Tiger and MOL

[Tobias McNulty]

Here you go, the same thing happens every time.  On the boot screen all I 
see is grey (no apple logo).  The hard drive works for about 10 seconds 
and then it dies with the error at the end of that log.

Toby

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Mattias Nissler wrote:

>
> On 21.07.2005, at 12:29, calum.lists at iol.ie wrote:
>
>> Mattias Nissler wrote on  Tue Jul 19 15:50:26 MDT 2005:
>> 
>> 
>> > now here is where you can get the patch enabling MOL to run Tiger from:
>> > http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/mol/index.html
>> > Please note that I only implemented a handler for the stmw assembly
>> > instruction when used for writing the page table. This was the
>> > problem that made MOL fail to run Tiger. However, I haven't checked
>> > the rest of MOLs infrastructure. This means that Tiger might still
>> > cause imcompatibilities, missing acceleration (it seems there is some
>> > accel stuff missing) and so on.
>> > 
>> 
>> Awesome... after a bit of tweaking, I have MOL/Tiger running on Ubuntu
>> Breezy on  my Powerbook G4, compiled from the Ubuntu sources :)  (Although
>> I do have to load the mol kernel module myself with insmod rather than
>> modprobe, for some reason... haven't worked that one out yet.)
>> 
>> Anyone know the prospects of getting the OSX-side drivers to work with
>> Tiger anytime soon, so I can have networking again?  Since they're kernel
>> extensions I assume they need to change a bit for 10.4.  (They still
>> install just fine, but when I try to start MOL afterwards, I just get a
>> "bootloader: out of memory" error.)
>
> Could you please post some MOL output? I might have a solution to that. 
> Networking works fine here.
>
> Mattias
>
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Mac-on-Linux 0.9.71-pre1 [Jul 20 2005 17:27]
Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh
Starting MOL session 1
Running in PowerPC 7400 mode, 128 MB RAM
Timebase: 24.96 MHz, Bus: 99.86 MHz, Clock: 400 MHz
Using USB mouse on /dev/input/mice
OHCI USB controller registered 
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

Xlib: No protocol specified


Could not connect to X server :0.0
Fullscreen video on VT 8.
Could not open '/var/local/mol/console.kbd'
Video driver(s): [console_video] 

    1152* 768, depth 8,15,32   { 0.0 } Hz

No video mode match the default one.
Autoswitching to console
DHCP nameserver exported: 208.20.35.2
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

ALSA sound driver (device 'default')
ALSA: failed to setup mixer

    CD    /dev/cdrom       CD/DVD         <read-only>   ------ 
    HFS+  /dev/hda9        Artemis        <rw> 20603 MB 
    HFS+  /dev/hda10       Athena         <rw> 4096 MB 
    HFS   /dev/hda11       Hygeia         <rw>  512 MB 
----> /dev/hda12 might be a boot-strap partition.
------> /dev/hda15 is linux-mounted with write privileges.
Could not open '/dev/hda15' with read-write permissions
No volumes found in '/dev/hdb'
No volumes found in '/dev/sda'
No volumes found in '/dev/sdb'

SCSI devices:

    SCSI  /dev/cdrom       [CDROM/DVD driver]


>> ==================================================
>> MacOS X Boot Loader 0.9.70
>> Candidate boot volume: /mol-blk at 0/disk at 2:0
>> /mol-blk at 0/disk at 2:0,\mach_kernel (4308960 bytes)
>> Old mkext timestamp (or safe-boot)
>> Loading from /mol-blk at 0/disk at 2:0,\System\Library\
>> --> Boot loader failure: Out of memory
cleaning up...
Terminating threads...
DONE