LOM, anyone?

Natalia Portillo iosglpgc at teleline.es
Tue Oct 19 09:04:16 MDT 2004


Please take shot of all boot messages, maybe that kernel isnt detecting the
keyboard or something. However, the info in the boot messages will be
helpful. 

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: mol-general-bounces at lists.maconlinux.org 
> [mailto:mol-general-bounces at lists.maconlinux.org] En nombre 
> de Chan Siu Ming
> Enviado el: martes, 19 de octubre de 2004 13:57
> Para: Mac-on-Linux General Discussion List
> Asunto: Re: LOM, anyone?
> 
> Maybe you were referring to my comment on the keyboard. The 
> keyboard works fine in yaboot prompt, but after the kernel 
> has booted, it won't work anymore, so, logging in etc is 
> quite difficult :) This is also to say, I get much further 
> booting Linux than your screenshots show. But I'm using 10.2.8.
> 
>  --- ted bonkenburg <ted at inaddrany.com> wrote: 
> > 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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