MOL runs, but disk is locked?

[Ken Grunke]

Running 8.6 and YDL 2.2 partitions on one SCSI disk in a PM7500/200 old world 
machine, MOL works after putting the MacOS ROM from a System 8.6 update CD 
into the System folder.
I'm using the 2.4.18-0.9a kernel and MOL 0.9.60-5a and am able to start MOL 
with the -a switch, but not without.

First off, I would include all the Konsole messages pertaining to opening MOL 
here, but I'm a newbie and need someone to tell me where to find the log 
file. Not in var/log/messages, but where?

So, MOL starts up fine, seems to boot up faster than the "real thing". 
Problem is I can't save or trash anything, because the disk is locked 
according to the Konsole message which I look at after shutting down MOL.
Here are just a few lines from the Konsole that are pertinent, skipping over 
ones that give positive info:

Session 0, Lockfile '/var/lock/mol-0'
The session save/restore feature is disabled
--
Unknown processor id (0009)
Running in PowerPC G3 mode
Property 'cpu/bus-frequency' is missing!
--
No video mode match the default one.
Starting in video mode 640*480, depth 8, 0,0 Hz [offs;0, rb:640]
Ethernet Interface (port 1) 'sheep-<eth0>' @ FE;FD;DE;AD;BE;EF
--
In the list of drives searched for, my MacOS partition is listed correctly, 
and as read/write.
But at the end of the listing, it says the disk is locked, and says it is 
read-only.

I did the basic editing of molrc, changing the permission of the HFS volume 
with MacOS to read/write. But why is the partition locked, and how to unlock 
it so I can write to it?

I'll be able to give specific info more easily after figuring out how to get 
the Konsole output as text, if someone can give me a tip on that please.

thanks,

Ken