Locked MacOS X Volume Locked

[J. De Salvo]

Hi, Samuel and others--

Just wanted to follow up with a solution to the problem I had been 
having.

I had been receiving the following message after running startmol --osx 
with the latest MOL 0.9.86:

HFS+ /dev/hdb10       OS X           <rw> 64927 MB
    HFS+ /dev/hdb9        OS 9           <rw> 11390 MB
 ------> The volume '/dev/hdb10' is locked
HFS+ /dev/hdb10       OS X           <read-only>  64927 MB

It turns out it was not a stale process. Instead it was a config file 
problem. After commenting out the following lines in the molrc.osx 
file, the problem went away. OS X boots. Networking--appletalk and 
tcp/ip--also works. I am happy.


ifempty ${altconfig} {
    # default configuration
    blkdev:		/dev/hdb10	-rw
   # blkdev:		/dev/hdb	-rw
   # blkdev:		/dev/sda	-rw
   # blkdev:		/dev/sdb	-rw

} else {
    # alternate configuration
   #  blkdev:		/tmp/osx.image	-rw
    #blkdev:		/dev/loop0	-rw
}

This might have seemed an obvious action to perform in the first place,  
but it wasn't to me. I had thought that by entering the correct 
partition for OS X the other lines were superfluous and would be 
ignored--without the need for me to comment them out. Evidently that is 
not the case. I am also embarrassed.

Anyway, hope this might be helpful to some of you. Thanks Samuel for 
taking the time to respond to my initial concerns and especially for 
MOL and its continuing development.

Best,
--Joe