[Spam?] Re: MOL running Mac

[Steven Mezzadri]

I just wiped my machine and installed YellowDog 4.0 which Henry Leinhos has
had luck with.  I am going to try his suggestions as well as yours, and with
any luck it will work with some combination.

I have started with the base YellowDog MOL 0.9.71.pre1 which is known not to
work with OS 9, and I deleted the /var/lib/mol/nvram* and it recreated it on
the next run, but still the white screen.

So, I uninstalled YDL's mol pacakges, rebooted to get the kernel module out
of memory, and proceeded to compile the 0.9.71.pre8 from the package you
gave me.  As usual it compiled without any problems.
  
Still, when I tried "startmol" and "startmol --cdboot" with the new version,
both brought up the white screen with nothing in it. (same symptom as the
broken YDL package).  (startmol -X still appears to work, but I'm not
running X).

Something of note, with your pre8 release, it did not create any
/var/lib/mol/nvram* files.

So, I guess what would you recommend I try next?

Newer kernels - http://ppckernel.org/
Patches - ?
Manually copy /var/lib/mol/nvram* files from YDL's version?
Other - ?


~Steve~



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[mailto:mol-general-bounces at lists.maconlinux.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Jezak
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:51 AM
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Subject: [Spam?] Re: MOL running Mac

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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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