Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4
On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I realize that this may require some programming, but would it be possible
> to have it ask a question early on (maybe at or before the beginning of
> partitioning) requesting the user to choose between yaboot and grub? Then
> the partitioner would automatically create the necessary partition(s) and
> “install boot loader” would automatically install the chosen boot loader
> conditioned on the answer to the question…
Yaboot is unmaintained upstream and does not support modern ext4 features. In
order for Yaboot to work properly, you have to turn certain features in ext4
off, otherwise it won't work and the boot fails.
Unless someone picks up maintenance work on Yaboot and makes it work with
modern ext4 versions, I don't see any particular reason to keep Yaboot.
> Are there other architectures where something like this might be useful?
Why do you think should the installer support a boot loader that is known
to be buggy and unmaintained? If users insist on using Yaboot, they can
still install it manually. I do not see a point, however, to keep it in
the archive.
partman-ext3 still contains a work-around on powerpc [1] which I would
like to get rid of. The workaround turns off 64-bit support in ext4
and checksumming of metadata, both features are desirable to have
these days.
Adrian
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-ext3/commit/f87dc92157262de1ad8dd3f2343436f08271b4dc
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