OSX boot disk
Francois Prowse
mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:52:12 +1300 (NZDT)
Hi all - I've taken my OSX boot disk from my B&W Powermac and placed it in
my Linux box (Pegasos PPC, attached to secondary IDE bus)
Disk appears at /dev/hdc
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1020-0x1027, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1028-0x102f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: LITE-ON LTR-48125S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ST360021A, ATA DISK drive
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63,
UDMA(100)
hdc: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=116301/16/63,
UDMA(100)
hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
However can't seem to get MOL to boot this drive (can boot from a cdrom
just fine) with the following error message
Mac-on-Linux 0.9.68 Copyright (C) 1997-2003 Samuel Rydh
Starting MOL session 1
Running in PowerPC G3 mode, 128 MB RAM
Timebase: 25.00 MHz, Bus: 100.00 MHz, Clock: 601 MHz
Using USB mouse on /dev/input/mice
Fullscreen video on VT 8.
Could not open '/var/local/mol/console.kbd'
Cache enabled for console-video
Video driver(s): [console_video]
1152* 864, depth 8,32 { 59.9 } Hz
1280*1024, depth 8,32 { 60.0 } Hz
Autoswitching to console
CD /dev/cdrom CD-ROM <read-only> ------
>> ==================================================
>> MacOS X Boot Loader 1.1.18
>> --> Boot loader failure: No bootable disk found
cleaning up...
Terminating threads...
DONE
My molrc.osx file contains this line for boot
blkdev: /dev/hdc -rw -boot
Anyone have any ideas how to boot this???
Cheers
Francois
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