Latest rsync kinda works

[Eric Haines]

On Monday 28 June 2004 01:56, you wrote:
<snip>

> The Mac OS ROM is there and works with a previous version of
> mol.
>
> By the way this happened to other users too and was reported
> in thread "OpenBIOS troubles" about April 6 and May 20.
>
> Here is my MOL version:
>
> fwo@green:~$ startmol --version
> Mac-on-Linux 0.9.71
> Copyright (C) 1997-2003 Samuel Rydh <samuel@ibrium.se>
> fwo@green:~$
>
> My system is a recent fresh install on Debian unstable.  The
> kernel is a fresh self compile of 2.6.6.  The computer is a
> SuperMac S900 with 1000mb.  It runs previous versions of
> mol perfectly.

I never did get OpenBIOS to work on my machine...I discovered that getting 
the source from bk://openbios.bkbits.net/unstable resulted in a successful 
compile, but it still doesn't work (and I don't have really enough knowledge 
to attempt to fix it, though I did try a few things anyway).

So I experimented with substituting the older openfirmware stuff from 0.9.70, 
and that got MOL going--basically, copying over the "of" file from 
mollib/drivers and renaming it "openbios" then installing again.  It seems to 
work, though I don't know all the features "openbios" has that "of" doesn't. 

I say "seems to work" because it still freezes my machine up totally almost 
immediately after MacOS starts booting, like 0.9.70 does, so I can't say for 
sure. But maybe worth a try.

(Speaking of freezing, I did find that MOL is happy to run indefinitely as 
long as MacOS doesn't start booting...if I finagle the boot partition, it 
will sit there with the "blinking question mark disk" forever without 
freezing.  But with a proper boot partition, almost immediately after it 
actually starts booting--wham, freeze.  I wonder what it's doing there that 
causes the system lockup...I've been comparing the sources with 0.9.68--which 
does work--but it's sort of hard to tell where, exactly, I should be looking.)

--Eric