Subject: Re: grey screen (iMac DV, LinuxPPC Q4)
From: Brice Ruth (brice@webprojkt.com)
Date: Thu Feb 22 2001 - 12:48:53 MST
I'll let you know - no problem. Seems like a few people are having
these issues. It boggles my mind. I'm going to try upgrading kernels
and such ... guess I've got nothing better to do than try & screw up my
working LinuxPPC installation :)
-Brice
Kevin Bradley wrote:
>
> Brice,
>
> The problem that you are having sounds very similar to the one I am
> currently experiencing (see message "Still having problems with MOL on a
> G4"). I am trying to run MOL on SUSE Linux 7.0, and getting the same type
> of disk activity.
>
> If you are able to fix this problem in a way other than through this disk,
> please let me know how you solved it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brice Ruth" <brice@webprojkt.com>
> To: <mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:53 AM
> Subject: grey screen (iMac DV, LinuxPPC Q4)
>
> > I've been perusing the list archives and I've seen a few users report
> > this problem, but no solutions ... so, I'll try again :)
> >
> > I recently installed LinuxPPC Q4 and I'm running the pre-installed mol
> > (I downloaded the one from maconlinux.org and rpm reported that it was
> > older than the one already installed)
> >
> > I've edited the /etc/molrc file to list my MacOS partition first
> > (/dev/hda11) and my cdrom second (/dev/cdrom). I also have the line
> > 'mount_mol_disk: no' added as was recommended by someone on the list.
> > When I run startmol, I get the following output:
> >
> > Mac-on-Linux 0.9.54, (C) 1997-2000 Samuel Rydh <samuel@ibrium.se>
> >
> > Version 0.9.54
> > MOL kernel module 1.1.54
> > Resource file: /etc/molrc
> > Library directory: /usr/lib/mol
> > Using Linux keycodes
> > OF device tree: oftrees/oftree.nw
> > 48MB RAM mapped at 0x20000000
> > Running in PowerPC 750 mode (G3)
> > DEC frequency: 24 MHz, 249:10 mticks/usec
> > Using nvram-image 'nvram/nvram.nw'
> > Video module 'xvideo' installed.
> > Running on VT 8.
> > Using usb mouse on /dev/usbmouse
> > Cache enabled for console-video
> > Video module 'console_video' installed.
> >
> > MODE: 640* 480, depth 8,32 { 0.0 } Hz
> > MODE: 800* 600, depth 8,15,32 { 99.9 } Hz
> > MODE: 1024* 768, depth 8,15,32 { 75.0 } Hz
> > MODE: 1152* 864, depth 8,15,32 { 59.9 } Hz
> > MODE: 1280*1024, depth 8,32 { 0.0 } Hz
> > MODE: 1600*1200, depth 8,32 { 0.0 } Hz
> >
> > Starting in video mode 800*600, depth 32, 99.9 Hz [offs:0, rb:3200]
> > Ethernet Interface (port 1) 'sheep-<eth0>' @ FE:FD:DE:AD:BE:EF
> >
> > HFS disk: 644 MB, /dev/cdrom [read-only] start: 928,
> > len: 1320024
> >
> >
> > Mapping GC at 80800000
> > Starting emulation...
> >
> > of_canon: /pci/@d/pci-ata@1/ata-4@0/disk@0 -- ''
> > 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: 0011593C (4/2) Args: 00000200
> > 0011593C
> > *** nop_'close' [1,0] 0011593C
> > Replacing old translation (EA 80816000, old-phys 0081E000)
> > ********* of_quiesce *********
> > <*> kOpenCommand
> > <*> Unkown gestalt selector 'nmrg'
> > <*> Unkown gestalt selector 'dvrf'
> > <*> Unkown gestalt selector 'ofpt'
> > Signal INT
> > One more to kill emulator
> > cleaning up...
> > Terminating threads...
> > DONE
> >
> > All I get is a grey screen and no disk activity. If I comment out my
> > hda11 blkdev in order to boot from the CDROM, the results are the same
> > (and the output above is actually from just that - the only difference
> > to using hda11 is that the disk is reported before /dev/cdrom)
> >
> > I have a slot-loading iMac DV w/ MacOS 9.0.4 and 384MB RAM. I copied
> > the ROM file from the 'Software Install' CDROM - as per the instructions
> > on maconlinux.org. What's wrong here?
> >
> > Any help is always appreciated!
> > Sincerest regards,
> > Brice Ruth
> >
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