Bug report for new MacOS X compilation

[ted bonkenburg]

Hi Sam (Bayer),

It looks like you are trying to boot os x on mol.  I've only managed to 
boot and install OS 9 so far.  Also, are you trying to boot your actual 
os x boot partition?  I wouldn't recommend that.  I think we should try 
getting os x to boot off cdrom first.  Anyway, in case it helps, here 
is how I got OS 9 working...

In order to boot off my Mac OS 9 cd, I created a symlink for 
/dev/cdrom, even though I figured out later I probably could have just 
edited /etc/mol/molrc.macos.  Anyway, my symlink:

/dev/cdrom -> /dev/disk1s1

Then ./startmol --newworld --cdboot

This works for my iBook, where disk1 is the cdrom drive.

Once I could boot the cd, I needed somewhere to install OS 9.  Since my 
iBook has a single partition and I don't want to mess anything up, I 
used a file as a virtual disk.  I created a 500 MB zero-filled file 
called 'molvdisk'.  Then I edited /etc/mol/molrc.macos, modifying the 
"blkdev: /dev/hda..." line to be:

blkdev:	/Users/ted/molvdisk	-force -rw -whole

That's all the changes I did to my molrc.macos file.  At this point I 
booted the OS 9 cd and installed on the virtual disk.  From then on I 
boot off the molvdisk.  I haven't gotten networking to work yet.

I hope this helps.  Please note that I haven't tried os x yet.  I tried 
booting off a .iso I have of OpenDarwin but that didn't work.  I think 
we'll have to give Samuel more time to work on it :-)

ted

On 22 Mar, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Sam Bayer wrote:

>> From: ted bonkenburg <ted@inaddrany.com>
>> Subject: Re: Bug report for new MacOS X compilation
>> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:17:00 -0800
>> To: mol-devel@lists.maconlinux.org
>> Reply-To: mol-devel@lists.maconlinux.org
>>
>> Hi Samuel,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.  I now have mac os 9.1 installed on a 500 mb 
>> disk
>> image.  HFS+ does *not* support sparse files, which is kind of a
>> bummer.  I'll play around with mol running on os x a bit more.  I look
>> forward to when the os x version is ready for official release :-)
>>
>> I don't know if you've seen this, but when I was booting off the os 
>> 9.1
>> install cd, I got a lot of
>>
>> ">> os_seek error"
>>
>> messages even though it did eventually boot fine.  This seems to be
>> coming from the OpenFirmware stage of boot.
>>
> Hi Ted -
>
> I'm surprised that you were able to get MOL to boot from the thread I 
> started, because I haven't succeeded yet. Here's what I get (note that 
> my boot disk according to df is /dev/disk1, and /dev/rdisk1 according 
> to pdisk; they both behave the same):
>
> # ./startmol -X
> Running from the source tree.
> Mac-on-Linux 0.9.70-rc2 [Mar 20 2004 21:14]
> Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh
> Starting MOL session 1
> Using timebase frequency 24.932 MHz from /etc/molrc
> Locking RAM
> Running in PowerPC 750 mode, 96 MB RAM
> Warning: Using hardcoded clock frequency (350 MHz)
> Timebase: 24.93 MHz, Bus: 99.72 MHz, Clock: 350 MHz
> ---> Failed opening '/dev/input/mice': No such file or directory
> OHCI USB controller registered
> Could not open '/var/local/mol/x11.kbd'
> Video driver(s): [xvideo]
>
>      640* 480, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>      800* 600, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1024* 768, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1152* 864, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1280*1024, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1600*1200, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>
> ---> Invalid netdev flag '-tun'
> find_packet_driver: Error
> MOL SCSI controller registered
>
>     <No SCSI Devices>
>
> ----> (disk_open) Opening /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory
> ----> (disk_open) Opening /dev/rdisk1: Device busy
>
>
> >> ==================================================
> >> MacOS X Boot Loader 0.9.70-pre1
> >> SyncRead: error
> >> SyncRead: error
> >> --> Boot loader failure: No bootable disk found
>
> cleaning up...
> Terminating threads...
> DONE
>
> If you could send me your MOL output, and perhaps your MOL settings 
> from /etc/mol/molrc.osx and /etc/mol/molrc.macos, that would be super.
>
> Thanks in advance -
> Sam Bayer
>
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