on 9/3/00 10:50 PM, Drew Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> " (Duo/2400 List)" wrote:
>
>> I rebooted. It worked! I run Disk First Aid off of the RAM disk, select my
>> main drive that needs the minor repairs, and I get the dialogue that says I
>> can't repair that drive because it's either the start-up disk, has open
>> items, or has file sharing active. As far as I can tell, none of those
>> things are going on.
>>
>> Did I forget to install something on the RAM disk?
>
> Yes the RAM disk will work to boot up. . BUT. . there are some things that you
> cannot do to a Start-up Disk. Ever try Norton�s Speed Disk or have Disk Doctor
> tell
> you you have problems, but, it cannot repair them -because it is a Start-up
> Disk?
>
> That is why you need to hook the PB up to a Desktop computer, via SCSI to do
> those
> things that you cannot do to a Start-up Disk. Just because you were able to
> boot up
> the computer using the RAM Disk, it does not mean that the RAM Disk is the
> �Startup
> Disk�. The only way you can fix some things on a single hard drive computer is
> to
> physically attach it to another computer -as an aux hard drive -and have that
> computer�s hard drive be the Start-up Disk.. sorry
> --
>
> Captain Drew
Ummm... Once you have a Sys. Folder and other s/w in the RAM disk, shouldn't
you just select the RAM disk in the StartupDisk control panel, then restart.
The HD should no longer be the startup disk. (I do this sometimes on my
desktop machines when I want to do some repair work...) But then, RAM disks
seem to work differently on Powerbooks than they do on desktop Macs -- for
one thing, my desktop Mac doesn't seem to have the option to save the
contents of the RAM disk.
Another alternative would be to download the latest version of AppDisk and
then turn the RAM disk off in Memory CP. I'm pretty sure AppDisk will
handle the change over to having it be the startup disk.
- Eric.
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