Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Dec 1998 03:57:43 -0500 | From | Randy Dees <> | Subject | [Off-Topic] Re: NO ROM BASIC |
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> > > > Then I rebooted. When it starts, it goes to 40 column mode and > > says "NO ROM BASIC" > > Pardon me, but it sounds like you just booted an Atari 400 (or maybe a > VIC 20, or possibly a Commodore PET ;-). > > Seriously, this almost sounds like a virus has infected your boot block. > Can you boot off of floppy? Are you using LILO? Do you have more than > one OS on your system? > > > Sincerely, > > K.V.P > > -- > Peter A. Castro (doctor@fruitbat.org) or (pcastro@us.oracle.com) >
It's not a virus - just the BIOS not knowing what to do with the disk.
I've seen this before when taking a secondary hard drive and making it the boot drive under DOS. As I don't recall exactly what is going on, try this site:
http://www.computercraft.com/docs/nrb.html
I don't claim it's the best description there is; it's just the first site I pulled up from infoseek with the right information.
Hope this helps.
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