Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:48:43 -0500 (EST) | From | Mark Szlaga <> | Subject | Re: NO ROM BASIC |
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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 > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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