MOL works on PB3400
MOL on PB3400 confirmed:
Mac-on-Linux (mol-0.9.21) boots Mac OS 8.6 from an HFS partition on a
PowerBook 3400 (603e) running Debian potato. (No, I haven't confirmed
that it works under LinuxPPC, but I thought you might like the data
point anyway. ;-)
Man, it's a thrill seeing Mac OS boot in Linux. Kind of like seeing NT
boot in a Vmware virtual machine in Linux on a PC, but to me it's even
cooler. Thank you, Samuel and other contributors, for working on
this. I'm excited by what you're accomplishing.
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To get MOL to work, I patched Paul Mackerras' stable kernel source,
retrieved via rsync, with Ben H./Shawn O.'s 3400-ethernet patches,
which among other things let the 3400's built-in Ethernet work
beautifully. They're available at
<http://calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40/patch_2.2.13_ben1.tgz>.
Then I applied the mol-kernel-pmac-stable patch in the mol-0.9.21
tarball. Built the patched 2.2.13 kernel, captured a PowerMac 8500
ROM image, created a boot floppy, and so on, all according to the
setup instructions in mol-0.9.21/Doc.
I couldn't get the mol binary or mol.o module to build, apparently
because I'm lacking <libiberty.h>, so I used mol and mol.o from
mol-0.9.21.bin.tgz (now in the Old/ subdirectory) at
<ftp://ftp.nada.kth.se/home/f95-sry/Public/mac-on-linux/>.
As I was jumping up and down seeing Mac OS boot in Linux, I noticed
that Samuel has posted a newer version, mol-0.9.22. The newer version
may be even more elegant, as it's not supposed to require a patched
kernel.
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Question: Once Mac OS has booted and taken over the full screen, you
can drop back to a console (as usual) with Ctrl-Cmd-F1. But how do you
get back to Mac OS?
Thanks, guys!
Mike
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Mike James <mwjames@pobox.com>
Mac OS & Linux advocate,
Sair Linux and GNU Certified Professional
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