Mol on 603 : early boot with kernel 2.4.18

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On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:26:31AM +0200, Anne et Bertrand wrote:
> > > 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...)

No... what I mean is that MOL-specific drivers must be added
to the kernel which is to run within MOL. These drivers are
in the BK tree http://mol.bkbits.net:8080/ldev.

Currently, the drivers are in the form of modules but I'll put
together a kernel patch shortly.

/Samuel