Trouble with MOL
Dominik
mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:51:56 -0500
Unless the line "CD /dev/cdrom CD-ROM <read-only>
BOOT1." has a # in front of it (a comment), remove it. Also, your
blkdev: /dev/scd0 line, should be /dev/scd, as you are trying to use the
entire CD.
Dominik
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:15, Misty De Meo wrote:
> I'm having difficulty getting MOL to recognize my CDs... I've tried with the
> MacOS 9 CD that came with my iMac, released shortly before they stopped
> allowing bootable OS9 (startmol --newworld --cdboot) and a new Panther CD
> (startmol -X --cdboot). It has the error message
>
> ioctl: CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS: Invalid argument
>
> as well as complaining that "no bootable disk was found."
>
> The contents of molrc and molrc-osx (both identical) are the following two
> lines:
>
> blkdev: /dev/scd0 -cd --boot
> blkdev: /dev/hda5 -rw -force
>
> It seems to be ignoring my designation of /dev/scd0 as my DVD-ROM drive; it
> has the line "CD /dev/cdrom CD-ROM <read-only> ------
> BOOT1." Might this be the problem?
>
> Thank you,
> Misty De Meo
>
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