[Pearpc-users] Darwin Kernel Panic when booting Darwin or OSX on Debian

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Hi everyone,

(I only got one response the first time, so this is a repost)

I'm trying to get PearPC working on my Debian box, but I've hit a road
block. Any help would be much appreciated.

I've seen similar problems posted before, but none of the suggested
solutions are working for me.

The basic problem is that the Darwin kernel panics early in the boot
process, resulting in the famous "panic: We are hanging here..." or the
graphical "You need to restart" message when I have verbose turned off
(prom_env_machargs=3D"") with OS X. PearPC itself doesn't report any
unusual errors, just the Darwin kernel.

I've tried booting several different images, and the same thing happens
with all of them:
- Mac OS X - 10.3 - Install Disk 1 (iso image)
- Darwin 7.0.1 - Install Disk downloaded from Apple (iso image)
- 3GB HD image of OS X 10.3 -- created by installing OS X using PearPC
  on a Win XP machine (this image boots and works great on WinXP).

I've also tried several different PearPC installs:
- Built from scratch from CVS using the altivec branch (0.4 pre)
- Built from scratch from CVS using the ppc_0_3_branch
- Built from scratch from a "G4" source package posted on Prasys
- The prebuilt Debian package from the Unstable feed

I've tried the following suggestions that I found in previous postings:
- Comment-out prom_env_machargs
- Set prom_env_machargs=3D"" or "-v"
- Comment out memory_size
- Set memory_size=3D0x10000000

System Details:
 AMD Athlon XP
 512 MB RAM
 Debian, unstable branch

More Details:

 Screenshot of kernel panic message when booting Darwin 7.0.1 CD image
 http://rubberspoon.com/pearpc/darwin-error.jpg

 Screenshot of kernel panic message when booting 3GB OS X HD image
 http://rubberspoon.com/pearpc/osx-error.jpg

 The config file I"m currently using:
 http://rubberspoon.com/pearpc/ppc.conf.txt

 The stdout from PPC:
 http://rubberspoon.com/pearpc/ppc.out.txt

I can also provide bootfile.dump if that"s helpful.

Thanks,
Marc