Subject: Re: still stuck. have an older G3...
From: Brice Ruth (brice@webprojkt.com)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2001 - 10:15:28 MST
Just a note to throw in the mixing pot:
I struggled and failed to get MOL to work with my install of MacOS 9.0.4
- I couldn't boot to disk or CD-ROM - neither using the ROM stripped
from the CD or my System Folder. I recently received MacOS 9.1 as part
of my ADC subscription and all of a sudden I was able to boot to
something resembling MacOS - first I booted to the CD-ROM using the new
ROM from the CD, then I tried booting to MacOS 9.0.4 using that same ROM
- while it did boot, I get system errors after it finished booting, so
that wasn't working. I just recently upgraded my disk to MacOS 9.1 and
now MOL works like a charm ... the only thing I still have to figure out
is networking :)
So - by my experiences, MacOS9.1 DOES work.
"Jeffry C. Nichols" wrote:
>
> >I have an older G3 tower with system 9.1. From this I take it I need a
> >ROM image (though I though it was system dependent and not machin
> >dependent -- until I upgraded to 9.1 and still hade no Mac OS Rom
> >file...). I got the ROM grabber but I'm not clear how it works or
> >what to do with it.
> >
> >Any help would really be appreciated.
>
> Hi Carolyn, first off, from everything that I read and experienced,
> OS 9.1 will NOT work. You will have to "downgrade" to 9.0.4 to get
> MOL to work properly. (Anyone with 9.1 running well, please correct
> me if I'm wrong). Also, the "older" G3 Macs (known as Old World) do
> not use a ROM file--that's why you have to "slurp" one off an
> installation disk (I use TomeViewer).
>
> I would suggest reloading OS 9.0 (clean install) and then upgrade to
> 9.0.4 or you will have problems with parts of 9.1 not working with
> 9.0.4 if you don't do a clean install (Sherlock is the best example
> of that).
>
> Now, as for the LINUX side, you need to get either the ROM image from
> the 9.0.4 disk (the application "TomeViewer" work well for that) or
> the "Ethernet Update" disk which has a slightly newer version of the
> Mac ROM file. You can find this on the Mac-On-Linux web site by the
> way.
>
> Next, you need to copy the "New World" ROM file to LINUX. I actually
> had to burn a CD with the ROM file on it since my Mac OS partition is
> in HFS+ (which LINUX cannot mount easily--unless you use something
> like "netatalk" to mount LINUX partitions on your Mac via Appletalk,
> but that's another issue altogether). To copy the file you would do
> the following (assuming the ROM file is on a CDROM disk)
>
> mount -t hfs /dev/cdrom /mnt
> strip_nwrom "/mnt/System Folder/Mac OS ROM" /usr/lib/mol/rom/rom.nw
>
> The part in parenthesis might be different depending on where the ROM
> file actually resides.
>
> Now, when you run "startmol" everything _should_ work.
>
> Good luck
>
> Jeff Nichols
>
> >
> >--Carolyn
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