On Thu, Jan 23, 2014, at 08:07 AM, Risto Suominen wrote:
> It's not that bad. One direction will always work. Actually I think > that you can mount the HFS+ partition, and if journaling is used, it > will be mounted (effectually) read only. In that case you could create > another partition without journaling. > > The reason I called it risky in this case, is that, if your machine > locks up when starting X, the partition will not be closed properly, > and might need some file checking. So it's probably better to use > something else than the system partition. > I got an exchange system working by: In the Linux install process, splitting the main partition to give a 1GB exchange partition at the top (it becomes /dev/sda5). After installing Linux, went into OSX and formatted the new partition (OSX sees it as disk0s5 as well as /dev/sda5) as Mac OS Extended (but not Journaled) using Disk Utility. In both systems, put a line in /etc/fstab (the format differs slightly) to mount the partition as '/Volumes/Exchange' , type 'hfsplus', options 'user,auto'. Now I can read from and write to that partition in both OSs, and if one takes exception to it I can boot into the other and reformat that partition. > > > > I did - but I don't know what I should be looking for apart from > > http://www.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages/#index8h2 > > > You could send the log here. There are simple command line tools for > sending mail. Not sure how they can handle attachments. But something > like this could work: > > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | mail -s 'Newbie installation questions' > debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org That's cool - I joined the Xorg list and sent the logs there. Only spam in reply so far though. > > Before you try that... One possible reason for X problems like yours > is KMS, Kernel Mode Setting. To disable it, you could try to create > the file /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf with following contents: > > options radeon modeset=0 > > The name 'radeon' is the name of the kernel module ('lsmod') loaded > for your graphics card. It may be something else in your case. > Thanks! I'll give that a go. GD -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1390484909.1062.74386521.6a976...@webmail.messagingengine.com
