SyncRead: error (What am I doing wrong?)

[Larry Brunelle]

Please forgive if a repeated posting - not sure the first
one got through.



Running the free download of YDL 4.1.
Mac Mini 512 MB, 80GB
OS X 10.4 is on /dev/hda3 and dual-boots OK.
Using the mol that comes with YDL, no modifications
(yet, anyway).
Starts up, displays a window (with the bird).

If the CD drive is configured in molrc.osx, the
window stays up; if the OS X install DVD is in the
drive, it tries to load, followed by the Black Screen
of Death.

If the CD drive is NOT configured, the window stays up
long enough to be discernible, then closes.   The final
parts of the console message are

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DHCP nameserver exported: 192.168.1.100
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')

     Unembedded HFS+ /dev/hda3                       <rw>  128 MB BOOT1

SCSI devices:

     [SCSI auto-probing disabled]

     <No SCSI Devices>
USB device connect (1:8)
USB device connect (1:7)

>> ==================================================
>> MacOS X Boot Loader 0.9.70
>> SyncRead: error
>> SyncRead: error
>> --> Boot loader failure: No bootable disk found

cleaning up...
vncvideo: vnc_cleanup called
USB disconnect
USB disconnect
Terminating threads...
DONE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



The block device section of molrc.osx is as follows.
Can anyone direct me?  (So near and yet so far . . .)

Thanks!

Larry Brunelle
brunelle at acm.org
brunelle at ieee.org


#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# OS X Volumes
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#	Volumes to be mounted in MacOS X are specified through the
#	blkdev keyword:
#
#		blkdev:		<device>   [flags]
#
#	where <device> can be a complete disk (/dev/hda), a single
#	partition (/dev/hda7) or a disk image.
#
#	The following flags are supported
#	
#		-rw/-ro		read-write / read-only [default]
#		-force		force usage of device (be careful!)
#		-boot		boot from this disk
#		-boot1		boot from this disk (ignore other -boot flags)
#		-whole		export the entire device (including
#				any non-HFS partitions). BE CAREFUL!
#		-cd		CDROM/DVD
#
#	MOL will boot from CD if it invoked through 'startmol -X --cdboot'.

blkdev:			/dev/hda3 -force -boot1 -rw
#blkdev:			/dev/hdb	-cd ${cdboot}

ifempty ${altconfig} {
     # default configuration
     #blkdev:		/dev/hda3	-rw
     # blkdev:		/dev/hda	-rw
     # blkdev:		/dev/hdb	-rw
     # blkdev:		/dev/sda	-rw
     # blkdev:		/dev/sdb	-rw

} else {
     # alternate configuration
     blkdev:		/tmp/osx.image	-rw
     #blkdev:		/dev/loop0	-rw
}