LOM, anyone?

[ted bonkenburg]

It won't work :-(

I've actually played with this a little bit, using the gentoo install 
cd.  Using the pseudopath stuff, I managed to get yaboot to come up and 
start booting the kernel but it is unable to load the initrd and I 
don't get any further.  I do get keyboard in yaboot, which I believe 
someone else was having trouble with.  This testing was done outside of 
Mom by setting up the config files by hand, and all of the files are 
coming from the psuedo file system so it isn't really fair.  The point 
of Mom is to make things easy for anyone to use, and of course when the 
port of mol to os x gets far enough along I'll update Mom to be able to 
create linux vms, etc.

Please keep in mind that for some strange reason I've decided to do a 
simple gui first and then start looking into the mol code in more 
detail.  So basically, I studied the mol code just enough to get it 
working and packaged as a Mac style app.  Btw - I've never actually 
used the Linux version of mol, so this makes it a bit harder!  Anyway, 
now that I have the user interface and packaging kind of OK, I'm going 
to start looking into how it actually works and what needs to be done 
to help finish the port.

In summary, I really don't know as much as I should about how mol and 
how it works at all.  But I'm a fast learner, so don't worry :-)

I'll leave you with some screenshots of my linux attempt:

http://www.inaddrany.com/mom-lin.pdf
http://www.inaddrany.com/mom-lin2.pdf

ted

On 16 Oct, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Asko Kauppi wrote:

>
> Has any of you Mom-testers tried booting from a Linux/PPC cd-rom?
> What were the results and how long did you go?
>
> -ak
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