MOL 0.9.64 on an oldworld mac clone

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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 05:52:26PM -0400, Allan Fields wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've had some amount of luck with MOL after I grabbed a ROM image using the 
> handy (and surprisingly simple) ROM Grabber tool.  I first attempted to use 
> the TomeViewer approach, but that ROM didn't work. 

You can (newworld) boot from the MacOS install CD and install MacOS from
within MOL to a free partition (or to a disk-image).

> Also, running w/o a ROM image didn't work on this machine.

No... your system folder won't contain a NewWorld ROM.

> This machine won't boot using any of the Open Firmware booters 
> and I'm wondering if the ROMs aren't of a special design versus an
> Apple 9500 ROM set.  (MOL bootstrapping/initialization takes 
> about 10-20 seconds on this machine.)
That is, it worked if you commented out the oftree line?

> MOL works (and on a couple of tries was very usable [see screenshots]) 
> although there are stability problems

There are some stability problems in the oldworld setup. I strongly
suggest you use newworld booting...

> and at some points there are SCSI errors (scsi-bus: Going busfree...; 
> Could not register MESH...) and invalid 

These are harmless.

> system calls (Unsupported csop XX...).

Also harmless.

> Other problems include mouse errors with window focus and shading, controls 
> not being clickable (interfaced as USB mouse), total mouse button lockups, 
> network applications that tend to freeze up but can sometimes still be 
> force-quit, clock stalls, sound output freezing Mac OS, and general stability 
> issues with some mac applications.

I believe there is a problem with the interrupt handling in the oldworld
setting.

Cheers,

/Samuel