Mac on Linux - booting Old World Macs

[R. Hirschfeld]

> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:09:49 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Norberto Quintanar <nquintanar@yahoo.com>
> 
> To boot MOL on an old world mac one needs to install a boot rom.
> 
> <http://www.maconlinux.org/userguide/oldworld.html>
> 
> I've linked to the guide 

This is potentially misleading (or at least confusing).  The above
link is to instructions for booting MOL with an Old World ROM, which
is only desirable for older OS versions that don't have New World
support.  For newer versions of MacOS (8.6 and later) MOL should be
booted with a New World ROM (even on Old World Macs!).  A New World
ROM file isn't normally placed in the System Folder when installing
MacOS on an Old World Mac, so either it will have to be copied from
the CD separately or else the system should be installed from within
MOL booted from the CD (the latter is recommended).  An alternative is
to keep the ROM file on the Linux side and specify it in the config
file /etc/mol/molrc.macos.

Ray