Can't boot OS 9 at all with 0.9.71pre6, can you?

[Gregory Smith]

I don't use MOL any more, but when I did, I wasn't able to boot into 9
(or 8.5) as far back as pre2 or something, IIRC. I thought it might be
the bootloader fix.

Gregory

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 21:10 -0800, Rob Frohne wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I can't seem to boot OS 9 at all with 0.9.71pre6, from CD or hard 
> drive.  Has anyone else had any success with this?
> 
> Here is what I get when I try:
> 
> frohro at frohne:~$ startmol
> Mac-on-Linux 0.9.71-pre5 [Jan 2 2006 20:35]
> Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh
> Starting MOL session 0
> Running in PowerPC 7400 mode, 256 MB RAM
> Timebase: 16.67 MHz, Bus: 66.68 MHz, Clock: 495 MHz
> Using USB mouse on /dev/input/mice
> OHCI USB controller registered
> Fullscreen video on VT 8.
> Could not open '/var/local/mol/console.kbd'
> Cache enabled for console-video
> Video driver(s): [console_video]
> 
>     1024* 768, depth 8,15,32   { 60.0 } Hz
> 
> Autoswitching to console
> 
> 
> I did compile with debug support enabled, but when I try to run with it 
> I get:
> 
> frohro at frohne:~$ sudo startmol --debug
> Password:
> *** The mac-on-linux debugger appears to be missing.
> *** Perhaps MOL was compiled without debugger support?
> frohro at frohne:~$
> 
> I see a few others on the Yellow Dog Linux mailing list with some 
> similar problems.  The sheep driver works for me just fine in OS X.  
> (Interesting to note that the sheep driver was NOT recommended for OS X 
> on the maconlinux.org site.)  I wonder if some of the patches broke OS 9 
> support, perhaps the sheep ones, perhaps some others. 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob