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This item is from the Yet Another
Enhanced IDE/Fast-ATA/ATA-2 FAQ, by John Wehman and Peter den
Haan with numerous contributions by others. (v1.92).
08.01. Why do I get NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED?
This should get a prize for the PC compatible's most obscure error
message. It usually means you haven't made the primary partition
bootable or, in Microsoft-speak, 'Active'. Use FDISK to fix this.
Don't fret, you won't have to repartition or reformat anything unless
you have no primary partition at all.
The earliest true-blue PCs had a BASIC interpreter built in, just like
many other home computers those days. Even today, the Master Boot
Record (MBR) code on your harddisk jumps to the BASIC ROM if it
doesn't find any active partitions. Needless to say, there's no such
thing as a BASIC ROM in today's compatibles, and this action ends in
the above error message.
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