Subject: Re: MOL help needed
From: David Rowe (drowe@plymouth.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 03:26:35 MST
on 25/1/01 1:44 am, Sam Moore at samiwas@macconnect.com wrote:
> I've been scratching my head about this for two days.
> You're on 9.1, right?
> What kind of hardware is it? (G3, iMac, etc)
>
> On 1/22/01 at 2:41 PM, cfairman@Stanford.EDU (Carolyn Jean Fairman) wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Sam Moore <smoo@lungta.org> wrote:
>>
>> There should be a "Mac OS ROM" file in your Mac System Folder -
>> that's the one
>> you want. (It should also be in the System Folder of your MacOS
>> install CD, but
>> I don't know about the upgrader disk...)
>>
>> That's just it -- I can't find this file on my Mac! Is there any way
>> I can use a generic one found elsewhere?
>>
>> Carolyn
>
> Sam Moore <smoo@lungta.org>
I have just been through this one!
There are two types of Mac in this respect.
Macs before iMac & B&W towers are 'Old World' and all the 'ROM' really is in
ROM.
(It is all explained in Apple Technotes TN1061, TN1062, TN1044, TN1167)
So there is no need for the ROM image to be stored in the system folder - I
presume the MacOS installer is smart enough to know this.
In order to get hold of the ROM image, you have to use an apple utility
'tomeview' to extract it from the MacOS installation CD. These is a link for
obtaining tomeview on
http://www.maconlinux.org/download.html
However, the new 'coloured Macs' are 'New World' and the only thing that
really is in ROM is the booting software. The MacOS Toolbox software which
was in ROM since the earliest Macs (and which is what Mac-on-Linux needs to
work), has been moved into RAM, so it must be loaded from disc at boot time.
Hence on coloured Macs you will find that there really is a file called 'Mac
OS ROM' already in your System Folder - no need for tomeview.
Try the instructions on:
http://www.maconlinux.org/userguide.html
http://www.turbolinux.com/~brad/mol/
-- David Rowe .................................................................... Room 116, 9 Kirkby Place School of Computing, University of Plymouth Ph: (01752) 232561 Fax: (01752) 232540
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