On 1/28/19 14:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/28/19 2:18 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:Theoretically something similar could be created - at a different place though, i.e. before the partitioning step - to support both HFS and FAT16 bootstrap methods in the installer for NewWorld Power Macs. I.e. a user decision expands the "powermac_newworld" subarch to "powermac_newworld_hfs" or "powermac_newworld_fat" and this information is (1) then used by the partitioning step to choose the required partitioning scheme and (2) by the bootloader installation step to choose the required installation method. So for sure no small development effort would be required.What would be the gain of implementing this? Sure, it would be possible to implement it. But for what particular reasons and why would it be required for Yaboot?
I believe the current d-i/yaboot-installer expects to install on a HFS bootstrap (though I assume yaboot can also boot from FAT). If the default bootstrap method is changed this would require changes to keep it working.
But as said, as long as nobody maintains the software (i.e. yaboot and HFS related stuff for the yaboot case or just the HFS related stuff for the GRUB case) a development effort for that isn't justified IMHO.I didn't say anything about HFS utilities. Those certainly need to be kept and fixed. I was merely talking about Yaboot which some people seem to prefer over GRUB for reasons which I am yet failing to understand.
Why is the situation different for the HFS utilities? They're not maintained either and have problems on G5s (hfsprogs). Why fix them, they're not needed for GRUB either?