[ale] I killed my laptop

[John Wells]

I had this message on my old 435CDS.  I *think* I
fixed it by doing a low level format of the drive.  If
I remember correctly, I couldn't find a llf utility
for the toshiba drive...ended up getting one from
maxtor and running it. 

Don't really know the implications of not using a
specific vendor's llf utility...it seems to be working
fine now.

Good luck.

John

--- Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at mediaone.net> wrote:
> Jay -
> 
> That cryptic message is actually a vestige from
> long, long ago - from
> the days when micros had a BASIC interpreter in ROM
> in lieu of an
> operating system.  
> 
> I think it means that your hard drive is not
> available - the BIOS is not
> finding an operating system.  
> 
> Did you start the installation with floppies?  If
> so, then something
> must have gone wrong since the start of the install
> for floppy-boot to
> not work now.  
> 
> Does tomsrtbt work?  If so, what does dmesg say
> about fd0 and /dev/hda?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> Jay Fox wrote:
> > 
> > I tried to install Slackware 7 on a old Toshiba
> Satellite 205CDS.  The install went smoothly
> > until I was instructed to remove the CD and
> reboot.  Now when the machine comes up I get the
> > message:  This BASIC was aborted because this
> machine has no ROM BASIC.  Use Toshiba's BASIC.
> > 
> > No command prompt.  It will not boot from a floppy
> or CD.  Anyone have any suggestions?
> > Thanks in Advance,
> > --Jay Fox,  on 12/5/2001
> > 
> >
>
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