no rom basic

One common cause for this message is the lack of an active partition on the boot drive. If you can attach this drive to another (preferably diskless) system and read it then perhaps the problem will be solved if you use FDISK to "make the partition active" before attempting to boot from it. Normally when you FDISK the drive, it automatically makes the partition active. If you have more than one partition, it could, depending on what the DOS version was, decide to let you tell it specifically, without asking whether you want the partition made active (which you can only do on the "boot" drive) after telling it how large to make a primary partition. Even the latest version leaves the partition inactive if you've specified you want to use less than the whole disk. It does prompt you to make the partition active or not, though. Dick -----Original Message----- From: Gene V. McNeil <cushite(a)earthlink.net> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Sunday, September 05, 1999 2:01 PM Subject: Re: no rom basic