Installing mol driver kills MacOS X 10.2.8

[Jens Schmalzing]

Hi,

Christian Ordig writes:

> I tried running mol 0.9.70. Everything was fine until I=20
> installed the mol drivers in OS 10.2.8 running in mol.
> First problem I got was an out of memory error when trying to=20
> start mol. (even with --ram=3D32) (boot loader: Out of memory)

> Then I tried to boot into OSX natively again, and there I noticed
> the second problem: I get the grey apple for some seconds and then
> instead of the rotating thing, I get a grey crossed circle in the
> center of the screen :-(

Just to make sure what happened:

You booted Mac OS X in mol.  That worked fine, then you installed the
drivers.  That looked like it worked as well, but on the next boot of
Mac OS X in mol, you got the "boot loader: Oom" message.  You tried
that several times with different parameters, same outcome.  So you
rebooted from Linux into Mac OS X and got the dreaded no-parking sign.

Anyway, what has probably happened is that the driver installation
failed and left corrupted kernel extensions in your System folder.
First thing you should try is to delete the files MolEnet.kext and
MolAudioDevice.kext from the folder /System/Library/Extensions.=20=20
You can do this from Mac OS 9 or from Linux, whichever seems easier.

> Hardware: PB G3 Wallstreet (462MHz G3 CPU upgrade, 192MB RAM)
> Software: Linux 2.4.26, 128MB swap, mol 0.9.70, MacOS X 10.2.8

> Any hints?

Increase your swap space, and increase the memory allocation for mol.
You can well use more than the physical RAM, no harm done if Linux
starts swapping out parts of the emulator.  Consider upgrading the
RAM, the Wallstreet holds up to 512MB.

Natalia Portillo writes:

> Do you need to repeat the message so many times?=20

That was indeed pretty gross, but may have been some mailer error.  No
need to repeat the message once more, in any case :)

Regards, Jens.


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