G3 safe grub test
Hi,
after all this discussion about yaboot vs. grub and people having
reported issues on older macs, I can offer my take. I have a G3 PowerPC
iBook? I really do not want to reinstall everything, it takes time to
setup this machine.
I am using yaboot and everything works fine, very nice machine I do
love. I would be willing to test GRUB to see if my machine works, as I hope.
I wonder if there is a safe way to try out given my setup?
Please tell me how to and if in case of test there is a safe way of
getting back to yaboot.
I'm not attached to yaboot, actually a grub, on x86, proves to be easier
since it can have several old kernels, while yaboot is harder with that.
Do I need to resize my partitions? can I safely?
Thank you - Riccardo
mac-fdisk says:
/dev/sda
# type name length base
( size ) system
/dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/sda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 64
(977.0k) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/sda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1953125 @ 60424858
(953.7M) Linux swap
/dev/sda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 25195313 @ 2018
( 12.0G) Linux native
/dev/sda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home 35227527 @ 25197331
( 16.8G) Linux native
/dev/sda6 Apple_Free Extra 1 @ 62377983
( 0.5k) Free space
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=62377984
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