no rom basic - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Feb 1999

what the message you're seeing says is that you may have forgotten to
activate the partition, which you must do in all cases where you don't use
the "entire drive" in your primary partition.

try that, and see if it doesn't fix your problem.

Dick

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  From: royston hill &lt;rackland(a)intekom.co.za&gt;
 To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
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  Subject: no rom basic
 Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 10:21 AM

 Hi ,can you assist .we have a old 386 with a conner 80 meg HD .We needed
 to clean same and used the zero fill from disk manager on boot up. we
 got message NO ROM BASIC >SYSTEM HALTED we cannot find anything on this
 error message.or what we did wrong ??????  regards from africa ROY HILL 