Did you create a new partition and make it 'Active' ?
If not, boot from floppy and do so using FDISK.

Don Gray

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?  The system
>was working fine before all this, I just wanted to do a clean install of
>DOS and Windows 3.1.  Any help would be appreciated.  TIA
>
>James
>
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