On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Jim Kidd wrote:

> I am at home and have had a chance to try the 'built-in root filesystem'.
> When I boot a kernel in MacOS it boots up okay to a point.  When finished
> it issues a n error message about "boot device unknown".  It then asks for
> a root device.  The only possible choices are sd0a-g or cd0a-g.  It then
> asks for a dump device, which defaults to sd0b.  Its third and final
> question: what kind of file system.
> 
> I never could make it to the 'built-in root filesystem'.  How do you do it?

It takes a specially-prepared kernel. The src/distrib stuff does it (I
actually haven't myself). Since no ram disk image had been built into the
kernel, it didn't see the ramdisk...

Take care,

Bill