Getting started: Beige G3 and Mac OS X

[Samuel Rydh]

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:22:10AM +0200, Carlos Izquierdo wrote:
> 
> 	Hi all,
> 
> 	I've been using Debian PPC for a while on a beige G3 (OldWorld). I have a 
> small partition with Mac OS 8.1 which I use mainly to boot Linux through 
> BootX. Recently a friend of mine lent me his Mac OS X 10.2 CDs to give it a 
> try, and I thought it would be nice to run it under MOL :-) However, I can't 
> even boot the CD. The following error occurs when I run "startmol --cdboot" 
> (after configuring video):
> 
> >> =============================================================
> >> Mac-on-Linux OpenFirmware 0.9.12
> >> Searching Mac_OS_X_CD for a 'Mac OS ROM' file
> 
> >> --- No bootable disk was found! -----------------------------
> >> If this is an oldworld machine, try booting from the MacOS
> >> install CD and install MacOS from within MOL.
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------

This is to be expected since you are trying to boot classic MacOS
and not OS X.

> If I add the -X switch (startmol -X --cdboot), the message evolves into 
> something even more exotic :-)
> 
> Can't read Elf32 image header
> Fatal error: drivers/bootx is not an ELF image

You haven't installed the debian mol-osx drivers (a separate
debian package).

/Samuel