Subject: Errata for YDL 2.0 MOL Installation Instructions
From: Bill Fink (billfink@capu.net)
Date: Sat Jun 09 2001 - 10:51:49 MDT
There is a problem with the YDL 2.0 MOL installation instructions if
your Mac OS ROM file is on an HFS+ volume (see attached message from
Samuel Rydh). Basically the following line in the YDL 2.0 Installation
Guide (and on-line Engineers' Notes):
hpcopy "Mac OS ROM" /usr/lib/mol/rom/rom.nw
needs to be changed to:
hpcopy -r "Mac OS ROM" /usr/lib/mol/rom/rom.nw
Samuel also reported in another e-mail message that future versions
of MOL won't even require copying the Mac OS ROM file to the Linux
side, as they will read the Mac OS ROM file directly from the HFS/HFS+
MacOS volume. But for the current MOL version shipping with YDL 2.0,
the copy is still required, with the change noted above for HFS+.
The on-line Engineers' Notes for YDL 2.0 needs to be corrected, and
this should probably also be mentioned in the Release Errata since
the hardcopy Installation Guide is also erroneous.
-Bill
On Sat Jun 09 2001, Samuel Rydh wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:34:03PM -0700, Bacil D. Warren, Lead Programmer wrote:
> >
> > After the following:
> >
> > hpmount /dev/sda7
> > hpcd "System Folder"
> > hpcopy "Mac OS ROM" /usr/lib/mol/rom/rom.nw
> > hpumount
> >
> > And then editing the molrc to point to the right device, whenever I type
> > startmol I get a terminal window, which goes full screen, and then dies with
> > a message that rom/rom.nw isn't an ELF?
>
> The problem is that hpcopy maes a MacBinary encoding.
> You should copy it as a raw file instead:
>
> hpcopy -r "Mac OS ROM" /usr/lib/mol/rom/rom.nw
>
> Good Luck,
>
> /Samuel
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