Re: Booting GS/OS from the GS Ramdisk?

[oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland)]

Labelas Enoreth writes:

>How can it be done, if it can?
>I tried the things I'd do to make a RAMdisk bootable on a mac, but it just
>beeps at me and says 'check startup device'. All the files are still there
>on RAM5 when I boot GSOS from a disk though. I'm using an AE GS ram card.
>don't remember the exact name this minute, except that it's similar to the
>Apple IIgs ram expander except that it has 3 rows of chips instead of 2.


Before you install abootable system on the RAMdisk you need to format it.
Although you can use the disk for file storage with the formating that is
done when GS/OS boots the boot blocks for ProDOS are not written to the
RAMdisk. That is why you can not boot from it if you just copy files or 
install a system on it without formating first.