[Pkg-mol-devel] Bug#437467: Bug#437467: wants to use /usr/share/mol/drivers/openbios - which isn't there

[Bin Zhang]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Hannes Schulz <schulz at schwaar.com> wrote:
> --On 07. August 2008 17:48:52 +0200 Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz at debian.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Sorry for my late reply, but better late than never...
>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 08:16:44PM +0200, Hannes Schulz wrote:
>>> Package: mol
>>> Version: 0.9.72.1~dfsg-1
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>>
>>> The file /usr/share/mol/config/molrc.post contains the line
>>>     of_image:                        ${drv}/openbios
>>> twice. The file "/usr/share/mol/drivers/openbios" does not exist.
>>>
>>> The solution is easy:
>>>     of_image:                        ${drv}/of
>>> works for MacOS 9. I could not test OS X.
>>
>> Does this actually cause any problems? If not I'd rather leave the
>> default as set by the upstream author.
>>
>> For me MOL works fine with the default setting.
>>
>> Gaudenz
>>
>
> My old TiBook (/proc/cpuinfo says "PowerBook3,2") is unable to start MacOS9
> without my change.
>
> Here is the output of /var/log/mol.0.log *without* my change:
>
>> Running in PowerPC 7400 mode, 116 MB RAM
>> Timebase: 24.96 MHz, Bus: 99.86 MHz, Clock: 400 MHz
>> Using USB mouse on /dev/input/mice
>> OHCI USB controller registered
>> Fullscreen video on VT 8.
>> Cache enabled for console-video
>> Video driver(s): [console_video]
>>
>>     1152* 768, depth 8,15,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>>
>> No video mode match the default one.
>> Autoswitching to console
>> Ethernet Interface (port 1) 'tun-<tap1>' @ 00:00:0D:EA:DB:EE
>>
>>     ip/mask: 192.168.40.2/255.255.255.0  gw: 192.168.40.1
>>     broadcast: 192.168.40.255  nameserver: 192.168.40.1
>>
>> ALSA sound driver loaded (device 'default')
>> ALSA: failed to setup mixer
>>
>> Available Disks:
>>     HFS+  /dev/hda9        Roadwarrior    <rw> 4096 MB BOOT
>>     HFS   /dev/hda10       Janus          <rw> 1024 MB
>>
>> SCSI devices:
>>     [SCSI auto-probing disabled]
>>
>>     <No SCSI Devices>
>>
>> Can't read Elf32 image header
>> Fatal error: opening drivers/openbios: No such file or directory
>> cleaning up...
>> Terminating threads...
>
>
> Obviously my PowerBook needs this file.
>
> For reference: I have *no* file named openbios in
> /usr/share/mol/drivers. Neither mol nor mol-drivers-macos nor
> mol-drivers-linux seems to provide it.


Maybe this is a mol-drivers-linux bug.
mol-drivers-macos depends on mol-drivers-linux.
/usr/share/mol/drivers/of  is in mol-drivers-linux.
The upstream's deault setting uses  drivers/openbios. (
http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/OpenBIOS )


Regards,
Bin


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> These are the installed packages:
> ii  mol                                         0.9.72.1~dfsg-2
> ii  mol-drivers-linux           0.9.70+1-2
> ii  mol-drivers-macos           0.9.72.1-1
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> Note: mol-drivers-linux is older.
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> Hope that helps
>
> Hannes
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