mol problem. macosx partition locked. any suggestions?

[Bill Fink]

Roger,

All I can suggest is playing around with the resolution and depth
settings in the molrc.video config file.  Perhaps reducing the
resolution and/or depth would help.  Or using 24 instead of 32
for the depth (or vice versa) or 15 instead of 16 (or vice versa),
since some video cards and their drivers are finicky about such
things.  Using a resolution of 640/480/60 and a depth of 8 might
be a useful test as almost everything supports at least that, and
then trying to improve on that.

						-Bill



On 25 Aug 2004, Roger Scow wrote:

> That didn't help.  When I hit ctrl-7 repeatedly, I did get a small
> x-window that said the current screen depth and such not supported by
> the x-windows driver.
> 
> I went back to molvconfig and probed everything.
> 
> Still no joy.
> 
> RDS
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 20:00, Roger Scow wrote:
> > Hi, Bill.
> > 
> > Yes to only uncommented partition and -rw flag.  I didn't try the -boot
> > flag.  
> > 
> > I'll try it.
> > 
> > THanks.
> > 
> > RDS
> > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 19:47, Bill Fink wrote:
> > > Hi Roger,
> > > 
> > > On 25 Aug 2004, Roger Scow wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Sorry for the cross post.  I've asked before, but no joy on progress.
> > > > 
> > > > iBook 800.  MacOSX.3.5 partition on /dev/hda9.  YDL 3.0.1.  mol and
> > > > mol-kmods are up to date according to yum.  I've made appropriate
> > > > changes, I think to the molrc.osx config file, etc.  I've searched the
> > > > mol archives.
> > > > 
> > > > So, here's the deal:  When I type startmol -X, the full screen video
> > > > kicks in, the tux-loves-the-apple logo and the OSX spinning cogwheel
> > > > appear.  And that's it.  One hour later, no change.
> > > > 
> > > > When I get out of this (ctrl-f8) I can command-C and stop mol.  Or kill
> > > > <pid>.  The terminal shows no major kluges, but the mol.1.log shows
> > > > "/dev/hda9 this volume is locked".  
> > > > 
> > > > I've gone into OSX, repaired permissions, etc.  The only HFS+ partition
> > > > that has an operating system is hda9.  The other partitions are system
> > > > partitions, etc., but no OS there.  
> > > > 
> > > > How do I unlock the damn partition?  Mount shows no inappropriately
> > > > mounted volumes.  umount /dev/hda9 says that that volume isn't mounted.
> > > > 
> > > > Short of a YDL reinstall (which seems like a stupid thing to do), what
> > > > should I try next?
> > > 
> > > Is /dev/hda9 the only uncommented partition in your molrc.osx config
> > > file, and does it have "-rw" and "-boot" flags?
> > > 
> > > 						-Bill