Subject: Re: mol not starting (anymore) on 9.1, PB G4
From: Quentin Mason (quentin-mason@cornell.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 21 2001 - 15:35:08 MDT
Hi,
> I have a PB G4 with SuSE 7.1 installed. The MOL that came with SuSE
> (0.9.53-8) did work with their 2.4.2 kernel albeit with a lot of instability
> problems. (MacOS is - must be - version 9.1 on this machine.)
Other users have reported vastly increased stability with the newer
versions.
> I have now switched to benh's 2.4.4-pre3 kernel and have recompiled MOL
> 0.9.57 from source, but I can't get it to run anymore. I see the smiling
> Mac, the welcome screen, sometimes I see parts of the boot process,
> sometimes I don't, and that's about it. I've included a typical error
> message with this message. Any ideas?
> MODE: 1152* 768, depth 8,15,32 { 0.0 } Hz
> Starting in video mode 1152*768, depth 32, 0.0 Hz [offs:0, rb:4608]
0 Hz does not sound good ? Have you run the mol video configurator ?
> Mapping GC at 80800000
> of_canon: /pci/@d/pci-ata@1/ata-4@0/disk@0 -- ''
> **** of_call_method: cmd 'get-key-map' ih: 00000001 (2/2) Args:
> *** nop_'interpret' [1,2] 401007B2
> of_open: node '//pci/pci-bridge/MacOnLinuxVideo:0' missing
> ************ WARNING, phandle == 0 ***********
> extra vclaim, virt: 009B1000, size 2F000
> **** of_call_method: cmd 'get-key-map' ih: 00000001 (2/2) Args:
> of_open: node '/pci/@d/pci-ata@1/ata-4@0/disk@0:5,\\:bear' missing
> **** of_call_method: cmd 'read' ih: 00116204 (4/2) Args: 00000200 00116204
> *** nop_'close' [1,0] 00116204
> Replacing old translation (EA 80816000, old-phys 0081E000)
> ********* of_quiesce *********
> AltiVec is disabled
> AltiVec is disabled
I would have thought that a PBG4 had altivec -- perhaps you missed this
line in the configuration file.
The other stuff could be nvram problems. You could try backing it up and
getting MOL to generate a new one.
HTH,
Q.
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