OSX-installation fails

[Mati Ustav]

<br><font size=2><tt>mol-general-admin@lists.maconlinux.org wrote on 15.04.2004
14:28:17:<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>&gt; I try to install osx 10.1 on a separate scsi-disk
(/dev/sdb) from<br>
&gt; mol-0.9.70<br>
&gt; on a rs6k 43P-140 604e 332MHz running Suse 7.3 with kernel:2.4.20-pre7.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Pretty much the same config as mine...</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>&gt; I can format &amp; partition the disk from within
the OSX-installer.<br>
&gt; The installation starts and runs for a while.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Then the installer aborts when &quot;Configuring OSX&quot;.<br>
&gt; &quot;There were errors installing the software, Please try installing
again&quot;<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Same problems too :)</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>1) Specifying the disk as /dev/sdaX, panther refuses
to install with &quot;you cannot boot from this drive&quot;.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>2) Specifying the disk as scsi disk (doesn't matter
if autodetected of explicit), osx install aborts with errors. Also, there
are errors on the osx boot screen (using --config=v option with starmol)
that said something like &quot;SAM Multimedia: Read ort write failed: &lt;some
numbers&gt;&quot;. This turns out to be about scsi errors, why it says
&quot;multimedia&quot; and not a hint about scsi on disks, is beyond me.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>3) For me it worked, if I disabled scsi access to
the disk and set the disk like this: blkdev: /dev/sda -rw -whole -force</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>It still insisted on install partition being within
first 8GB, but that's a compromise I was willing to make after 2 long evenings
of trying to get it to install :)</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>&nbsp;<br>
&gt; This is how molrc.osx looks like:<br>
&gt; processor: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;601 &nbsp;#
Tried with 604 but it paniced.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>You shouldn't need to set the processor: line, default
works just fine.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>&gt; autoprobe_scsi: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; no<br>
&gt; scsi_dev: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;0:0:6&quot;</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Remove (or comment out) this last line, if this is
your /dev/sdb at the scsi id 6.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>BR,</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>Mati</tt></font>
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