MOL reports "File is too large. Failed to load mkext!" with MacOSX 10.3.7

[Matthew Denner]

Hi,

I'm trying to get MOL 0.9.71pre1 (according to the Gentoo ebuild I've
installed) to install MacOSX 10.3.7 (according to the CD) that came
with my new Powerbook (one of the recent ones) but I'm seeing errors
and wondered if someone could give me a hand sorting it out?

I'm trying to install MacOSX from the CD into a file based partition
(/usr/share/mol/drives/macosx.img).  The output I see when I run
'startmol --osx --cdboot' is included after this message.  The MOL
window itself shows the Penguin but then displays some kind of error
stack that I can't quite read because it's obscured.

I'm running a Gentoo system with a 2.6.12 kernel, which reports the
CPU as a Powerbook5,6.  It seems to be the same problem as listed in
this thread on the Gentoo forums
(http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-305028.html) except that he is
using a Mac Mini CD, so I'm wondering if it's a problem with MOL and
the MacOS version?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Matt

$ startmol --osx --cdboot
Mac-on-Linux 0.9.71-pre1 [Jul 4 2005 15:37]
Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh
Starting MOL session 1
Running in PowerPC 7400 mode, 512 MB RAM
Timebase: 18.43 MHz, Bus: 73.72 MHz, Clock: 1666 MHz
Using USB mouse on /dev/input/mice
OHCI USB controller registered
Could not open '/var/lib/mol/x11.kbd'
Video driver(s): [xvideo]

     640* 480, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
     800* 600, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
    1024* 768, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
    1152* 864, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
    1280*1024, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
    1600*1200, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz

DHCP nameserver exported: 212.42.162.1
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>   ------ BOOT1
    HFS   /usr/share/mol.. MacOSX Disk    <rw>  256 MB

SCSI devices:

    [SCSI auto-probing disabled]

    SCSI  /dev/cdrom       [CDROM/DVD driver]


>> ==================================================
>> MacOS X Boot Loader 0.9.70
>> Candidate boot volume: /mol-scsi/disk at 0:3
>> /mol-scsi/disk at 0:3,\mach_kernel (3867776 bytes)
>> /mol-scsi/disk at 0:3,\System\Library\Extensions.mkext
>> File is too large.
>> Failed to load mkext!
>> Loading from /mol-scsi/disk at 0:3,\System\Library\
>> ==================================================

X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
cleaning up...
Terminating threads...
DONE