Subject: Re: ELF ?
From: Donovan Warren (aramis_@yellowdog-linux.bacil.dyndns.org)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 23:16:57 MDT
On Thursday 07 June 2001 09:30, Bill Fink wrote:
> On Thu Jun 07 2001, Bacil D. Warren wrote:
> > After the following:
> >
> > hpmount /dev/sda7
> > hpcd "System Folder"
> > hpcopy "Mac OS ROM" /usr/lib/mol/rom/rom.nw
> > hpumount
> >
> > And then editing the molrc to point to the right device, whenever I type
> > startmol I get a terminal window, which goes full screen, and then dies
> > with a message that rom/rom.nw isn't an ELF?
> >
> > What the heck does that mean? What can I do to correct it (or, what did I
> > do wrong?)
>
> Hi,
>
> That's because the friendly YDL folks forgot at least one important step
> in their instructions for setting up MOL with YDL 2.0, and that's that
> you have to run strip_nwrom on the Mac OS ROM file:
>
> strip_nwrom Input_File_Name Output_File_Name
>
> That should get you past the rom.nw isn't an ELF error.
>
> -Bill
Oddly enough, there doesn't appear to _be_ a strip_nwrom binary installed.
This, perhaps, is why they left it out of the instructions ... I just find it
hard to comprehend how this makes it out as a paid release with missing parts
and installer bugs. Maybe my expectations are too high.
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