MOL can't find os x boot volume

[John Collins]

If hda2 is your OSX partition, you can tell MOL to boot from it by adding
the -boot flag in /etc/mol/molrc.osx

I'm not at my Mac at the minute, but the line should read something like

blkdev: /dev/hda2 -boot -rw

Hope this helps

john
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "garry collinson" <sonofcolin@mac.com>
To: <mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 1:47 PM
Subject: MOL can't find os x boot volume


> Here is the output from the terminal:
>
> Mac-on-Linux 0.9.68 Copyright (C) 1997-2003 Samuel Rydh
> Starting MOL session 0
> Running in PowerPC G3 mode, 128 MB RAM
> Timebase: 16.64 MHz, Bus: 66.56 MHz, Clock: 499 MHz
> Using USB mouse on /dev/input/mice
> Could not open '/var/lib/mol/x11.kbd'
> Fullscreen video on VT 8.
> Could not open '/var/lib/mol/console.kbd'
> Cache enabled for console-video
> Video driver(s): [xvideo] [console_video]
>
>      640* 480, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
>      800* 600, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1024* 768, depth 8,15,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1152* 864, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1280*1024, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1600*1200, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
>
> No video mode match the default one.
> ---> The network interface 'eth0' is not configured!
> Failed to initialize the sheep-<eth0> device
> DHCP nameserver exported: 192.168.0.1
> Ethernet Interface (port 1) 'tun-<tun0>' @ 00:00:0D:EA:DB:EE
>
>     CD   /dev/cdrom       CD-ROM         <read-only>   ------
>     HFS+ /dev/hda2        Macintosh HD   <rw> 14336 MB
> ----> /dev/hda3 might be a boot-strap partition.
> No volumes found in '/dev/hdb'
> No volumes found in '/dev/sda'
> No volumes found in '/dev/sdb'
>
>
> >> =============================================================
> >> Mac-on-Linux OpenFirmware 0.9.12
> >> os_seek error
>
> >> --- No bootable disk was found! -----------------------------
> >> If this is an oldworld machine, try booting from the MacOS
> >> install CD and install MacOS from within MOL.
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------
> cleaning up...
> Terminating threads...
> DONE
>
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Colin
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