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TWIMC --

This is a follow-up to my previous question. I found
the answer to my problems, and felt compelled to share.

I just verified this last night, as others have in the
MkLinux-PPC listservs:  There is an extension conflict
between the MkLinux Booter and HFS+ formatted volumes
(maybe with the Text Encoding Converter library perhaps?).

(Of course, b/c HFS+ is a new introduction to the world,
your MkLinux or LinuxPPC setup will NOT be able to
read an HFS+ volume is anyway, even if "hmount" succeeds.
The last paragraph describes a problem when booting
MacOS 8.1, NOT Linux.)

The only fix available right now (I'd be surprised if
the Apple/OSF team wasn't working on something as I
write this) is to disable the MkLinux Booter and reboot.

Just so you know; more later as this issue develops,
--  Dan C.

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Quote:> The only fix available right now (I'd be surprised if
> the Apple/OSF team wasn't working on something as I
> write this) is to disable the MkLinux Booter and reboot.

> Just so you know; more later as this issue develops,

Well, I'm not the only soul to describe this problem, actually.
It seems to that some other variable is mucking the equation:

HFS+ + MkL_Booter + Something_Evil = Unmounted_volumes

But I don't know what.  

I'll try sometime in the next few days to investigate this
further, and post my results. For the record, I'm running MkL on
a PowerCenter Pro 180..

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Quote:> Well, I'm not the only soul to describe this problem, actually.
> It seems to that some other variable is mucking the equation:
> HFS+ + MkL_Booter + Something_Evil = Unmounted_volumes
(snip)
> I'll try sometime in the next few days to investigate this
> further, and post my results. For the record, I'm running MkL on
> a PowerCenter Pro 180..

After various MkLinux Booter failures, I changed my lone HFS+
partition back to HFS Standard.  And, lo and behold, MkL booted
rather nicely.  (This followed aborted attempts to boot with
the monolithic kernel setup.)

Anyway, I got a rude surprise when MkL booted again: most of
the inodes in my /usr partition and some in root were completely
hosed!!!  This was a major corruption problem! I had to reinstall
everything from the MkL 2.1r0 CDs, the various updates, etc. and
thanked &diety; that we had a 2nd dialup line here in our ba*t
home office.  (And that what little data there was was backed
up at various locations.)

As you can tell, the system is approaching its former self slowly
and painfully.  So, I can't admonish you enough:

IF YOU ARE USING HFS+ WITH THE LATEST BOOTER, YOU ARE IN EFFECT
PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH YOUR FILESYSTEMS.  

Sorry for yelling.  I'm kinda annoyed at what I had to go through
(such as an entire day of work becoming a complete wash-out, not
to mention being glued to this keyboard all weekend).  

Attention MkLinux team:  I don't have a partitioning layout
map readily available (I'll need to boot up on MacOS and run
FWB HDT to get it).  If you want one for debugging purposes,

word and it's yours..

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Hi, HFS+ volumes causes the mklinux booter to hang the system
on bootup on my 6100, but I worked around the problem
putting the MkBooter the kernel and all the necessary stuff
on a zip cartridge where I put my old trusty minimal
system 7.1.2.
It occupies a little more than 2 MB on disk and when I want
to boot MkLinux I just restart holding down
the alt,apple,shift,backspace keys to boot from the external
zip. It works.

Quote:> It occupies a little more than 2 MB on disk and when I want
> to boot MkLinux I just restart holding down
> the alt,apple,shift,backspace keys to boot from the external
> zip. It works.

Thx,

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