MOL 0.9.65

[Nigel Horne]

On Friday 06 Dec 2002 11:03 pm, Dylan Hand wrote:
> If you are trying to boot Mac OS X, you need to edit the "molrc.osx"
> file in /etc/mol/ and add your OS X partition (seems like it's hda5).
> Then when you start MOL, use the --osx modifier so it looks like:
>
> startmol --osx

Hi Dylan,

Many thanks for your e-mail. That suggestion did indeed help. MOL now seems to 
boot - I get the spinning circle mouse pointer (at this stage I thought it 
was going to work), then it shut itself down for no reason that I could see:

[root@mac mol]# startmol --osx
Mac-on-Linux 0.9.65 Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Samuel Rydh
Starting MOL session 5
Config dir: /etc/mol
Data dir: /usr/share/mol/0.9.65
Session 5. Lockfile: /var/lock/mol-5
Debugger nub disabled
The session save/restore feature is disabled
OF device tree: oftrees/oftree.x
Timebase frequency: 24.96 MHz
96MB RAM mapped at 0x40000000
Running in PowerPC G4 mode
Using Linux keycodes
pci.c: Doesn't look lika a PCI device
heathrow: Couldn't get pci device number
MOL PIC found
No nvram found in device tree
Using nvram-image '/var/lib/mol/nvram.x'
nvram, read_image: open: No such file or directory
Creating nvram-image '/var/lib/mol/nvram.x'
FIXME: IRQ assignement and device identification
xvideo: X11 video depth 565
Could not open '/var/lib/mol/x11.kbd'
Video module 'xvideo' installed.
Running on VT 8.
Could not open '/var/lib/mol/console.kbd'
Using usb mouse on /dev/input/mice
Cache enabled for console-video
Video module 'console_video' installed.

MODE:  640* 480, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE:  800* 600, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE: 1024* 768, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE: 1152* 768, depth 8,15,32   { 54.7 } Hz
MODE: 1152* 864, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE: 1280*1024, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz
MODE: 1600*1200, depth 8,15   { 0.0 } Hz

No video mode match the default one.
Starting in video mode 640*480, depth 8, 0.0 Hz  [offs:0, rb:640]
DHCP nameserver exported: 192.168.8.2
Ethernet Interface 'tun-<tun5>' @ 00:00:0D:EA:DB:EE

Disk /dev/hda5                           <read-only>  13034 MB BOOT

Boot device: /mol-blk/disk@0:0
<*> -------------------------------------------
<*> MacOS X boot loader started
<*> Trying to load /mol-blk/disk@0:0,\mach_kernel.mol
<*> Opening partition [/mol-blk/disk@0:0]...
<*> Trying to load /mol-blk/disk@0:0,\mach_kernel
<*> mach kernel read (3169824 bytes)
<*> mol owned memory at 003CF000 (1000)
<*> mregs mapped @ 003d0000 (2000)
<*> MacOS X mkext driver archive read (106988 bytes)
<*> DriversPackage-3d4000
<*> Command line: ''
<*> Framebuffer at 81000000 (640x480)
<*> Jumping to kernel entrypoint...
<*> -------------------------------------------
Read from unimplemented SPR #1014
Read from unimplemented SPR #1015
<*> MOL acceleration for 10.1 (and later)
<*> MolBlockDriver::starting
<*> MolEnet::start
<*> MolEnet: setPowerState 1
cleaning up...
Terminating threads...
DONE

> Hope that helps,
> Dylan

-Nigel

-- 
Nigel Horne. Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Typesetter.
Owner of the brass band group of the Internet. ICQ#20252325
njh@bandsman.co.uk http://bandsman.co.uk