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>> The Golden Gryphon writes:
>>
>> Msg-ID: <1993Jan05.132239.3881@openage.openage.com>
>> Posted: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 13:22:3
>>
>> Org.  : Open Age, Inc.
>>
>> 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.
>> --

I only saw an answer to this message not the full version so if the following
 has been covered already I'm sorry :-)

I think the problem is that the drive has been formated with IBM DOS (PCDOS).
The original PC's had cassette basic built into the ROM's as well as the usual
BIOS stuff. PCDOS would check the availability of this ROM basic during
bootup and would print the error message above if it couldn't find it.

Because no clones included cassette BASIC on ROM, vanilla DOS does not
perform this trick. Check that the floppies you are using are MSDOS not
PCDOS and if the 340Mb drive is bootable check that it is MSDOS not PCDOS.

Fletch
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