Re: Flashboot Problems

[ludowick@aol.com (Ludowick)]

>I have a ROM 1 gs with 4mb of ram. I tried using flashboot to boot off a
>1024k ramdisk, but after the initial boot screen, the system halts with a
>blank screen. When I tried to manually boot from a ramdisk, well... see
>above message.
>
>

I'm pretty sure (I haven't used it in years) that Flashboot needs the RAM disk
to be in 800K chunks (800, 1600, or 2400K).

I think the procedure was boot the system from a floppy, run Flashboot to prep
the RAM disk, copy the System Disk files to the RAM disk, run Flashboot again
to save the Image disks, then use those Image disks to boot your IIGS.  I'll
try to dig it up tomorrow and try it out.  I used it for years with no problems
I can remember, other than slow boot speed (any floppy system has this
problem).