Posted Mom.app -- please help me test

[ted bonkenburg]

Hi Jerome,

After seeing your previous mails I had a suspicion that the French translation
for "System Folder" was causing the problem.  I'm not sure if it is the (e
accent) or if somewhere there is hard-coded "System Folder".  I'll look into it
when I get a chance.

Thanks for your help.

ted

Quoting Jerome Vernet <vernet.jerome at wanadoo.fr>:

> Hi again,
>
> I found what's happen..... My System Folder was named 'Dossier système'
> (guess you do not discover i'm french ;) ). It's look like the è  (e
> accent) disturb Mom/Mol.
>
> Renaming the System Folder from "Dossier Système' to 'System Folder'
> and let go !
>
> Curiously, Mol was hable to boot from a CD with à "Dossier Système'
> System Folder....
>
>
> Jerome
> Le 15 oct. 04, à 17:47, ted bonkenburg a écrit :
>
> > Hi Jerome,
> >
> > I'm actually not that familiar with OS 9.  On OS X, there is a system
> > utility called 'bless' [see man bless].  Essentially, this needs to be
> > used to set the location of the "System Folder" in the HFS boot block.
> >  I don't know what the equivalent is for mac os 9.
> >
> > Why don't you mount the vm's disk image and do bless -info on it and
> > post the results?  Here is how you would do that:
> >
> > 1.  Make sure Mom is not running and open a terminal
> > 2.  hdiutil attach <path_to_your_vm>/disk0.dmg
> > 3.  bless -info /Volumes/<name_of_your_vms_hard_disk_volume>
> >
> > Perhaps someone knows more about 'bless', but I wouldn't mess with it
> > any further at the moment.  You could end up accidentally making your
> > host system unbootable :-)
> >
> > Here is an example for my vm:
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---
> > tedbook:~ ted$ hdiutil attach ~/vms/rel/disk0.dmg
> > Initializing...
> > Attaching...
> > Finishing...
> > Finishing...
> > /dev/disk3              Apple_partition_scheme
> > /dev/disk3s1            Apple_partition_map
> > /dev/disk3s2            Apple_HFS
> > /Volumes/untitled
> > tedbook:~ ted$ bless -info /Volumes/untitled/
> > finderinfo[0]:     30 => Blessed System Folder is
> > /Volumes/untitled/System Folder
> > finderinfo[1]:      0 => No Startup App folder (ignored anyway)
> > finderinfo[2]:      0 => Open-folder linked list empty
> > finderinfo[3]:     30 => OS 9 blessed folder is
> > /Volumes/untitled/System Folder
> > finderinfo[4]:      0 => Unused field unset
> > finderinfo[5]:      0 => No OS 9 + X blessed X folder
> > 64-bit VSDB volume id:  0x1C49D982A548D68C
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---
> >
> > You can see that the System Folder is blessed on my vm.  That is
> > because I did a proper install, and somewhere along the way the os9
> > installation blessed it's virtual disk.
> >
> > Anyone know how to safely 'bless' a disk image?  I'll try to find out
> > how and get back to you.
> >
> > ted
> >
> > On 15 Oct, 2004, at 3:20 AM, Jérôme VERNET wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Just a point from my tests: I was unable to boot from a disk image
> >> with a good System Folder. Mom say 'No device to boot'.
> >>
> >>  When I boot from a CD, I can see the virtuel disk within
> >> Mol. Selecting with the Startup Panel the System Folder of this disk
> >> image as no effect, next time mol is restarted, doesn't want to boot
> >> :(
> >>
> >> Jerome
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