Installing mol driver kills MacOS X 10.2.8

[Natalia Portillo]

MacOS can,
Just press COMMAND+OPTION+V and you will see a message list from the kernel
as the one present o Linux, and ok, the error. 

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: mol-general-admin@lists.maconlinux.org 
> [mailto:mol-general-admin@lists.maconlinux.org] En nombre de 
> Christian Ordig
> Enviado el: viernes, 04 de junio de 2004 19:38
> Para: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Asunto: Re: Installing mol driver kills MacOS X 10.2.8
> 
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:53:18AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> > Christian Ordig writes:
> > 
> > > I tried running mol 0.9.70. Everything was fine until I 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 start 
> > > mol. (even with --ram=32) (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.
> right.
>  
> > 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.
> that's what I've already done after some further unsuccessful 
> booting trials.
> I also removed the kext cache files, in case something went 
> wrong generating them. Same result. 
> I had these kinds of problems several times before ... and 
> after some time playing with the kext cache files everything 
> was fine again. 
> And OSX was still bootable in mol (0.9.68).
> 
> Strange thing. (Would be nice if OSX would tell me where the 
> problems are and not simply such a damn pic.)
> 
> > You can do this from Mac OS 9 or from Linux, whichever seems easier.
> did this from linux using the hfsplus filesystem driver in the kernel.
>  
> > > 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.
> it seems mol doesn't even try to use any swap. Swap usage is 
> 0KB and memory usage is about 50MB. (before and after starting mol)
> 
> > You can well use more than the physical RAM, no harm done if Linux 
> > starts swapping out parts of the emulator.
> thought it needs directly mapped memory which is not swapable.
> 
> > Consider upgrading the
> > RAM, the Wallstreet holds up to 512MB.
> RAM modules are quite expensive these days :-( I already 
> thought about buying 256MB Kingston RAM (should be fine I 
> hope ... ) Low profile modules are also quite rare.
> 
> Further ideas?
> TIA.
> 
> --
> Christian Ordig
> Germany
> 
>