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- From: doug.cotton@the-spa.com (Doug Cotton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Need Help w/ gateWay and BBGRam
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 23:28:27 -0500
- Organization: Creative Micro Designs, Inc.
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- In article <xhKl-Qi.perregom@delphi.com>, Mark Perrego
- <perregom@delphi.com> wrote:
-
- > Hello.
- > I got gateWay 128 the other day and I'm trying to set it up with my FD-2000,
- > 1571, and my 1Meg BBGRam. The 1571 worked right away. The FD worked after I
- > got the new device drivers from Delphi. I still can't get the BBGRam to work,
- > though. I have the drivers in the right positions, and I have the MountBBGRam
- > file placed before LAUNCH (like it says in the BBG manual). But it will not
- > boot up!
-
- > Is it a problem with the MountBBGRam file?
-
- > I made the boot disk by making it for the 1571 only and then adding
- > drives because the manual says not to put AUTO-EXEC files (like MountBBGRam)
- > on the boot disk until you make sure it works.
-
- In this case, if it's going to work at all, I suspect you'll have to boot
- with a GEOS disk that contains MountBBGRam when making your gateWay boot
- disk. As I recall, gateWay's support for GEORAM (thus BBGRam) was based on
- making your gateWay boot disk after booting with a GEORAM version of GEOS
- (GEOS 2.0r). If you're using a stock GEOS boot disk, then the GEOS Kernal
- being used to create the gateWay boot disk won't have the proper routines
- for accessing the BBGRam. I suspect that MountBBGRam patches these
- routines into the stock GEOS Kernal.
-
- This is only a suggestion, however, as we have no experience with the
- BBGRam or its utilities. I had heard that the utilities were written by
- the original author of gateWay (Paul Bosacki), but this won't necessarily
- guarantee successful operation with gateWay since a second author (Jim
- Collette) changed a lot of the original routines and methods in his
- rewrite of the system.
-
-
- Doug Cotton
- E-mail: doug.cotton@the-spa.com
-
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