Re: [TCLUG:2679] PC error message

[Richard Seymour <rseymour@anarchysoftware.com>]

Correct. What you need to do is boot from a bootable floppy and
repartition your hard drive, adding a bootable partition.

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Luke Francl wrote:
> The earliest true-blue PCs had a BASIC
> interpreter built in, just like many other home
> computers those days. Even today, the Master
> Boot Record (MBR) code on your hard disk
> jumps to the BASIC ROM if it doesn't find any
> active partitions. Needless to say, there's no
> such thing as a BASIC ROM in today's
> compatibles....

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