Re: Does someone use grub?
Roger Leigh wrote:
> I tried grub2 out about a year or so ago. It had no way to boot
> OS X, and it failed to boot Linux as well (just froze up, I can't
> remember the details). This was on a G4 Mac Mini.
I'd tried it twice: first time using GRUB wiki as a guide; second and
last time so far I used someone's blog entry (which I can't seem to find
right now).
First time I made my system unbootable - I remember I had to use a
rescue CD as I might have removed yaboot in the process.
Last time I actually managed to get as far as GRUB console, but wasn't
able to boot to Linux even that way.
The biggest issue I had was the size of the boot partition - might be
too small to hold both yaboot and grub image with all the modules.
Second thing that's quite annoying is ybin wiping everything from the
boot partition every time it is run.
Not sure if doable but in theory one could chain-load yaboot from GRUB if
things go wrong.
I have to admit that I didn't dig into the whole thing deep enough but
if someone has a good (WORKING!) guide how to make GRUB work on PowerPC
I'll be more than happy to give it a go one more time.
> Things may well have improved for the better since then--I just
> went back to yaboot since I was more interested in having a
> working system than playing with bootloaders.
+1
Cheers,
--
Raf
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