7 Feb
1999
7 Feb
'99
9:46 a.m.
Hi,
Just a few possibilities.
Some hard drives will cause the above message if the 0 track has been altered (written
over) linux is well know for this and the only way I know to resolve this is to low level
format the drive. A lot of 386 and early 486 Award BIOS machines have an option of hard
drive utility. If you do you're all set. I chose a 3 for the interleave value.
Try and boot the computer from the floppy, then run fdisk to see if you can reset the hd.
Check to see if any of the jumpers are missing from the pcboard part of the drive. Try
typing the drive manufacture and model in Alta-Vista and see if the specs come up. That
usually works for me.
If you have no set-up disk..... try the following on boot to get to the setup up Menu.
1) Hit CTRL+ALT+S or
2) Hit CTRL+ESCP or
3) Hit DEL
Paul
At 06:21 PM 2/7/99 +0100, royston hill wrote:
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
7 Feb
7 Feb
10:03 a.m.
Date sent: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:46:08 -0800
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Hi,
Just a few possibilities.=20
Some hard drives will cause the above message if the 0 track has been =
altered (written over) linux is well know for this and the only way I =
know to resolve this is to low level format the drive. A lot of 386 and =
early 486 Award BIOS machines have an option of hard drive utility. If =
you do you're all set. I chose a 3 for the interleave value.
Do NOT EVER dump that junk on mailing list, Paul E. Passmore III!
Some don't have capacity to read or are paying per call or time
online. Please just text email, if you want to someone to have a
software point it where everybody can download it off the 'net.
And please don't take this word that Paul suggested to LLF a
modern hd to fix like this! Do:
Boot up with DOS bootable disk complete with:
fdisk, format, edit/qbasic set and sys.
startup fdisk to delete all the old partitions, put new parititon as
needed, make it active if needed and let it write to hd. It will next
reboot the machine itself. That step 1 done, next step 2 is to
format it by: format c:/u/s.
If it doesn't boot up by itself on the HD, do this: boot with disk
again, do fdisk /mbr
still dead, try sys c:
This process works very well on IDE drives and I have changed
Linux in and out for another OSes easily.
MFM, RLL, ESDI drives needs to be LLF'ed to work properly when
marrying a "stranger" to a controller card for first time.
SCSI and IDE very rarely requires LLF.
Jason D.
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