No ROM BASIC is an old message used from back in the day when, if a
computer couldn't find a boot medium they would boot to a basic
interpreter where you could write basic programs.  The roms were dumped
but the bioses still supported the feature so you get the no ROM BASIC
message on some bioses.

I would double check the hd detection in the bios and make sure they are
both setup the same.  You should have little to no problems
transplanting a hard drive with Linux on it into another computer as
long as both are working right.  It seems that it is not detecting the
boot sector of the hard drive correctly.  make sure it is all setup the
same on both systems.

Hope this helps some
Bill Warner


On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 07:04, Bart Garst wrote:
> I googled for 'Lilo "no ROM BASIC"' and got quite a few hits.
> This is a partition issue. You must have an active primary partition.
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> Bart
> 
> 
> >>>
> Howdy. I have a old laptop (toshiba 420 CDT, p1-100, 40 MB, 20 GB, )
> that I
> would like to
> get working.
> I however do not have a boot medium, so I have tried installing various
> OS's
> on a  hard
> drive and then transplanting them into the laptop. Under Windows it will
> not
> recognive the
> hd as a valid system disk. Under linux I get the following:
> 
> "L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
> 40
> 40 40 40 40 40
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
> 40
> 40 40 40 40 40
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
> 40
> 40 40 40 40 40
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40This BASIC was aborted,
> because this machine has
> no ROM BASIC.
> 
> Use Toshiba's BASIC"
> 
> I have played with lilo untilt the cows came home and started to mew
> telling
> me to ask for
> help.
> 
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