On 3/7/19 16:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/7/19 11:41 PM, aggaz wrote:Given that the first (unsuccessful) install was done by GPT, this time I used MS-DOS.I'm not sure but I don't think OpenFirmware will accept an MS-DOS partition table, so it's most likely pointless to continue without being able to set the partition table type to "Mac".
OpenFirmware - at least on NewWorld Power Macs and also on POWER machines (see e.g. "chrep", "chrp_rs6k", "chrp_ibm" and "prep" cases following [1]) - supports msdos/MBR partitioning. This is also what I used for my patches that would change the bootstrap method for NewWorld Power Macs. Part of these patches was a change to d-i/partman-partitioning that switches from mac to msdos partitioning ([2]). Tested to work on Mac mini G4 and 11,2 type Power Mac G5. [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-partitioning/blob/master/lib/disk-label.sh#L53 [2]: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-partitioning/merge_requests/1/diffs#4024213af38e279cc49152a1df786d0c5c259409_71_70 Cheers, Frank