Hi all!

I'm working on a molk-kernel atm, ie. a linux-kernel directly booting
into your MacOSX via mol.
In fact as of kernel-size limitation it's a initrd-kernel (with splashscreen)
mounting a mini-squashfs as /usr/local/
(total size will at about estimated 7 MB)
your mol-cfgs and other things (f.e. your swap-partition) will be read
from your boot-partition which is mounted ro on bootup...

features so far:
- fullscreen of course (& only fullscreen)
- USB-support
- cds are recognized the way they should, (f.e. you can burn)
- other stuff

- TODO (the main reason why I post this thread, so please help if you can):
- ALSA correctly detects the on-board chip, but how do I get it to work
from within a kernel (I already tried a lot...)
- networking not yet fully working (I think I can get it to work, but help
is welcome anyway
- your suggestions!

cheers
frostwork

ps: when done the project promised to cdfr will be finished :)


edit: OK, just googled "advancecd-sources" which seem to have an initrd with alsa included... Will check this out...


[ Edited by Frostwork on 2005/9/16 19:37 ]

Sounds like a great project, please continue

Suggestion: What about an installer that installs the kernel, MOL and OSX on a partition, minimal hassle involved? Might make a good bounty, if possible.

Hi!

Here's a (wip-) list what will be installed per default onto the boothd:

molk (the kernel)
molk-data (the squash)
mol (directory containing usual mol-cfgs,fb_modes...)
mol/WIP (directory containing at least 1 script where user can
define his swap-partition & startmol -parameters like -cdboot :) )

;)

cheers
frostwork

>Might make a good bounty

Haha! People even do not reply on this thread
(feedback on the new "cd32-live" is still at zero,too).
It's getting annoying...

frostwork

Frostwork

This is a slow posting site and it has been having server issues as of late, so dont let it reflect on user interest/appreciation..

also, you are of course aware of PegXmac which does what you are attempting to do? Not only that but anyone with linux installed on peg can compile or use package versions of MOL as well ... but thanks for your efforts as well..

magnetic

> Haha! People even do not reply on this thread
> (feedback on the new "cd32-live" is still at zero,too).
> It's getting annoying...

What do you expect? I guess you want that people praise you into heaven and drool like never seen before, because you posted some text about some linux/macos mutation.

Ok so: Frostwork, you rock and you are great. I can't wait for all the great stuff you posted about to become reality. I already wet my pants beyond believe.

> - your suggestions!

Make it run in parallel with MorphOS, so it doesn't become yet another useless effort!

ps: when replied, the project promised to someone else will be finished :)

pps: promised ;)

ppps: ;)

pppps: Missplaced exclamation marks and smileys are intentional! :)

ppppps: SCNR

@Frostwork

>12 gb traffic on my side sharing the new cd-32 ...
so if you got no complains that means quite a few
happy users ...

gelb, what exactly is your prob?
( please no reply as i don't care about you)

thx robin!

frostwork

So, you didn't want praise and suggestions or replies at all. It wasn't really that obvious. Sorry.

ps: If you don't want a reply from someone you direct a question to, don't do it

@frostwork

HI !
I do really appreciate your efforts. I think your live-CDs are GREAT because turn my PegII in a Playstation-like workstation.
I am downloading now your CD32 CD because I couldn't do that before.
And, of course, I'll send you my feedback (and my questios on howto...) as soon as I try it.
Thank you for your job, and just keep it going, please.
What about a Freevo or (better) Mythtv cd???
I think many users are waiting in line.

@Gelbes

aren't you a bit rude?
By the way, no problem.
This forum is beautiful because everybody can post his impression.
Maybe you weren't that much impressed by live-Cds... This is just OK

BYE to all

Hi!

Gelb, you seem to have calmed down a bit so let me tell you the
following:
The main reason for opening WIP threads is that I need some help,
as I'm no developer-god ...
In this thread f.e. I look for help with activating alsa & network from within initrd...

When s.o. gives me feedback this of course makes me happy, but I
do not expect anybody giving me!!!! (Thank you mario ;) ---
ah, again one of my completely unprofessional smileys...).
When a proj. is finished it would be nice getting some
"bugreports" as I simply can't smell wether
everything works on every peg or not... (f.e. tv-out).

cheers
frostwork

ps: (yes a ps again. Any probs on that :) - smiley )
Freevo-live is still temporarily on ice, but I'll finish it...
MythTV is harder for me to "live-cd" it, not only as it needs MySQL...

I am looking forward for the AROS live CD (specialy if you find out a way to make it work on Pegasos and on Macs).

Thanks Frostworks.

Hi, cdfr!

I'll do my best to make it Mac-bootable/working...

Still no luck on getting alsa working from within initrd:
Both with compiled in and with alsa-modules the soundchip is detected
correctly and /proc/asound/ seems to have everything needed, but
somehow it doesn't want to open...
Maybe I should freeze molk temporarily to finish aros...

cheers
frostwork

Hi Frostwork,

slightly offtopic, but as you mentioned the 2nd
edition of the CD32-emu CD - I downloaded it -
unpacked and did not find a README, instead
only tar-Archives. So I stopped looking further
into it. Probably one should unpack cd32live-full.tar.gz? Or something else?

Regards & keep your good work,
cyberS

You may be interrested by this link:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=mol

Bye

Hi!

@cyberS:

>...only tar-Archives. So I stopped looking further
> into it. Probably one should unpack cd32live-full.tar.gz? Or something
> else?

Don't know how gunne uploaded it.
I made several tars - one full (probably cd32live-full.tar.gz you mentioned)
and several "modules" so you can choose what you need.
If you have the cd32live-full.tar.gz you in fact have to uncompress
it. There you'll find all required READMES :)
Good luck so far!

@NicoPPC:
Thanks for the link - really useful generally.
But alsa isn't already completely initialized from terminal
(maybe some device-nodes are missing, will recheck after aros...)

bye
frostwork