Error on Slack Install

peace · 08-07-2003, 12:49 PM

I'm installing Slackware 3.4 on an old 486 of mine (with minimal ram) and the install seems to go OK off floppies. I reboot when it tells me too and it gives me this error:

NO ROM BASIC

SYSTEM HALTED

I understand that this means I have no active partition selected. I formatted the entire harddrive and made the necessary filesystems using fdisk. How do I select an active partition during the Slack install? Thanks in advance.

georg9 · 08-07-2003, 01:55 PM

Selecting an active partition is not Slack install's job, it is your job.
You can use fdisk to set an active partition, command "a"
Normally that is the partition where your Slack is located.

Good Luck!

peace · 08-07-2003, 02:18 PM

Thanks for the reply.

The fdisk command 'a' was all that I needed. I made the partitions then wrote them to the disk, I guess I left out that part. Though I never remember having to "activate" any partitions when I was installing RH9. I'll try the install again today and see if it works out. Thanks!