<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Caroline</div><div><br></div>I can only think of three ways of doing this:<div><br></div><div>1.  Offer a Mac-specific SoaS;</div><div>2.  Add an extra option to the boot menu to allow Mac booting;</div><div>3.  Use a (modified?) initrd to try to detect whether the computer is a Mac, after the bootloader but before loading the full kernel, and then boot accordingly with the correct kernel option. I've experimented with initial ramdisks, but I don't recall this being possible...</div><div><br></div><div>I'll be able to investigate this in more detail next week. Does anyone else have a better solution...?</div><div><br></div><div>Amir</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 18 Jun 2009, at 14:23, Caroline Meeks wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">We've been having an issue on some newer macs with the screen going blank.  Deds and Pauline have been working on the issue and here is what they have discovered that works.<br><br><p> Note that this is using standard keyboard and not the apple one.  If using apple keyboard you might need to change the keys you press.  The following is what I did: </p> <ol><li>I plugged the latest SoaS (Soas2-200905241902.iso) and boot helper (soas-boot-20090615.iso) in the mac mini and then booted up.</li><li>At the sound of the chime, I immediately pressed the ALT key until the boot options appear.  (options that appeared on the mac mini are Macintosh HD and Windows, with Windows pertaining to the SoaS)</li><li>Select Window. </li><li>As soon as you see the blue screen which says automatically logging in n seconds... Press the TAB key.  This should display the boot menu</li><li>At the boot menu press the TAB key to display the kernel boot parameters.  </li><li>At the end of the displayed parameters, type "nomodeset" and press ENTER. This should start up sugar</li> </ol> So what does nomodeset actually do? <br><br><blockquote style="max-width: 700px;"><p> It disables this <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KernelModesetting">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KernelModesetting</a> </p><p> Introduced in FC10 but has been having problems with some graphic chipsets (including Intel GMA 950 which is in the Mac Mini).  AFAICT it can be safely disabled with no adverse effects on stability. </p> </blockquote>Is there a way we can modify SoaS so that mac users don't have to do this but it still works for everyone?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br><a href="mailto:Caroline@SolutionGrove.com">Caroline@SolutionGrove.com</a><br><br> 617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br> _______________________________________________<br>Sugar-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>