no rom basic

From: Hans B Pufal <hansp_at_digiweb.com>
Date: Sun Feb 7 10:45:34 1999

royston hill wrote:
>
> Hi ,can you assist .we have a old 386 with a conner 80 meg HD .We needed
> to clean same and used the zero fill from disk manager on boot up. we
> got message NO ROM BASIC >SYSTEM HALTED we cannot find anything on this
> error message.or what we did wrong ?????? regards from africa ROY HILL

Sounds like you wiped the OS from the hard disk and are thus unable to
boot form it. You need to boot form a floppy, use FDISK to establish a
partition on the hard disk and then format it.

Good luck,

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