OSX BootX is not an ELF image

Ted McDonald mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:37:27 -0700


Howdy Folks

I have had no problems running MOL with OS 9.2 with YDL 2.3; however, I a=
m=20
having problems getting OS X to boot in MOL.

Below see the output for pdisk -l and startmol=20

[ted@localhost /etc]# pdisk -l
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hdb'
 #:                type name               length   base      ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                  63 @ 1
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh              54 @ 64
 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh              74 @ 118
 4:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh              54 @ 192
 5:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh              74 @ 246
 6:      Apple_FWDriver Macintosh             200 @ 320
 7:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh             512 @ 520
 8:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition       512 @ 1032
 9:           Apple_HFS "OSX"           117220042 @ 1544      ( 55.9G)
10:           Apple_HFS "OS9.2"         117220041 @ 117221586 ( 55.9G)
11:          Apple_Free                        21 @ 234441627

[ted@localhost /etc]# startmol

HFS  images/moldisk.i MOL                <read-only>     0 MB
HFS+ /dev/hdb9        OSX                <read-write> 57236 MB

Searching /dev/hdb9 for a 'Mac OS ROM' file

**** HINT ***********************************************
*  The ROM search can be speeded up by adding the line
*    macos_rompath: 'System/Library/CoreServices/BootX'
*  to the /etc/molrc file.
*********************************************************
Loading 'System/Library/CoreServices/BootX' from /dev/hdb9

newworld: ----> System/Library/CoreServices/BootX is not an ELF image
cleaning up...
Terminating threads...
DONE

Best, Ted