RE: Tiger and MOL

I see the same problem after compiling from mol-rsync (after applying both
the compile fix and tiger patches), booting for the first time (with no
problems), and installing the OS X drivers (i.e., after the last step I
get the bootloader: out of memory error).

Toby

> Mattias Nissler wrote on  Tue Jul 19 15:50:26 MDT 2005:
>
>> now here is where you can get the patch enabling MOL to run Tiger from:
>> http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/mol/index.html
>> Please note that I only implemented a handler for the stmw assembly
>> instruction when used for writing the page table. This was the
>> problem that made MOL fail to run Tiger. However, I haven't checked
>> the rest of MOLs infrastructure. This means that Tiger might still
>> cause imcompatibilities, missing acceleration (it seems there is some
>> accel stuff missing) and so on.
>
> Awesome... after a bit of tweaking, I have MOL/Tiger running on Ubuntu
> Breezy on  my Powerbook G4, compiled from the Ubuntu sources :)  (Although
> I do have to load the mol kernel module myself with insmod rather than
> modprobe, for some reason... haven't worked that one out yet.)
>
> Anyone know the prospects of getting the OSX-side drivers to work with
> Tiger anytime soon, so I can have networking again?  Since they're kernel
> extensions I assume they need to change a bit for 10.4.  (They still
> install just fine, but when I try to start MOL afterwards, I just get a
> "bootloader: out of memory" error.)
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.


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