Subject: Re: booting on CD from MOL
From: David Mackler (dmackler@netaxs.com)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 18:02:25 MDT
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 08:12:16AM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> >Hey all.
> >
> >I am trying to run MOL from a Sawtooth 400Mhz G4 running 2.2.15
> >kernal. My only Mac partition is a HFS + one so I stripped the ROM from a
> >9.0 CD (G4 boot CD) and tried to run MOL. MOL comes up with an erroring
> >about not being able to patch the kernal and comes up with some
> >"exceptions".
>
> Do you have the correct System.map in /boot (and is it called
> System.map or have a symbolic link to it called System.map)?
>
> If the System.map isn't the issue, you can save the errors to file:
> startmol >& mol_error.txt
Hmmm. When I rsync'd to 2.2.15pre4 (I think, pre-something), I had crashes
after the patching began. I solved it by applying the kernel patches
supplied in the mol rpm to my source and rebuilt the kernel. For some
odd reason, the kernel patching mechanism is rather finicky.
-- David Mackler <mailto:dmackler@netaxs.com> <http://www.netaxs.com/~dmackler/>
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