Just going from my experience. I recently installed Linux on a 1.2gb IDE drive. Then I fdisk-ed and removed all partitions. Then formatted and got same NO ROM BASIC. This is the drive I used the low level format on and it has been working great with no problems since.
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From: PG Manney [SMTP:manney_at_hmcltd.net]
Sent: Monday, February 08, 1999 6:33 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: no rom basic
>Some hard drives will cause the above message if the 0 track has been
altered (written over) linux is >well know for this and the only way I know
to resolve this is to low level format the drive. A lot of 386 and >early
486 Award BIOS machines have an option of hard drive utility. If you do
you're all set. I chose a 3 >for the interleave value.
Not on an IDE, though! That's a LLF.
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