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From: Mickey Lane <mlane@csi.compuserve.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: FTP/Telnet/BBS for Adaptec?  Need jumper docs for 1542B
Date: 25 Jan 1995 19:54:21 GMT
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> David Paigen <paigen@netcom.com> wrote:
> >Unfortunately, a) I am getting strange errors(*) and b) I
> >(*) "No basic in ROM installed",



I remember this one :-)

You are trying to boot with no disk partitions active.

(I assume MS-DOS)

Boot from floppy and use FDISK to make the primary partition on
drive zero active.