisk off
floppy, and check the partition status.
-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
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From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 13:22:39 GMT
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