At 01:21 PM 9/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I am working on a 386 dinosaur and wanted to reformat the hard drive
>after deleting the old partition, I went to reboot to (hopefully)
>format, when halfway through the boot process I get a blank screen that
>says:  NO ROM BASIC
>                                                           SYSTEM HALTED
>
>Does anyone know what this means, and how to get around it?

Use your bootable floppy disk with the FORMAT.com file on it and boot with
it, then type
FORMAT  C:  /S

what it means is that there is nothing to boot from on disk (no system
files called msdos.sys and io.sys).

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