Subject: Re: MOL on my pismo... it works
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (bh40@calva.net)
Date: Sun Jun 04 2000 - 06:42:40 MDT
On Sun, Jun 4, 2000, Francois Felix Ingrand <felix@ingrand.net> wrote:
>What should be the fb.modes for a pismo:
>1024x768x75?
I'm using 1024x768x60. There's no point in trying to increase the
vertical refresh on an LCD and you'll save bandwidth on the video chip SGRAMs.
>Where can I find a clearer explanation of this various flags:
>
>start_on_console: no # switch to console initially
>
>Does it switch to VT8 upon startup?
Yep.
>Basically, I do not want the MOL X window, I just want the console (VT8),
>and switch with <whatever-keys-work>F7/F8
just set enable_xvideo: no
and all other ones to yes.
>Last, you cannot mount RW a partition under Linux and Mol... this make file
>sharing a little bit difficult between them. Any suggestions?
What I do is to explicitely define individual partitions in molrc so that
the main HFS partition (never mounted in linux) is RW, and only the
'exchange' partition gets read-only when mounted in linux. I still need
to reboot to change it's status however.
An interesting evolution would be to have some way to dynamically
unmount/remount volumes in MacOS. Doesn't look a very difficult task, if
someone has time to hack this ;)
Another possiblity is to setup a local netatalk server and mount it from
the MacOS side. You still need to have one reserved HFS (I use HFS+ for
this one) for booting MacOS (MacOS doesn't like booting on a read-only
volume).
Ben.
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