Mol on 603 : early boot with kernel 2.4.18

[Anne et Bertrand]

Le 2002.07.11 14:24, samuel@ibrium.se a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:35:39PM +0200, Anne et Bertrand wrote:
> > It's better with the 2.4.18-6.1 kernel : mol now boots, but is
> > infinitly looping with a friendly mac screen at early boot of MacOS.
> >
> > Here is the terminal output of startmol --test :
> >
> > Config dir: /etc/mol
> > Data dir: /usr/share/mol/0.9.64
> >...
> > <*>  ******************************
> >   *    Self-test successful    *
> >   ******************************
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> > And here is the log of startmol :
> >
> > Mac-on-Linux 0.9.64 Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Samuel Rydh
> > Config dir: /etc/mol
> > ************ WARNING, phandle == 0 ***********
> > ********* of_quiesce *********
> > >>> Unimplemented RTAS 'set-time-of-day' (7/1)
> >    000007D2   00000007   0000000A   00000016   00000021   00000006
> 
> > 00000000 <*> kOpenCommand
> > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> > cleaning up...
> > Terminating threads...
> > DONE
> 
> Looks good too. Have you tried booting from the install CD?
> 
> What version of MacOS are you running? I would guess on 8.6
> from the log output.

My fault, sorry :  I was trying to boot mol from the rom in the System 
folder of Macos. Mac OS boots OK in mol if I use rom-1.6. And it seems 
to run very good.



> > And finally here is the output of startmol --linux
> >
> > Mac-on-Linux 0.9.64 Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Samuel Rydh
> > ----> (disk_open) Opening /BK/debian: No such file or directory
> > Disk /dev/sda7                           <read-only>   500 MB
> > Linux commandline: root=/dev/mol
> > Mapping GC at 80800000
> > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> > cleaning up...
> > Terminating threads...
> > DONE
> 
> The linux console only works properly in depth mode 24.
> Moreover, you need a mol-patched kernel in order to
> mount filesystems etc. You should be able to see the early
> boot sequence though (if you use a standard 2.4.19 kernel
> with BootX support).

Mol-patched ? Does this mean a 2.2 kernel modified to let mol patch it 
at runtime (if I remember well the old days of LinuxPPC...)

> Cheers,
> 
> /Samuel
> 
> 


Thanks for your very usefull work.


Bertrand dekoninck.