MOL and OSX on PPC604

[Natalia Portillo]

Officially is ilegal to run any MacOS on non-Apple hardware.
Also, the OS X 10.2 kernel requires G3 (I dont really know if MOL has
any workaround, but almost sure that not).

And finally, why you have altivec compiled in the kernel if your CPU
doesn't support altivec?

P.S.: That "corrupted" screen is because it failed, boot it in verbose
mode to have the error message.

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> De: mol-general-admin@lists.maconlinux.org 
> [mailto:mol-general-admin@lists.maconlinux.org] En nombre de 
> Brian Ruth
> Enviado el: martes, 01 de julio de 2003 15:49
> Para: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Asunto: MOL and OSX on PPC604
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> This has probably already been covered, but I couldn't find 
> an answer in 
> the archives, so...
> 
> ..Can I run OSX on non-G3 or G4 processors using MOL? I have 
> an IBM RS/6000
> 7248 running Debian. This machine has a 133MHz 604 processor. 
> MacOS 9.2.2
> runs fine on it, and Apple System Profiler reports a G3 
> 133Mhz processor.
> 
> If I try to boot from an OSX 10.2.2 CD, it starts off 
> accessing the CD for
> a few moments, then locks MOL with just some corruption in 
> the MOL display.
> Using an earlier OSX CD (not sure of the version - I think 
> it's 10.1), I 
> get a little further - the MOL log shows a message saying 
> 'Mac OS 10.1 
> acceleration), and starts to display the Darwin kernel 
> startup messages, 
> before Darwin exits with a kernel panic.
> 
> So, the question is, should I be able to run OSX on a 604, or 
> am I just
> asking too much of it? I have AltiVec support compiled into 
> the kernel,
> and the AltiVec MOL modules, and tried to start it using the command
> line arguments, 'startmol -X --cdboot'. MOL version is 0.9.68.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian.
> 
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> Brian Ruth,
> Evolutionary Anatomy Unit,
> Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology,
> University College London,
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