MOL running Mac

[Joseph Jezak]

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Steven Mezzadri wrote:
> Let me give you a bit more background:
> 
> I have tried for a few weeks now to get mol 0.70-0.71pre to run on several
> distributions of Linux (I spent the most time with Suse 10.1, Fedora 4, and
> Yellow Dog 4.1 because I am most familiar with RPM-based distros).
> 
> I have been able to compile your package "mol-0.9.71_pre8.tar.bz2" using
> "make / make install" successfully on most all of them, but after I'm done
> and have completed molvconfig the same thing always happens:
> 
> I type  "startmol -cdboot" with an OS9 cdrom in the drive or just "startmol"
> with a mac partition on the machine, I consistently get a white window with
> nothing in it..  No error messages in the console window either -- he
> machine just sits idle.  If I do "startmol -X" the window turns black or
> white then gray, checks the cd-drive for media, then quits, because I don't
> have OS X here, not even a boot CD... and even so, I want to run 9, not X.
> 
> Mol 0.68/0.69 works fine with OS9 on all Kernel 2.4-based linux
> distributions I've tried (best luck was with Mandrake 9.1/Yellowdog 3.0.1),
> but these older distributions lack a lot of other features I want, like ALSA
> sound support, newer GLIBC libraries, and other components.
> 
> The hardware we have here is an iMac/350 with 320 MB RAM, 7 GB HD, CD-ROM.
> We have 100's of these machines here and they run Linux very quickly, but to
> move them to linux, I need to keep the old OS 9 applications available.
> 
> I've been using Finnix 0.87 to image the machines and to create a bootable
> CD-ROM to duplicate my images on other iMacs, and that process works
> great...  Just need the magic touch now to turn that white screen into a
> "happy mac" :)
>  
> ~Steve~

It *should* work fine.  I have MacOS 9.2.2 that I use for testing here
and it does boot fine from a disk image with mol-0.9.71_pre8.  Can you
try deleting /var/lib/mol/nvram* and try again?

- -Joe
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