Mac-on-Linux?

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 25 February 2005 21:13, Joshua Wehner wrote:
> I will try this, but I have a couple of questions as I reboot:
>
> On Feb 25, 2005, at 1:05 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > If you installed MacOS directly from the Mac OS Install CD, and not
> > via MOL,
> > this ROM file would not be there as explained before. So you get a
> > virtual
> > New World machine unable to boot the Mac OS that is loaded into it.
>
> 1) Should I not, then, be able to boot from CD with --cdboot and
> install the OS via MOL? I have tried to do this, but I doesn't work any
> better.
>
You should indeed be able to. No idea why that didn't work then.

> 2) I'm not entirely sure that I have an "old world" Mac. How does one
> determine this?  According to this page:
> http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1167.html the New World ROM
> began with iMac. I have a Blue & White G3, which, I believe (but maybe
> no?) came out after the original iMac.
>
B&W G3 is new world as far as I know.

Too bad it didn't work. I have no other suggestions at this point.

Unless maybe, have you checked /var/log/messages for possibly additional 
information during the start of mol ?

Geert Jan