Re: grub-ieee1275 on powerbook G4

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

* John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> [2018-03-07 15:26 +0100]:

> On 03/07/2018 03:13 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > I've rebooted my powerbook again via grub-ieee1275 and landet in
> > grub_rescue complaining "error symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not
> > found"
> 
> Did you follow that guide?
> 
> > http://cynic.cc/blog/posts/running_grub2_on_powerpc_macs/

No. grub was working perfect for about 4 years now. From of prompt
choose linux and the grub screen popped up, though

> 
> Getting GRUB working on PPC Macs is not fully supported by Debian
> yet. It's a work in progress still. It works on IBM PowerPC
> machines though.
> 
> > Various reports in the net recommend to purge grub completely and
> > reinstall. Did that supported by a install cd and chroot with no
> > effect. Did't found info's in Debian's BTS, though. Any one here
> > experienced similar effects? I tried 2.02+dfsg1-[1-3].
> 
> Did you also try to reinstall GRUB to the OpenFirmware partition?

Yes.

> I will look into fixing GRUB on PowerPC Macs at some point, but
> I haven't had the time for that yet.

 Maybe I'll try 2.0.2-2 or earlier...

Thanks for your efforts.
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