mol problem. macosx partition locked. any suggestions?
Bill Fink
yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:47:45 -0400
Hi Roger,
On 25 Aug 2004, 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?
Is /dev/hda9 the only uncommented partition in your molrc.osx config
file, and does it have "-rw" and "-boot" flags?
-Bill