Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

[Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>]

On 27.05.23 04:52, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 02:14:16PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> > As per `grub-install(8)`:
> >
> > ```
> > grub-install copies GRUB images into boot/grub.
> > ```
> >
> > As the call to `grub-install` is performed by `chroot` inside the root
> > FS of the new installation, I assume the FAT bootstrap partition is
> > already mounted as `/boot` at this time of the installation. I think
> > this happens after all data partitions were formatted earlier during the
> > Debian installation but before any files are installed. Thus making the
> > call succeed w/o an explicit boot device or target directory argument.
>
> I am pretty sure /boot can NOT be fat since it has to store files from
> packages (like the kernel).  /boot/grub on the other hand might be able
> to be fat.  Similar to how you can have /boot/efi be fat on x86 but not
> /boot itself.

Right, that makes more sense. When the OF bootstrap partition is a HFS
partition, it's mounted on `/boot/grub`, too. Thanks for pointing that out.

Cheers,
Frank