Subject: Re: Does MOL require HFS+ to boot?
From: Dallas Blair (dabla@together.net)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 14:06:18 MDT
Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I seem to have gotten similar messages
when I was first running MOL, also. I think what is causing so many
problems is that maybe the drives aren't being unmounted before
starting MOL. Try starting after a umount command and see what
happens.
Regards,
Dallas Blair
>On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:49:03 Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> >Graeme Rae wrote:
>> > > I'm guessing as linux can't read this when mol tries to boot, it just
>sits
>> > > and spins it's happy mac wheels.
>> > >
>> > > Is this what I've been banging my head against for a week?
>> >
> > >That must be something different. I can boot from an HFS+, but remember
>> >that you cannot mount HFS+ under linuxppc. Eduard.
>>
>> What ROM are you using- and is your /etc/molrc set up so that the
>> boot volume is read/write (opposed to read-only)?
>>
>>
>I've used three different ROMs - the one from the Linux2000 install CD,
>one from my Mac System FolÿèXÿêXDATA
>der, and one extracted from the Tome from the
>apple update disk. All three were stripped and put in /usr/lib/mol/rom
>
>All of these give the same results.
>
>I have the following line in my molrc file:
>
>blkdev /dev/hda6 -rw
>
>This points to my 3.9 gig internal HFS+ drive. ( checked with pdisk -l)
>
>I have moved the location of the blkdev line to the front and the back
>of the
>list of blkdevs to affect load order to no effect.
>
>The boot process runs - I get the gray mac window up, the happy mac
>appears and
>then it just sits there....
>
>The last part of the output is:......
>
>Mapping GC at 80800000
>Starting emulation...
>
>RTAS instantiated at 00004000
>************ WARNING, phandle == 0 ***********
>********* of_quiesce *********
>>>> Unimplemented RTAS 'set-time-of-day' (7/1)
> 000007D0 00000004 0000000C 0000000E 00000036 0000000D
>00000000
><*> kOpenCommand
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