MOL takes 100% CPU and never boots

Jeffrey Baker mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Sun, 5 May 2002 21:57:43 -0700


On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:11:59PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:57:36PM -0700, Jeffrey Baker wrote:
> > I googled around and searched the archives but didn't see this
> > problem.  I have install mol on my PowerBook G4 (1st rev), but it
> > doesn't boot.  It shows the grey screen with the happy mac icon, but
> > after that it just takes up 100% CPU all the time.  I left it for 20
> > minutes and it was still doing that.
> > 
> > MacOS is on /dev/hda9, which is also where MacOS X is installed.
> > The machine normally boots yaboot, which chooses between Linux or
> > MacOS.  MacOS is configured to boot MacOS X.  I haven't booted MacOS
> > 9 in ages, except in Classic.  My Linux is Debian unstable
> > distribution and kernel 2.4.18-pre4-ben0.
> 
> Next time, you might look at the list archives (mentioned at the bottom
> of each message you see on this list). But I'll be a pal and save you
> the search.

Oh boy, see, I thought that archive was broken because it only goes
back one month.  I searched it for "loop" and "looping" but got
nothing, that's why I came here.  Sorry for the noise, and thanks
for the answer!

-jwb