Re: NO ROM BASIC

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
5 Dec 1998 07:45:41 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.SGI.3.96A.981204130939.27049B-100000@umbc7.umbc.edu>
By author: Josh Newton <jnewto4@umbc.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Konstantyn Prokopenko wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm new in Linux and I've got a problem compiling a kernel.
> > I have dual PENTIUM II motherboard with 128 Mb memory runing Red Hat
> > Linux. I compiled the 2.1.128 Linux kernel using:
> >
> > make config
> > make dep
> > make bzImage
> > make install
> >
> >
> > Then I rebooted. When it starts, it goes to 40 column mode and
> > says "NO ROM BASIC"
>
> This is evidence of a _really_ serious crash; the last time I saw
> this error message was about 6 years ago on a 386 when a DOS program
> crashed hard. All I can tell you is to try make config; make dep; make
> clean; make zImage. Then install the new kernel by hand (if you're using a
> boot loader).
> Make sure you do a make clean in there; this may be the result of
> a previous incomplete compile.
>

Not necessarily; it is evidence that the bootup is screwed. Odds are
that his LILO configuration is somehow wedged.

-hpa

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