Subject: Re: MOL on Powerbook 3400c/200 (ie. 603ev)
From: Bob Kehoe (kehoe@rotse2.physics.lsa.umich.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 13:33:11 MDT
Hi Peter,
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 phandel@cise.ufl.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Bob Kehoe wrote:
>
> > I have attempted to install MOL on my Linux installation but am
> > having some difficulties. I have a Powerbook 3400c/200 (603ev) with MacOS
> > 8.0 on it. My Linux is LinuxPPC 2000 which has a 2.2.15pre3 kernel. I
> > have used the rom-grabber to obtain an image of the the old-world ROM
> > from the mother-board. I installed the mol-0.9.38 version which comes
> > with LinuxPPC 2000 and configured molrc but could not get the kernel to
> > patch at run-time. I guessed that 0.9.38 was a bad version of MOL from
> > the archive for this mailing list, so I have installed mol-0.9.50.
> > Unfortunately, I get the same error when I startmol -- it says it can't
> > patch the kernel. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> [snip]
>
> > ps. My understanding is that I may need to recompile the linux kernel
> > but my CD's don't have the linux source. Can somebody tell me where the
> > 2.2.15pre3 source is? Thanks again!
>
> The best thing to do would be to grab BenH's latest 2.2.18pre kernel:
> rsync -auvz penguinppc.org::linux-pmac-stable /usr/src/linux-2.2-stable
Thanks -- I'll try it. However, won't using a new kernel run the
risk of breaking some of the dependencies in other software?
Thanks,
Bob
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