Re: Does MOL require HFS+ to boot?

Subject: Re: Does MOL require HFS+ to boot?
From: Dallas Blair (dabla@together.net)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 14:25:45 MDT

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Hello again!! ;)

Try 'umount /dev/sda6' which is your MacOS partition and see if that
works. I take it you're running a SCSI drive, right?

If you want to be able to do anything in MacOS while in MOL and the
drive is mounted, you will get a message that you are running in
read-only mode.

Dallas

>What do I need to umount? As far as I can tell I don't have anything
>mounted that I wouldn't need :-)
>
>/dev/sda5 on / type ext2 (rw)
>none on /proc type proc (rw)
>/dev/sda6 on /boot type hfs (rw)
>/dev/sda8 on /home type ext2 (rw)
>none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
>
>
>Do I need to _mount_ the mac HFS+ drive?
>
>
>Graeme
>
>
>
>On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:06:18 Dallas Blair wrote:
>> 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
>> happÿèXÿêXDATA
>ens.
>>
>> 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 pÿèXÿêXDATA
>oints 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
>>
>> --
>>
>> "A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog
>> without bricks tied to its head."
>>
>> - Bruce Lundberg

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