Problems launching MOL

Ian Narcisi mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:59:52 -0600


hello,

  When I edited the molrc.osx option and then started mol (startmol, --os=
x, or
-1 [cdrom boot], yet during bootup it never was altered. It just kept boo=
ting
the same blks and never could find the ROM in OSX. I was using 0.9.65 on =
YDL
2.3. I removed the original mol from YDL, the added 0.9.65 and received t=
he
same problem Christian had. What is this debian package? Is this somethin=
g
that can be used with YDL?

David Paul BELANGER wrote:

> hello,
>
> If you are using Mac OS X, you need to edit molrc.osx instead, then
> run mol with the --osx option:
> startmol --osx
>
> David
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:57:25AM +0100, Christian Meyer wrote:
> > Hi there!
> >
> > I'm trying to get mol running on my machine.
> > My partition table looks like this:
> >
> > /dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                    63 @ 1
> > ( 31.5k)  Partition map
> > /dev/hda2               Apple_HFS Mac OS X           37748736 @ 64
> > ( 18.0G)  HFS
> > /dev/hda3         Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap              1600 @ 37748=
800
> > (800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
> > /dev/hda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /                    512000 @ 37750=
400
> > (250.0M)  Linux native
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > I've edited my molrc.macos file according to the layout.
> > When I'm starting mol, it finds my HFS+ partition but then says that =
it
> > cannot find any Mac OS RAM file.
> > I've read on your homepage that there's no ROM needed for OS X 10.2.x.
> >
> > that's the output:
> >
> > HFS  images/moldisk.i MOL                <read-only>     0 MB
> > HFS+ /dev/hda2        Mac OS X1          <read-write> 18432 MB BOOT
> > HFS  /dev/hda3        bootstrap          <read-write>    0 MB BOOT
> > ----> /dev/hda3 might be a boot-strap partition.
> > ------> /dev/hda5 is linux-mounted with write privileges.
> > ------> /dev/hda6 is linux-mounted with write privileges.
> > ------> /dev/hda7 is linux-mounted with write privileges.
> > ------> /dev/hda8 is linux-mounted with write privileges.
> > ------> /dev/hda9 is linux-mounted with write privileges.
> > No volumes found in '/dev/hdb'
> > No volumes found in '/dev/sda'
> > No volumes found in '/dev/sdb'
> >
> > Searching /dev/hda3 for a 'Mac OS ROM' file
> > /dev/hda3: No 'Mac OS ROM' file found
> >
> > Searching /dev/hda2 for a 'Mac OS ROM' file
> > /dev/hda2: No 'Mac OS ROM' file found
> >
> > Searching images/moldisk.im for a 'Mac OS ROM' file
> > images/moldisk.im: No 'Mac OS ROM' file found
> >
> > --- No bootable disk found ---
> > No newworld ROM was found
> > cleaning up...
> > ---> DHCP server not installed
> > Terminating threads...
> > DONE
> >
> > What's wrong?
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Christian Meyer
> >
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>
> ---
>
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>
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