mol problem. macosx partition locked. any suggestions?

[mascarasnake]

Hey Roger, I'll toss a few ideas to you - I don't know if they'll be of 
any help - These are just shots in the dark.

Try booting MOL with the OS X install CD

If you have an OS 9 partition, can you boot mol with that?

If you added a blkdev line to your molrc file, try removing it and 
allowing the script to run through and auto detect the drive. I added 
'/dev/hda' to mine (OldWorld) and got a doubling of my HDD when MOL 
started. On the NewWorld, the OF may be getting locked up trying to 
access the same partition over and over - just a guess.

Try running MOL as root - a la:
	sudo startmol -X

Have you tried to mount 'hda9' directly in Linux? ( I double checked 
your old posts and you said you're running 3.0.1 - You should be able to 
mount HFS+ parts) You never explicitly said that you had ever mounted 
that partition, just checked to ensure that it *wasn't* mounted.

Try checking ownership and permissions for '/dev/hda*'. Ownership should be:
	ls -l /dev/hda*
<snip>
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   9 Jan 30  2003 /dev/hda9
</snip>

Check if you have Open Firmware password enabled. If it is, that may be 
interfering with MOL being able to access that volume.

I know, I know, I'm reaching, just ideas - things I would check out.

g'luck

Roger Scow wrote:
> Sorry for the cross post.  I've asked before, but no joy on progress.
> 
> iBook 800.  MacOSX.3.5 partition on /dev/hda9.  YDL 3.0.1.  mol and
> mol-kmods are up to date according to yum.  I've made appropriate
> changes, I think to the molrc.osx config file, etc.  I've searched the
> mol archives.
> 
> So, here's the deal:  When I type startmol -X, the full screen video
> kicks in, the tux-loves-the-apple logo and the OSX spinning cogwheel
> appear.  And that's it.  One hour later, no change.
> 
> When I get out of this (ctrl-f8) I can command-C and stop mol.  Or kill
> <pid>.  The terminal shows no major kluges, but the mol.1.log shows
> "/dev/hda9 this volume is locked".  
> 
> I've gone into OSX, repaired permissions, etc.  The only HFS+ partition
> that has an operating system is hda9.  The other partitions are system
> partitions, etc., but no OS there.  
> 
> How do I unlock the damn partition?  Mount shows no inappropriately
> mounted volumes.  umount /dev/hda9 says that that volume isn't mounted.
> 
> Short of a YDL reinstall (which seems like a stupid thing to do), what
> should I try next?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Roger
> 
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