#: 13892 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    06-Jan-92  23:31:45
Sb: #boot with ramdisk
Fm: BRUCE BAKER 73747,3137
To: all

Sb: boot with ramdisk Fm: Bruce Baker To: all

I recently uploaded a combination /r0 - Rammer package to this SIG. It's a
ramdisk configured to match a single sided 35 track floppy, with the Rammer
driver to go with it. I figured that a new os-9er with a hardware setup like
mine would find it useful.
  Now I have a problem. I can't seem to get a boot disk with the combination to
boot! I put /r0 in the Config disk MODULES dir as r0_35s.dd and rammer as
rammer.dr BUT when I ran config, I got a "unable to link REL" message. When I
use os9gen, things SEEM to go well, but the finished disk fails on the boot
try.
   The /r0 - rammer combo works FINE on my system. I merged the two as
"ramdisk" and put it in my CMDS dir. I load it and iniz /r0, it formats in
about 15 seconds, and I can do all the cool ramdisk tricks with it, including
backing up my system disk to ramdisk, chx'ing to /r0/cmds and executing cmds
from there, etc.  I'm really puzzled by the bootfile problem.

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