Problems getting mol to boot linux - help, I need a HOWTO

[David Richardson]

Does anyone have a primer on getting MOL 0.9.64 to
boot linux?

I think I have it, but the keyboard doesn't work
right, and the mouse might not either for all I know.

Here's my setup:
Host system:  Yellow Dog 2.0 with kernel 2.4.18 and
other upgrades.
MOL:  0.9.64 stock with the following changes ("diff
-u" format, /etc/mol/original/xxx are stock versions,
changed files are in /etc/mol):

---cut here---
--- molrc.video Wed Jul 17 21:09:18 2002
+++ original/molrc.video        Wed Jul 17 21:05:17
2002
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 enable_console_video:  yes
 
 start_on_console:      no              # switch to
console initially
-autoswitch_console:    no              # allow
automatic switching to console
+autoswitch_console:    yes             # allow
automatic switching to console
 
 #fb_modes:             /etc/fb.modes   # extra video
modes for molvconfig
 
--- molrc.input Wed Jul 17 23:55:25 2002
+++ original/molrc.input        Wed Jul 17 21:05:17
2002
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 #       195  PowerBook Titanium, iBook
 #       200  JIS USB Keyboard
 
-keyboard_id:           200
+keyboard_id:           5
 
 
 #      Older kernels in general use ADB keycodes.
MOL tries to auto-detect
--- molrc.linux Thu Jul 18 09:41:10 2002
+++ original/molrc.linux        Wed Jul 17 21:05:17
2002
@@ -20,14 +20,11 @@
 
 # Debian installer (session 4)
 ifeq ${session} 4 {
-       initrd:        
/mnt/cdrom/install/ramdisk-x11.image.gz
-       cmdline:        "root=/dev/ram0 
ramdisk_size=32000 init=/bin/bash"
-#      cmdline:        "root=/dev/hda15 ro
init=/bin/bash"
-       kernel:         /mnt/cdrom/install/vmlinux
-#      kernel:         /boot/vmlinux
+       initrd:         /BK/root.bin
+       cmdline:        "root=/dev/ram
ramdisk_size=8192"
 
-       linux_disk:     /dev/cdrom -ro
-       linux_disk:     /dev/hda16 -rw
+       #disk:          /dev/cdrom -ro
+       #linux_disk:    /BK/debian -rw
 }
 
 # MOL support from initrd (session 5)
---cut here---

/dev/hda16 is a blank ext2 partition.  /dev/cdrom is
the Yellow Dog 2.0 install CD.  I EXPECT this to boot
into the X11 installer.  In fact, it boots to a
text-only license screen (I assume it's part of the
X-based installer ramdisk) that I can't get past
because my keyboard won't work.

Please cc me a reply directly, I read the mol list
only every few days.

-David            davidwr.geo@
 Richardson       yahoo.com

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