[Spam?] Re: MOL running Mac

[Tommy Trussell]

On 5/23/06, Steven Mezzadri <smezzadr at livonia.k12.mi.us> wrote:
> 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 - ?

I have not seen the problem you may be having with mol on your system,
but I have had no trouble running Mac OS 9.2.2 using the mol 0.9.70
packaged in Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger." I did add the "niceness"
patch for improved performance under the stock kernel. Oh, and the
kernel modules need to be compiled, but that's easy to do.

I see that Dapper will have the modules compiled, but whoever wrote
the wiki is having trouble running OS 9....

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacOnLinuxHowto