Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

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On 2/1/19 2:19 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot
>> or SILO except for personal preference, I do absolutely see no reason
>> why I should carry the additional maintenance burden for it.
>
> one reason is perhaps that on Macs GRUB is yet little used or tested?

Well, grub doesn't work at all on some Power Macs (such as the PowerBook
G3 Lombard), at least not the grub that is on the Debian 10/sid CD.  So
that's the biggest reason to use yaboot.  I haven't tested grub on G4 or
G5 systems.

> If it works like on PC, including menus, parameter editing, rescue
> mode, it would be an improvement actually.
> I don't think yaboot, while it served us for many years, has special
> features... at most we must be very sure that all yaboot supported
> computers will be supported by GRUB and that nobody is left behind.
> The same goes perhaps for "old" RS/6000 machines.
>
> For now, my experience was that it was already quite hard to install a
> working yaboot on my iBook to "get it booting" after an install.
>
> Riccardo
>