Bug#774926: marked as done (debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #774926,
regarding debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
grub-ieee1275 is a powerful and effective bootloader for powerpc
machines. It is significantly more flexible at runtime than yaboot, and
provides a user experience more roughly comparable with installs on i386
and amd64 machines.
Please have debian-installer on powerpc default to grub-ieee1275
instead of yaboot, not only in expert mode but also default mode.
See #664128
yaboot is pretty much dead upstream (last release is from 2011) and it
is unusable on some arches or setup (#719479, #495930, #697813,
#322540).
Thanks
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tags 774926 wontfix
thanks
It seems to be somewhat implemented using the undocumented trick from
bug #664128. This is not clear if this works for powermac.
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