OK,
Your suggestion to mount the cdrom was a good one. I learned two things. One, I get errors when I mount it by hand. I did it by mkdir /cdrom, then mount -t hfsplus -o ro /dev/hdd /cdrom.
The errors I get are:
hdd:cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd:cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 {LastFailedSense=0x04}
ide:failed opcode was: unknown
This repeats 4 times. But I can then list the contents of the DVD! If I then issue "startmol -X --cdboot" it actually BOOTS! The installer starts up, and if I switch back to terminal, I don't see any of the read errors. It also finds hda3 (my partition set as -rw -force) in the terminal output.
However not all is good. When it gets to Select a destination, it shows a ghosted/read-only icon for MOL-Install (0 bytes) and Mac OS X Install CD (626 mb), but it does not list the hda3 partition.
I did try mounting the hda3 partition, but the terminal output showed it complained that it had to mount it read only since it was mounted in linux. So if it is getting mounted in startmol, why is it not getting listed in the installer? Do I need to use a specific file system or some other preprocess that I missed?
Any suggestions for this one (not to mention why I have to hand mount the drive???)
Thanks for your significant help. Anyone else is welcome to step in as well
Dan
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