Subject: Re: MOL on Powerbook 3400c
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 07:26:04 MST
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 07:20:10AM -0500, Bob Kehoe wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> Thanks for the last round of suggestions in my quest to run mol on
> my Powerbook 3400. I have tried several things but am still having
> problems.
>
> My set-up is the following. I have a Powerbook 3400/200 using
> Linux kernel 2.2.14-1.3.0bpmac patched with the 2.2.15 mol kernel patch.
> I am using mol-0.9.50. I have now installed Mac OS 9.0.4, instead of trying
> to use 8.0 as before. I have obtained the ROM file from the Mac OS CD and
> run strip_nwrom on it and placed it in the /usr/lib/mol/rom area. I
> then set the molrc file for new_world rom operation and pointing at the
> rom file.
>
> Unfortunately, I get the same error condition as I did when
> running Mac OS 8.0. There are then two complaints printed something like this:
>
> kernel-module version mismatch
> /usr/lib/mol/modules/mol.o was compiled for kernel
> version 2.2.17pre10-ben1 while this kernel is version
> 2.2.14-1.3.0bpmac
>
> kernel-module version mismatch
> /usr/lib/mol/modules/sheep_net.o was compiled for
> kernel version 2.2.17pre10-ben1 while this kernel is
> version 2.2.14-1.3.0bpmac
>
> Then things move on to the following:
>
> version 0.9.50
> Using resource file '/etc/molrc'
> Using MOL library directory '/usr/lib/mol'
> MOL kernel module 1.1.50
>
> Then the powerbook just completely hangs for several minutes. Then it
> reboots, presumably because Linux is being starved of cpu time.
>
You could try recompiling MOL using the headers of your kernel. If linux p
anics when the module is loaded, a header/module mismatch is the prime
suspect.
/Samuel
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