Errors starting MOL on MacOS X

Samuel Rydh mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:05:03 +0200


On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:56:16PM -0700, J S wrote:
> bash-2.05a$ startmol --linux
> Mac-on-Linux 0.9.71-pre1 [Jun 24 2004 14:06]
> Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh
> Starting MOL session 3
> Fatal error: opening /dev/mol3: No such file or
> directory
> 
> After the error, it will hang and I'd have to ctlr-c
> it to exit.  I've tried the command in both the normal
> terminal and Apple X11 terminal to no avail.  Does
> anyone have any idea what is causing this issue?

Sure, the problem is that the MOL kernel module has not been
loaded (one has to do it by hand; there is a makefile
target for that in the src/kmod subdirectory).

That said, the MOL under MacOS is still in alpha state...

/Samuel