Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4
> On Jan 29, 2019, at 12:00 AM, Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:45:10PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>> I realize that this may require some programming, but would it be possible
>>> to have it ask a question early on (maybe at or before the beginning of
>>> partitioning) requesting the user to choose between yaboot and grub? Then
>>> the partitioner would automatically create the necessary partition(s) and
>>> “install boot loader” would automatically install the chosen boot loader
>>> conditioned on the answer to the question…
>>
>> Yaboot is unmaintained upstream and does not support modern ext4 features. In
>> order for Yaboot to work properly, you have to turn certain features in ext4
>> off, otherwise it won't work and the boot fails.
>
> Can you not have an ext3 boot partition and the rest of the OS on
> an ext4 partition?
>
> Cheers
> Michael.
Hi Michael,
I don’t know if it works with ext3, but I can personally vouch for it with ext2.
Rick
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