MOL runs, but disk is locked?

[Joe Villari]

You probably have your HFS MAC partion mounted. As root:

umount /dev/hda9 [or whatever your MAC OS partion is, the one you 
made rw in molrc]

then startmol and your you should be fine.

This worked for me

Joe

>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
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