Subject: Re: Trouble getting MOL running.
From: Erick Schmidt (eschmidt@patebonding.com)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 08:07:58 MDT
Rog:
Thanks for the advice and I would like to take you up on getting the ROM
file from you, if it isn't too much trouble.
Erick
> From: Roger Blum <rogerogerb@sk.sympatico.ca>
> Reply-To: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 18:34:07 -0400
> To: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Subject: Re: Trouble getting MOL running.
>
> Erick Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> I have installed 9.50 and am running SuSE Linux for the PPC.
>>
>> When I try to start MOL it patches the kernel but then just gives me a black
>> screen. I can switch back to X-Windows and close the X-term but MOL never
>> starts.
>>
>> A brief on my hardware/setup. I am running it on a Blue and White G3 with
>> two hard drives. My startup disk is where Linux is installed with a small
>> partition for the fake system folder for yaboot. The other drive is where
>> the MacOS is installed.
>>
>> I have set the video in /etc/molrc to 1024*768 with a depth of 8. As well, I
>> have tried hda7,hdb7,hdc7, and hdd7 for the device.
>>
>> Thanks for your support.
>>
>> eschmidt@patebonding.com
>
> I have a similar setup, with two drives, and got the same results you
> did
> until I used the 1.6 ROM, which I downloaded from Apple's web site.
> I had tried both the 1.8 and 1.8.1 ROMS with no success.
>
> Do not worry that you are using a version of ROM in /usr/lib/mol that
> is different from what's in your Mac's System Folder.
>
> If you have trouble finding the 1.6 ROM, please email me and I'll send
> you a copy of mine.
>
> Here is the way I configured my drives:
>
> blkdev: /dev/hda5 -rw
> blkdev: /dev/hdb5 -rw
>
> hda5 is the MacOS drive, and hdb5 is the root partition of the Linux
> drive.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Rog
>
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