Troubles with starting MacOS X

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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