Mac-on-Linux?

[Joshua Wehner]

Well... That did something.

I did have start_on_console set to *no*. So, that confused me a bit. 
But, I changed auto_switch_console from "yes" to "no" and voila! I got 
Mac-On-Linux in a itty-bitty window on my desktop.

However, the window was wonky. MOL never actually started; I didn't see 
the Penguin-hugging logo. The desktop clip wasn't "live" - heck, the 
window wasn't "live": whatever moved in front of that window (other 
windows, menus, etc) got stuck there.

So, on a whim, I tried "startmol -X". I got a similar size window, with 
a logo and a button that said "The current video mode/resolution is 
unsupported by your X settings" (or something like that, it flipped by 
pretty quick). mol then shutdown, saying "no bootable drives" (which is 
probably accurate, I have no bootable OS X drive).

Okay... So, I tried to change the color depth, I set it to 16 and tried 
plain "startmol" again. I got a different-size window (looks 640x ish 
to me) but it's plain grey, and nothing happens.

With the color depth set to 16 (or 8, or any other random value I've 
tried), I get the following:

- with "startmol" - a large (640x ish) window that's grey the whole 
time. "startmol" throws errors about sheep, then seems to switch to TUN 
and assigns an IP. That's the last message before I exit.

- with "startmol -X" - a large window appears, starts grey, turns blue, 
then disappears shortly after. In the console, there are errors about 
not having a bootable disk.

- I've also tried this with --cdboot (with an 8.6 OS CD in the drive) 
but nothing changes from the above. Results are the same as without 
"--cdboot".


I feel like I'm getting closer, though!


-- Joshua


On Feb 25, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:07:09 -0600, Joshua Wehner
> <josh.wehner at ultratec.com> wrote:
>> I did run molvconfig. I just ran it again to make sure, and tested
>> every single video mode available. No dramatic change in my results.
>>
>> However, when I say "blank black screen", I mean that the video seems
>> to shift into console mode, but nothing after that. What is worth
>> nothing, though, is I do see the end ("*** DONE *** ") of the video
>> probe on that screen, if I've run the probe recently.
>
> OK, so it sounds like MOL is switching you to vt 9 (or whatever
> virtual terminal you have set in /etc/mol/molrc.video ). You might
> open molrc.video and change start_on_console to "no" -- that's how I
> have mine set -- MOL opens in a window, and because I have
> enable_console_video set to "on" I can switch to full screen in vt 9
> when I want to, and back to X windows in vt 6 while MOL is still
> running.
>
> This is actually still a stab in the dark -- pardon the pun -- I'm
> just hoping the problem is a video mis-match, and maybe you can at
> least see the MOL startup icon (the penguin hugging an apple) when it
> launches in a window instead of the full screen. You might also check
> the startup resolution and depth settings -- I have mine set pretty
> small, and a fairly small window opens when MOL starts, then the
> window changes size and video depth to whatever I have in Mac OS once
> the Mac OS starts booting.
>
> ...
> # 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Startup Resolution (this is used as a hint only)
> # 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> #
>
> resolution:             800/600/30      # width/height/Hz
> depth:                  16
>
> ...
>
> (Don't copy my Hz setting -- this Mac has an LCD screen and you should
> probably use whatever molvconfig said for the frequency (Hz), but as
> far as I know you can put whatever you want in the width & height
> settings. I'm mentioning this because it IS possible to damage a
> monitor or LCD if you use a weird frequency setting for too long. The
> bad ones are often accompanied by unusual images and noises, so you
> would know if you got it wrong.)