mol problem. macosx partition locked. any suggestions?

[Bill Fink]

Hi Roger,

On 25 Aug 2004, Roger Scow wrote:

> Sorry for the cross post.  I've asked before, but no joy on progress.
> 
> iBook 800.  MacOSX.3.5 partition on /dev/hda9.  YDL 3.0.1.  mol and
> mol-kmods are up to date according to yum.  I've made appropriate
> changes, I think to the molrc.osx config file, etc.  I've searched the
> mol archives.
> 
> So, here's the deal:  When I type startmol -X, the full screen video
> kicks in, the tux-loves-the-apple logo and the OSX spinning cogwheel
> appear.  And that's it.  One hour later, no change.
> 
> When I get out of this (ctrl-f8) I can command-C and stop mol.  Or kill
> <pid>.  The terminal shows no major kluges, but the mol.1.log shows
> "/dev/hda9 this volume is locked".  
> 
> I've gone into OSX, repaired permissions, etc.  The only HFS+ partition
> that has an operating system is hda9.  The other partitions are system
> partitions, etc., but no OS there.  
> 
> How do I unlock the damn partition?  Mount shows no inappropriately
> mounted volumes.  umount /dev/hda9 says that that volume isn't mounted.
> 
> Short of a YDL reinstall (which seems like a stupid thing to do), what
> should I try next?

Is /dev/hda9 the only uncommented partition in your molrc.osx config
file, and does it have "-rw" and "-boot" flags?

						-Bill