Re: Installation of Debian on an iMac PowerPC
On 2/17/19 9:11 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 2/17/19 2:46 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Does that mean that yaboot will not be available as a bootloader in
>> some future powerpc Debian? And not being maintained anymore from then
>> on?
>
> Yaboot is already unmaintained, the upstream git repository hasn't seen
> a commit since 2011. There are multiple issue with Yaboot including the
> fact that it needs an ancient version of e2fslibs to build which is no
> longer in Debian. Yaboot also doesn't cope with modern ext4 features.
>
> Thus we're working on switching over to GRUB. I'm continuing this work
> after I have moved apartments.
>
> GRUB already works when you install Debian's powerpc or ppc64 port on
> IBM POWER hardware based on the CHRP platform.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
However having said that I have had great results from installing Debian
testing/buster into a PowerMac G5 with no major issues. Sure the boot
loader is a tad crusty but the machine works well enough.
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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