On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:10:50AM -0700, David Brown wrote: > I think it is apple's attempt to make things look like there is no OF, and > the computer just boots MacOS. If you press CMD-OPT-OF and then type boot, > the output comes out. yup, that is exactly what they are doing, they seem to be disabling terminal output. if we can find the right way to reinstall the console then everything will work again, but it seems the standard OF command `install-console' does something different on macs... > Have you tried changing the boot command to boot rather than mac-boot. > boot might allow the screen output to come out. i would like to see if that works on his machine. on my machine it makes no difference, i can see text i write directly into the framebuffer but i cannot see text i write to the OF equivilent of stdout. but if i boot into OF first then boot my script i can see text written to stdout. so it would appear that apple installs part of the console but not all of it unless you enter the OF prompt. (if the entire console was disabled then you would not be able to type anything into my menu or yaboot.) > > i am getting VERY tempted to disable the mac-boot command altogether > > but 1) that is not a great solution and 2) it still may not solve all > > the problems. > > Would it hurt to have boot be the normal boot command, and then is MacOS is > selected, then run mac-boot? actually my dual bootscript already uses the `boot' command to load macos, there is nothing special about mac-boot in regards to booting macos. all mac-boot does is emulate the oldworld behavior of searching for bootable partitions and disks, and checking for the `c' key being held down along with most of the other obscure key incantations old machines had. i dissasembled the mac-boot command and read through all its functions, there is one place on my machine where it appears to disable text echo, but my attempt to turn it back on did not seem two work. now that i change the console colors myself the only difference users would see if i quietly changed the boot-command is if for some reason booting from the bootstrap partition fail they would be dropped into OF. and tricks like holding down the c key would no longer work. (option key trick would probably be broken too) mac-boot quietly starts looking for other partitions/disks/network to boot from if any boot attempt fails. breaking the option key and `c' key tricks is not very nice IMO so i would rather find a way to renable the full console rather then just end run around mac-boot. (it would REALLY help if apple would PROPERLY document thier OF implementation) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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