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. --- 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. --- 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 -- Mike James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mac OS & Linux advocate, Sair Linux and GNU Certified Professional Memphis, TN USA * Eternity begins now.
