MOL on Powerbook G3's

Paris Pender mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:33:12 -0500 (EST)


Hi,

Ok, I finally got back to this, and I tried following your instructions in 
the howto, but I still can't get it to work.  I get the following output 
from MOL when I try to run it:

Mac-on-Linux 0.9.65 Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Samuel Rydh
Config dir: /etc/mol
Data dir: /usr/share/mol/0.9.65
Loading Mac-on-Linux kernel module:
   /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65/modules/2.4.18-0.8a/mol.o
Warning: loading /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65/modules/2.4.18-0.8a/mol.o will taint 
the kernel: forced load
Creating the /dev/sheep_net device node.
Loading SheepNet kernel module:
   /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65/modules/2.4.18-0.8a/sheep.o
Warning: loading /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65/modules/2.4.18-0.8a/sheep.o will 
taint the kernel: forced load
Loading tun driver kernel module:
   /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65/modules/2.4.18-0.8a/tun.o
Warning: loading /usr/lib/mol/0.9.65/modules/2.4.18-0.8a/tun.o will taint 
the kernel: forced load
Session 0. Lockfile: /var/lock/mol-0
Debugger nub disabled
The session save/restore feature is disabled
OF device tree: oftrees/oftree.nw
Timebase frequency: 16.67 MHz
48MB RAM mapped at 0x40000000
Running in PowerPC G3 mode
Using Linux keycodes
Using nvram-image '/var/lib/mol/nvram.nw'
Video module 'xvideo' installed.
Running on VT 8.
Using usb mouse on /dev/input/mice
Cache enabled for console-video
Video module 'console_video' installed.

MODE:  640* 480, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE:  800* 600, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE: 1024* 768, depth 8,15,32   { 60.0 } Hz
MODE: 1152* 864, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE: 1280*1024, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE: 1600*1200, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz

No video mode match the default one.
Starting in video mode 640*480, depth 8, 0.0 Hz  [offs:0, rb:640]
---> The network interface 'eth0' is not configured!
Failed to initialize the sheep-<eth0> device
DHCP nameserver exported: 202.106.196.115
Ethernet Interface (port 1) 'tun-<tun0>' @ 00:00:0D:EA:DB:EE
Using /dev/dsp for sound output

HFS  images/moldisk.i MOL                <read-only>     0 MB 
HFS+ /dev/hda9        trace              <read-write> 5000 MB 

Loading 'System Folder/Mac OS ROM' from /dev/hda9

Mapping GC at 80800000
RTAS instantiated at 00004000
************ WARNING, phandle == 0 ***********
********* of_quiesce *********
>>> Unimplemented RTAS 'set-time-of-day' (7/1)
  000007D2   0000000B   0000000B   0000000C   00000019   00000027   
00000000 
<*> kOpenCommand
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
cleaning up...
Terminating threads...
DONE



The only thing that I can think of which is unusual is that I copied thhe 
Mac OS ROM file from the install CD into my system folder so that I could 
do a New World boot.  Otherwise, everything is as usual.  Also, should I 
do a 'hpmount /dev/hda9' before I run MOL? (it doesn't seem to make a 
difference whether i do or not.)

So, is there anything strange about my MOL output? or is this normal?

Thanks for any help.

PTP

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Jamie Maynard wrote:

> Hi did you check out my recent (end of September) HOWTO for Yellow Dog Linux
> 2.3 much of the content of this post applies to both 2.2 and 2.1.  To get
> the kmods working download the mol-kmods-0.9.65.src.rpm from the MOL web
> site and rebuild it using the following command:
> 
> # rpm --rebuild <src-rpm>
> 
> And then install the recently created RPM which will be located in
> /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc/
> 
> This will provide you with MOL kmods suitable for your kernel.
> 
> Jamie
> 
> On 27/10/02 2:46 pm, "Paris Pender" <parisp@newton.hep.upenn.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have tried upgrading to MOL 0.9.65 and running it, but this version
> > lacks
> > kernel support for my machine (even when installing the associated kmods
> > rpm as well).  0.9.65 has support for kernel 2.4.18, but I have kernel
> > 2.4.18-0.8a.... which, despite the short suffix, makes MOL spit out a few
> > lines which say that there was an error with the kernel.  (Here, I'm using
> > the -a option for startmol to allow a kernel mismatch.)  When I try to
> > take
> > the kernel modules from MOL 0.9.60 and put them in the 0.9.65 folder, MOL
> > realizes that I'm trying to do something tricky, and thusly scolds me.
> > 
> > As for the lists, from what I've seen via searches, the only messages
> > which
> > were relevant to my problem were either for a slightly different system
> > setup (i.e. a different laptop, Mac OS, or something else), or were
> > threads
> > which abruptly stopped just before they might answer my question.  So, no
> > luck on that front either.
> > 
> > So.. I'm still confused about how to make this work.  The setup
> > instructions
> > in the YDL install book made it sound very easy, but for some reason it
> > just won't go.
> > 
> > PTP
> > 
> > On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Jamie Maynard wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi
> >> 
> >> First off you may want to try upgrading to the latest version of MOL.
> >> 0.9.60 is 5 versions out of date and there have been many improvements since
> >> the 0.9.60 release of MOL.
> >> 
> >> Try this first.  Also I suggest looking at the archives as other people have
> >> reported similar problems with other types of hardware.  If you can't find
> >> anything post back and we'll see If we can't help more.
> >> 
> >> Jamie
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 26/10/02 8:14 pm, "Paris Pender" <parisp@newton.hep.upenn.edu> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I've been trying to get MOL to work on my Powerbook G3 (1998 version, I
> >>> think), running a 300 MHz G3 with 64 Megs of RAM, and a 2 gig HD.  I'm
> >>> running YDL, kernel 2.4.18-0.8a, in oldworld mode, and MOL version
> >>> 0.9.60.  On the mac side I run OS 8.6.
> >>> 
> >>> The problem is the following:  after typing in startmol, a window pops up
> >>> and I see the 'happy mac' face, but then nothing else happens.  MOL is
> >>> using up about 95% of my CPU, but isn't doing anything in its X-window.
> >>> The onlyu thing I've done so far, besides running molvconfig, is to copy
> >>> the Mac OS ROM file from my install CD into my system folder
> >>> (incidentally, copying it to the linux side and trying to get MOL to use
> >>> it there doesn't work either), and change around a couple of the default
> >>> lines of the molrc file to suite my RAM specifications.  Any other
> >>> fiddling with the molrc file, or various MOL configurations have not
> >>> produced any effect.
> >>> 
> >>> So, I'm wondering -- is there some trick to getting MOL to work on
> >>> Powebooks?  It would be great if I could run my mac off the linux side,
> >>> but thus far i've not been able to get the program to get past the 'happy
> >>> mac' face.  I've put MOL's output below.  Thanks for any help.
> >>> 
> >>> PTP
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Samuel Rydh <samuel@ibrium.se>
> >>> Version 0.9.60 
> >>> Configuration file: /etc/molrc
> >>> Library directory: /usr/lib/mol
> >>> Session 0. Lockfile '/var/lock/mol-0'
> >>> The session save/restore feature is disabled
> >>> OF device tree: oftrees/oftree.nw
> >>> DEC frequency: 16 MHz, 165:10 mticks/usec
> >>> 55MB RAM mapped at 0x40000000
> >>> Running in PowerPC G3 mode
> >>> Using Linux keycodes
> >>> Using nvram-image 'nvram/nvram.nw'
> >>> Video module 'xvideo' installed.
> >>> Running on VT 8.
> >>> Using usb mouse on /dev/input/mice
> >>> Cache enabled for console-video
> >>> Video module 'console_video' installed.
> >>> 
> >>> MODE:  640* 480, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
> >>> MODE:  800* 600, depth 8,15,32   { 60.3 } Hz
> >>> MODE: 1024* 768, depth 8,15,32   { 60.0 } Hz
> >>> MODE: 1152* 864, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
> >>> MODE: 1280*1024, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
> >>> MODE: 1600*1200, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
> >>> 
> >>> Starting in video mode 800*600, depth 8, 60.3 Hz  [offs:0, rb:800]
> >>> 
> >>> HFS  images/moldisk.i MOL                <read-only>     0 MB
> >>> HFS+ /dev/hda9        trace              <read-only>  5000 MB
> >>> 
> >>> Loading 'System Folder/Mac OS ROM' from /dev/hda9
> >>> 
> >>> Mapping GC at 80800000
> >>> RTAS instantiated at 00004000
> >>> ************ WARNING, phandle == 0 ***********
> >>> ********* of_quiesce *********
> >>>>>> Unimplemented RTAS 'set-time-of-day' (7/1)
> >>> 000007D2   0000000A   0000001A   0000000E   0000000F   00000019
> >>> 00000000 
> >>> <*> kOpenCommand
> >>> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> >>> Exiting due to a crashed thread
> >>> cleaning up...
> >>> ***** SIGNAL Hangup in thread async-io thread *****
> >>> HUP: _pid 0, _uid 0. Last RVEC 0
> >>> 
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