Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

> On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:25 PM, userm57@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>> 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 your particular G3 Lombard is one of the OldWorld ROM machines, Yaboot won’t work on these either as these don’t use OpenFirmware.

For old Macs, you have to use BootX anyway.

Adrian