Howdy. I have a old laptop (toshiba 420 CDT, p1-100, 40 MB, 20 GB, ) that I would like to 
get working.
I however do not have a boot medium, so I have tried installing various OS's on a  hard 
drive and then transplanting them into the laptop. Under Windows it will not recognive the 
hd as a valid system disk. Under linux I get the following:

"L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 
40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 
40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 
40 40 40 40 40 40 40This BASIC was aborted,
because this machine has
no ROM BASIC.

Use Toshiba's BASIC"

I have played with lilo untilt the cows came home and started to mew telling me to ask for 
help.

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Robert James Wultsch III
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