mol problem. macosx partition locked. any suggestions?

[Roger Scow]

Well, Bill, I tried that.  No joy.  Weird.  My /var/log/mol.1.log file
doesn't have any errors anymore, either.  Likewise, of course, the
output in the terminal.

Still getting the resolution/depth not supported.

I'm stumped.

Roger

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 02:50, Bill Fink wrote:
> 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