MOL & kernels

Fri Feb 13 11:00:02 2004

Mike,

I had the same problem and post a question to the MOL list at the end 
of 2003. A solution was send to me. The answer must be on the MOL list 
somewhere.  MOL is running fine and everything, accept for the built-in 
microphone, is working great. I can even network between ydl and mac 
osx. I start mol in a non graphical screen ( startmol --osx at runlevel 
3). I switch between ydl and macosx by pressing fn-ctrl-option-f7 and 
fn-ctrl-option-f8. Be sure you have the source files of the kernel 
installed otherwise you can't build rpm's. Succes.

Erik de Wild

*****
> Hi Erik !
> My advice's:
> First of all You must take two files from yellowdoglinux.com or any 
> other YDL
> mirror from SRPM
> directory for 3.0.1 and copy them in any free directory on your disk:
> mol-0.9.69-1a.src.rpm
> mol-kmods-0.9.69-1.2.4.22.2d.src.rpm
> Login as ROOT and remove MOL from your system:
> rpm -e mol
> rpm -e mol-kmods
> Check that folders are EMPTY ( /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES and 
> /usr/rpm/src/SPECS ) if
> Not - clear inside
> them. Stay in folder where you put *.src.rpm files and type:
> rpm -ihv mol-0.9.69-1a.src.rpm
> rpm -ihv mol-kmods-0.9.69-1.2.4.22.2d.src.rpm
> If O'k - It create files *.spec for Mol in /usr/src/rpm/SPECS and 
> SOURCE in
> /usr/src/SOURCES. Now:
> cd /usr/src/rpm
> rpmbuild -ba SPECS/mol-0.9.69-1a.spec
> rpmbuild -ba SPECS/mol-kmods-0.9.69-1.2.4.22.2d.spec
> If O'k - It create new RPM files of MOL for your KERNEL in 
> /usr/src/rpm/RPMS:
> cd /usr/src/rpm/RPMS
> rpm -i mol-kmods-0.9.69-1.2.4.22.2d.rpm
> rpm -i mol-0.9.69-1a.rpm
> Now you must adjust video for MOL and after this can start MOL:
> molvconfig
> startmol
> or
> startmol -X

Mike 'Lew' Lamar heeft op vrijdag, 13 feb 2004 om 04:15 
(Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven:

> A couple months ago I downloaded and installed YDL 3.0 on my G4.  I 
> had used Red Hat
> at work in the past, so I was excited to be able to have basically the 
> same system on my
> Mac at home, and using MOL sounded so cool that I could have the best 
> of both worlds
> on my computer at the same time.  Reality hasn't been so good however.
>
> When I ran MOL, it was nice to have access to all my Mac OS X 
> applications, but the networking
> was basically unusable, since I could not get email, or do 
> file-sharing through MOL.  I had
> gotten some mail suggesting that I update to the 2.4.22 kernel from 
> the 2.4.20-8d that was installed.
>
> So I did a 'yum update' and got kernel 2.4.22-2g, mol 0.9.69-1a, and 
> mol-kmods 0.9.69-3.2.4.22.2g
> installed on my machine.  Well the only problem is that this kernel 
> does not boot on my machine,
> and I get a kernel panic during the boot process.  If this is the same 
> kernel that is on the YDL 3.0.1
> installation, then that makes sense, because I could not boot from the 
> YDL 3.0.1 CD due to a
> kernel panic.  Strike 1.
>
> So then I find a source copy of kernel 2.4.22-ben2 along with the 
> necessary patch, and I build this
> one from source.  I'm thinking that this is pretty cool that I can 
> select the modules that I'm going
> to use, and this is what Linux is supposed to be all about.  Well I 
> get it built and installed, and it
> won't boot either.  My machine hangs on the part where it is 'checking 
> for new hardware'.
> Strike 2.
>
> OK, maybe there's another one that will work.  So I find kernel 
> 2.4.24-ben1-tss from ppckernel.org,
> and I download and install it.  This one boots and seems to work. Now 
> I can't run MOL, because
> it is expecting that I run from kernel 2.4.22, not 2.4.24.  The 
> message from MOL suggests that I
> recompile the mol-kmods.  Well I get some compile errors, and this one 
> won't work either.
> Foul ball, still strike 2.
>
> So I'm not sure where to go from here.  I really would like to have 
> the linkage between Linux and
> my Mac OS X via MOL and also hflplus utilities, but I'm close to 
> striking out here.  If anyone
> out there has an answer to this, I would appreciate it a lot.
> -- 
> Mike 'Lew' Lamar - Web Designer & Programmer
> http://www.abbaroo.com/
> "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither"
> 	- Ben Franklin
>
>
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