Subject: Re: Ext2 volumes from MOL
From: Quentin Mason (quentin-mason@cornell.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 13:11:17 MDT
Hi,
I am afraid that I almost certain that this will work.
See my post to linuxppc-user and BenH's response.
http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-user/200006/msg01196.html
http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-user/200006/msg01198.html
<insert response>
-Tue, Jun 27, 2000, Quentin Mason <quentin-mason@cornell.edu> wrote:
->PS: I am in contact with a number of other people who also are having
->problems with MountX. This is only really necassary for rare MacOS
->occasions eg when running Maple or Mathematica, as I understand that MOL
->can use appleshare from linux's netatalk [although I have not set it up
->yet, and possibly needs *very* recent code from BenH].
-
-I've not updated MountX for a while... I probably has problem with recent
-evolutions of the ext2 filesystem format. I can't tell if I'll ever
-update it again unfortunately.
-
-If someone want to take over...
-
-Ben.
</insert>
I believe the problem is more than the partition type. I _have_
Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partition types and I get a complete freeze every time, I
tried about 10 times and it survived the boot just once, only to hang
immediately after I tried to open the MountX-volumes. However, instead of
using MountX 0,1.... as it used to with linuxppc 1999 Q3 it gives the
partition labels as reported by tune2fs / reported when you fsck your
drives.
I suspect this is related to the partition-labelling issue that has been
discussed on linuxppc-ser several times. I suspect that it may not be too
difficult to fix, as the reason that it is nolonger promoted is that it
is nolonger maintained. Unfortunately I do not have Codewarrior so I
cannot do anything about it myself.
Q.
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, James T. Platt wrote:
>
> >I downloaded Mountx today and it crashed my Imac with OS9, and 7200/90
> >with 8.1
> >and 7.5.5
> >
> >I put the Mount x in the extentions folder and then when I restarted it
> would
> >crash as soon as I touched my mouse or keyboard, or sooner :)
>
> Yes, That's what I got also. I also have a 7200/90 but with 9.0.4. MountX
> worked when my Linux partitions had the Apple_UNIX_SVR2 type but when I
> upgraded to LinuxPPC 2000 I also changed the partition types to Linux_PPC
> for no other reason than that it seemed like the right thing to do. After
> that, Mac OS would freeze on loading the MountX extention.
>
> When I get a larger hard drive, I am going to install LinuxPPC on my PB G3
> Mainstreet. I figure I will use the Apple_UNIX_SVR2 type partitions since
> Linux can use that (I think) and I will see if MountX works properly. I
> don't really want to risk changing the partition type on my 7200 since it
> would actually be a setback if I lost my Linux install there.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> James T. Platt
> james.platt@yale.edu
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Fri Aug 11 2000 - 13:15:25 MDT