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SubjectRe: NO ROM BASIC
Greetings,
I have actually had this occur due to a software malfunction before...
The cause was actually the fact that my MBR got fried AND I had no active
boot partition. All that was necessary to fix this was booting off a floppy
and making that partition active. For a linux only system this can be
complex, but if DOS is your first partition just get the stock DOS disk,
fdisk to enable an active partition, then fdisk /mbr to be safe. this may
toast Lilo, but it will be a bootable system.
But one way or another, it is a BIOS problem, and maybe further a Hardware
problem. I agree.

Mark

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Kenneth D'Ambrosio wrote:

> That's not a kernel issue -- that's what a non-IBM(tm) machine says when
> it can't find a boot device. In other words, your hard drive is, somehow,
> not communicating with the system. Watch your power-up stuff, and you'll
> most likely see that the hard drive isn't being mentioned. Check your
> cables, make sure the BIOS is configured properly, make sure your ID
> jumpers are correct, and, lastly, listen to see if the drive itself is
> spinning up -- it may have died. NOTE: this is a HARDWARE issue; merely
> blowing away your MBR wouldn't give you this error; then you'd get a
> "Can't find OS" or some such error.
>
> Ken D'Ambrosio
> SysAdmin,
> Cisco Systems, Inc.
> kend@cisco.com
>
> P.S. A True Blue IBM machine actually *would* load up basica, which is
> stored (or, at least, used to be) in ROM. Pretty damn useless, but fun.
> Also true for Compaq, when they used to license the IBM BIOS.
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Konstantyn Prokopenko wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:29:57 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Konstantyn Prokopenko <kproko@analogic.com>
> > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> > Subject: NO ROM BASIC
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm new in Linux and I've got a problem compiling a kernel.
> > I have dual PENTIUM II motherboard with 128 Mb memory runing Red Hat
> > Linux. I compiled the 2.1.128 Linux kernel using:
> >
> > make config
> > make dep
> > make bzImage
> > make install
> >
> >
> > Then I rebooted. When it starts, it goes to 40 column mode and
> > says "NO ROM BASIC"
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > K.V.P
> >
> >
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