Success, then failure WAS: Re: Applied Tiger patch, Tiger still won't install

[Joshua Kugler]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 09:43, Joshua Kugler wrote:
> Soooooooo...any other ideas? :)  I've got to be missing something obvious.
> Maybe I'll try a native install, then restore the boot loader once that's
> done.

Well, that was fun.  I did a native install of Tiger, so that overwrote my 
boot loader on /dev/hda.  Tried to run Mandrake rescue, but for some reason 
the kernel wouldn't load the hfs drivers, so couldn't reload the boot loader.  
The PPC System Rescue CD (from http://www.sysresccd.org/) locked up on boot, 
so that wasn't good.  So, I finally did a new linux install on /dev/hda.  I'm 
back up.

So, I started up MoL, and it worked inf.  Tiger booted great.  I installed the 
MoL drivers, which completed.  It shut down, and when I went to start it back 
up, I get this:

[joshua at cdesysadminmac joshua]$ startmol --osx
Mac-on-Linux 0.9.71-pre1 [Aug 4 2005 05:33]
Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh
Starting MOL session 1
Running in PowerPC 7400 mode, 512 MB RAM
Timebase: 33.29 MHz, Bus: 133.16 MHz, Clock: 733 MHz
Using USB mouse on /dev/input/mice
OHCI USB controller registered 
Could not open '/var/local/mol/x11.kbd'
Fullscreen video on VT 7.
Could not open '/var/local/mol/console.kbd'
Video driver(s): [xvideo] [console_video] 

     640* 480, depth 8,15,32   { 0.0, 59.9, 72.1, 74.9, 89.9, 99.7 } Hz
     640* 480, depth 8,15   { 116.6 } Hz
     800* 600, depth 8,15,32   { 56.2, 60.3, 70.0, 72.1, 74.9, 89.9, 94.8, 
99.9 } Hz
    1024* 768, depth 8,15,32   { 60.0, 70.0, 74.8, 75.0 } Hz
    1152* 768, depth 8,15,32   { 54.7 } Hz
    1152* 864, depth 8,15,32   { 59.9 } Hz
    1280* 854, depth 8,15,32   { 60.0 } Hz
    1280*1024, depth 8,15,32   { 60.0, 60.0 } Hz
    1600*1200, depth 8,15,32   { 59.9 } Hz

DHCP nameserver exported: 172.20.5.15
Ethernet Interface 'tun-<tun1>' @ 00:00:0D:EA:DB:EE

    ip/mask: 192.168.41.2/255.255.255.0  gw: 192.168.41.1
    broadcast: 192.168.41.255  nameserver: 192.168.41.1


    CD    /dev/cdrom       CD/DVD         <read-only>   ------ 
    Disk  /dev/hdb         - Partioned -  <rw> 39266 MB 

SCSI devices:

    SCSI  /dev/cdrom       [CDROM/DVD driver]


>> ==================================================
>> MacOS X Boot Loader 0.9.70
>> Candidate boot volume: /mol-blk at 0/disk at 0:2
>> /mol-blk at 0/disk at 0:2,\mach_kernel (4313028 bytes)
>> Old mkext timestamp (or safe-boot)
>> Loading from /mol-blk at 0/disk at 0:2,\System\Library\
>> --> Boot loader failure: Out of memory
cleaning up...
Terminating threads...
DONE

My Mac drive is:
    blkdev:		/dev/hdb	-rw -force -whole

Tried removing -force and -whole, and it didn't change anything.

And I have 512 MB allocated to MoL.

The problem persists, even after I reboot the Linux machine.

uname -a gives:
Linux cdesysadminmac.cde.uaf.edu 2.6.11-6mdk #1 Sat Mar 26 03:36:44 CET 2005 
ppc 7450, altivec supported unknown GNU/Linu

-- 
Joshua Kugler
CDE System Administrator
http://distance.uaf.edu/