Can startmol run OS 9 on eMac that only boots in OSX

[John Lannon]

>> I have a new eMac with YellowDogLinux 3.0.1.  Is it
>> possible to run MOL OS 9 even though the eMac only
has
>> OS X capability?  startmol for OS X works fine.  I
was
>> hoping to get around some drive issues with OS X by
>> running OS 9 under MOL.  Thanks in Advance

>Yes, it can. The reason OS 9.x won't boot on an eMac
is >because of newer 
>hardware - like the video controller and IDE
controller >- that OS 9.x 
>doesn't know how to deal with. Since MoL provides its
>own virtual 
>devices (and drivers) that MacOS 9.x will talk to, it
>doesn't have to 
>know (or care) about the real hardware.

Okay, when I attempt to run startmol I get the
following results:

startmol
Mac-on-Linux 0.9.69 Copyright (C) 1997-2003 Samuel
Rydh
Starting MOL session 0
Loading Mac-on-Linux kernel module:
   /usr/lib/mol/0.9.69/modules/2.4.22-2g/mol.o
Warning: loading
/usr/lib/mol/0.9.69/modules/2.4.22-2g/mol.o will taint
the
kernel: forced load
  See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for
information about tainted
modules
Module mol loaded, with warnings
Loading SheepNet kernel module:
   /usr/lib/mol/0.9.69/modules/2.4.22-2g/sheep.o
Warning: loading
/usr/lib/mol/0.9.69/modules/2.4.22-2g/sheep.o will
taint the
kernel: forced load
  See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for
information about tainted
modules
Module sheep loaded, with warnings
Loading tun driver kernel module:
   /usr/lib/mol/0.9.69/modules/2.4.22-2g/tun.o
Warning: loading
/usr/lib/mol/0.9.69/modules/2.4.22-2g/tun.o will taint
the
kernel: forced load
  See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for
information about tainted
modules
Module tun loaded, with warnings
Running in PowerPC 7400 mode, 48 MB RAM
Timebase: 33.17 MHz, Bus: 132.71 MHz, Clock: 999 MHz
Using USB mouse on /dev/input/mice
OHCI USB controller registered
Could not open '/var/lib/mol/x11.kbd'
Video driver(s): [xvideo]

     640* 480, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
     800* 600, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
    1024* 768, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
    1152* 864, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
    1280*1024, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
    1600*1200, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz

No video mode match the default one.
---> The network interface 'eth0' is not configured!
Failed to initialize the sheep-<eth0> device
Could not determine the nameserver (localhost is
used).
DHCP nameserver exported: 192.168.1.1
Ethernet Interface (port 1) 'tun-<tun0>' @
00:00:0D:EA:DB:EE
Could not open driver 'drivers/scsi.nw': No such file
or directory
MOL SCSI controller registered

    /dev/sg0 SCSI-<0:0:0> CD/DVD HL-DT-ST RW/DVD
GCC-4480B 1.03

    SCSI /dev/cdrom  [skipped - handled as a raw SCSI
device]
----> /dev/hda2 might be a boot-strap partition.
    Unembedded HFS+ /dev/hda4                      
<rw> 16256 MB
    Unembedded HFS+ /dev/hda6                      
<rw> 8064 MB
------> /dev/hda8 is linux-mounted with write
privileges.
Could not open '/dev/hda8' with read-write permissions
No volumes found in '/dev/hdb'
No volumes found in '/dev/sda'
No volumes found in '/dev/sdb'


>>
=============================================================
>> Mac-on-Linux OpenFirmware 0.9.12

>> --- No bootable disk was found!
-----------------------------
>> If this is an oldworld machine, try booting from
the MacOS
>> install CD and install MacOS from within MOL.
>>
-------------------------------------------------------------
cleaning up...
Terminating threads...
DONE


Since I can not install 9 on the eMac (only Classic)
I'm not really sure what startmol means when it says
"No bootable disk found".  Any ideas what might be
happening?  Thanks.


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