Troubles with starting MacOS X
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mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:41:52 +0200
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:42:09PM +0200, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Hija,
>
> I thought I should try the new OSX support and did exactly that
> but for some reason it won't start.
> This is a PowerBook G4 with Linux 2.4.19. And I have the following
> relevant partitions with OSX 10.1.4:
>
> /dev/hda11 Apple_Boot MOSX_OF3_Booter 16384 @ 2121224 ( 8.0M) Unknown
> /dev/hda12 Apple_Loader SecondaryLoader 1024 @ 2137608 (512.0k) Unknown
> /dev/hda13 Apple_UFS Mac_OS_X 3054592 @ 2138632 ( 1.5G) Unknown
>
> BTW: When you say bootpartition, is that the primary bootloader, the
> secondary bootloader or the system partition?
The root partition. MOL uses a custom boot loader so no special
boot partition is needed.
>
> I configured /etc/mol/molrc.osx appropriately by inserting all kind of
> combinations of
> blkdev: /dev/hda11 -rw -boot
> blkdev: /dev/hda12 -rw
> blkdev: /dev/hda13 -rw
>
> but to no avail, all I get is:
> Boot device: /mol-blk/disk@0:0
I realize I have forgotten to mention that root partition must
be HFS at the moment (this will change in the future).
/Samuel