On 25 Aug 1999, Koyote wrote:
> Well,
> I'm putting together a 486/100 from spare parts I have laying around- it'll be a
>nice box
> when I'm done, but I'm having a problem.
>
> Memory checks ok, scsi goes fine, and I get a message saying bios successfully
>started, then
> I get:
>
> NO ROM BASIC SYTEM HALTED
That's bios-speak for not being able to find a bootdisk, or a strangely
corrupted bootsector.
The ROM BASIC is a BASIC interpreter present in the BIOS of early IBM PCs,
which got started when no disk was found. If the ROM BASIC isn't found
either (i.e. on most PC's), this message is displayed by some BIOSes
Frank
>
> Never run into this before...
> (I'm using an AMI BIOS chip)
>
> Help?
> Koyote
>
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