MOL on PowerBook Wallstreet -

[Chris Dennis]

Hi folks

I'm getting closer to getting MOL (0.9.64) to run on my PowerBook G3
Series 233MHz (Wallstreet 1998), with MacOS 9.2.1.

There seems to be some confusion still (not all of it mine) about the
oldworld/newworld issue.  For example I've seen it written that "MacOS 9
is newworld" with the implication that I can run it in newworld mode. 
But my hardware is definitely oldworld (see
http://support.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_machines.html) whatever OS I
run.  The wallstreet does have some open firmware, but not enough OF
functionality to do newworld booting.

Nevertheless, I tried MOL in newworld mode by extracting a "Mac OS ROM"
file from "Ethernet Update 1.0".  I got as far as a happy mac, and then
the error message "This startup disk will not work on this Macintosh
model. Use the latest installer to update this disk for this model." 
Which is consistent.

"startmol --oldworld" with a rom-grabbed image from my machine seems to
start OK, but the screen stays black indefinitely, despite mol using
over 80% of my CPU.  The output is given below.

All the instructions I've seen talk about running old (pre 8.6) OSes on
oldworld machines.  Can anyone help me get MOL running 9.2.1 on my
oldworld PowerBook?

regards

Chris

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"startmol --oldworld" output:

Mac-on-Linux 0.9.64 Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Samuel Rydh
Starting MOL session 2
Config dir: /etc/mol
Data dir: /usr/share/mol/0.9.64
Session 2. Lockfile: /var/lock/mol-2
Debugger nub disabled
The session save/restore feature is disabled
OF device tree: oftrees/oftree.8500
Timebase frequency: 16.67 MHz
72MB RAM mapped at 0x40000000
Running in PowerPC G3 mode
Using ADB keycodes
Using nvram-image '/var/lib/mol/nvram.ow'
xvideo: X11 video depth 565
Video module 'xvideo' installed.
Running on VT 9.
Using usb mouse on /dev/input/mice
Cache enabled for console-video
Video module 'console_video' installed.

MODE:  640* 480, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE:  800* 600, depth 8,15,32   { 56.2, 60.3 } Hz
MODE: 1024* 768, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE: 1152* 864, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE: 1280*1024, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE: 1600*1200, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz

Starting in video mode 800*600, depth 15, 60.3 Hz  [offs:0, rb:1600]
Using /dev/dsp for sound output

HFS  images/moldisk.i MOL                <read-only>     0 MB 
HFS+ /dev/hda8        HD                 <read-only>  2048 MB BOOT

53c94 SCSI-driver installed (IRQs 12/0)
Could not register MESH SCSI unit. Need a second bus ??
Swim3 floppy driver installed
Hammerhead driver installed
4096K ROM mapped at 0x4fc00000 from 'rom/wallstreet.rom'

[at this point there's a black screen that doesn't change, despite a lot
of CPU activity.  so I pressed ctrl-C]

Signal INT
One more to kill emulator
cleaning up...
Terminating threads...
thread 'SWIM-thread' is active!
DONE

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