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- From: Mark Perrego <perregom@delphi.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Need Help w/ gateWay and BBGRam
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 21:16:53 -0500
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- X-To: Doug Cotton <doug.cotton@the-spa.com>
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- Doug Cotton <doug.cotton@the-spa.com> writes:
-
- >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.
- >
-
- Thanks for your thoughts. A few questions, however. Te gateWay manual states
- that gateWay boot disks must be made from unmoddified boot disks. From what
- you are saying, it seems you are telling me to ignore this. Yes? I just
- want to make sure, since installing MOuntBBGRam will modify the boot disk
- (although not perminantly - ie. it doesn't change the disk except that there
- is a file there that was not there before).
- What the MountBBGRam file does, according to the BBG manual, is to patch
- the GEOS 2.0 kernal to act like a GEOS 2.0r kernal. For example, if the
- I had GEOS 2.0r, I would have no need for the MountBBGRam file at all.
- Under the deskTop, I must use Configure 2.1r, Configure 2.1 will not work.
- This is why I tried the GRAMDisk driver as well as the RAMDisk driver (the
- BBGRam manual says to use RAMDisk).
- Since I can boot gateWay with the MountBBGRam file and the Ram driver in place
- as long as I don't have the BBGRam plugged in the back of the computer, I
- note the paragraph about Defective RAM expansion in the "What could go wrong"
- part of the gateWay manual. It states that gateWay does more thorough testing
- of the RAM expansion than GEOS does. When does this testing occur. I would
- assume it would be when the driver is installed. But I get past the driver
- installation and the Switcher installation. I doubt the RAM test is conducted
- in the middle of the screen being drawn (I get the menu, clock but nothing
- else). Can you tell me when the RAM check is done? I'd rather not send
- my BBG in for an unneccessary repair :-)
-
- Thank you for your help.
- - Mark :-)
- 128 at 20 Mhz?? BLESS YOU!! :-)
- perregom@delphi.com
- myp99@uno.cc.geneseo.edu
-