Subject: Re: 603 with Recompiled Kernel still doesn't work
From: Jackson Damien (noveau99@mailandnews.com)
Date: Sat Jan 27 2001 - 12:26:12 MST
>Hi Jackson,
>
>> I have a Umax c600 (a 240 Mhz 603) with a Sonnet 300 Mhz G3 L2 Cache
>> Upgrade card and 112 megs of ram.
>> After disabling VM in the Mac OS and changing the type of the Sonnect
>> Crescendo extension from INIT to SCRI I was able to get a visible
>> speedup in LinuxPPC.
>
>I am glad that you have got a speed increase.
>
>> I was then able to successfully mount my Mac OS 8.5 installation CD
>> and strip the ROM file from it:
>>
>
>You CANNOT use MacOS 8.5 -- it _very clearly_ says this on the
>maconlinux.com webpage. This may be why it does not work.
I read on the from page that:
Boots MacOS 7.5.2 to 9.0.4 using a ROM image.
If there is something that I am doing wrong (stripping the wrong
image etc) I am unaware of it.
>
>> bash$ mount -t hfs /dev/cdrom /mnt
>> bash$ strip_nwrom "/mnt/System Folder/Mac OS ROM" /usr/lib/mol/rom/rom.nw
>
>You need the 8.6 ROM that can be downloaded from maconlinux.com.
Do I need this rom if I am still running 8.5?
>
>> bash$ patch -d /usr/src/linux -p0 < X
>
>This step only allows MOL to be enabled and does not automatically include
>it in the kernel.
>
>> Since this was the first time that I built the kernel, I followed the
>> included instructions:
>> bash$ cd /usr/src/linux
>> bash$ make clean
>> bash$ make xconfig (enable CONFIG_MOL)
>>
>> // this step I skipped, after consulting with on of my instructors - we
>> // believe it resets the previous xconfig step, but that may be my problem
>> // make clean
>
>You actually have to select the options as noted by another respondant.
>
>> // http://www.kernel.org and copying over the /include/asm-m68k
>> directory // to /usr/src/linux/include/asm-m68k it compiled
>> without errors.
>
>There is some asm-m68k source/headers needed for ppc machines. There was
>a discussion of this with the release of linuxppc 200 last year. A proper
>kernel source does not require any copying though...
How should I get the proper source then so I could recompile it with
support? Where should I download it from?
>The first time you make a kernel you have to link two or three directories
>together, I forget which. I believe that that should be done
>automatically with modern kernels though.
>
>> bash$ make
>make vmlinux.
>
>> I then copied the new newly compiled kernel:
>> bash$ /usr/src/linux/vmlinux
>> to MacOS and selected it with BootX. I also copied the newly created
>> System.map to the /boot directory and restarted the machine.
>
>Conventional to also make modules && make modules_install for any modules
>selected in your xconfig/menuconfig step
I didn't create any modules, and now it appears I no longer have
sound. Any suggestions on that?
> > I then tried to start MOL:
>>
>> bash$ startmol
>>
>> No dice. It complained about my machine having a 603 processor and
>> that I would not be able to run it without first patching the kernel.
>
>That pretty much means that the kernel you used did not include support
>for MOL... This would suggest that you did not enable MOL in the xconfig
>step. For me using menuconfig there is an additional main entry entitled
>MOL of Mac-on-Linux or so, and that needs to be enabled.
>
If you wouldn't mind checking out my other post, I'd appreciate your
comments on that.
> > Still the same error message. I have even tried getting some
>> precompiled kernels from this page
>> (http://linuxcare.com.au/paulus/kernels.html) without any success.
>
>It seems you were caught in a case of poor use of English - MOL talks
>about patching a running kernel, but simply "patching" the kernel source
>does not automatically include that "patch" into the compiled kernel --
>sorry.
Thanks!
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