Booting OS X without quartz/aqua Darwin style.

[clawhammerX]

Back in the old days you used to be able to edit /etc/ttys to skip the loginwindow and boot directly to a console login. This doesn't seem to be possible now probably thanks to launchd. Anybody know of a way to do this? Its not very crucial but I am curious to see if its doable. Seems like it should be.

Thanks

 

[bobtheflyingsquirrel]

I'm not aware of a way to have OS X boot into a command line every time.

However, you can boot it into single-user mode, which is a command line with root permissions, by typing in "-s" on the Chimera screen or by holding command-S on startup on a real Mac.

I'm not sure if this is what you wanted, but this is a way to access the command line on startup.

 

[clawhammerX]

I was thinking more of a way of getting X11, Gnome etc installed on OS X the way you used to be able to do on Darwin. Treating OS X as a Linux distro or FreeBSD. I know its kind of defeats the purpose of the hackintosh but you used to be able to do it on real macs in the OS X 10.3 days. With 10.4 and on they did some magic that makes everything better.