Re: Power laptop
On 4/13/20 10:01 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> I am going to do a re-install again on an old G5 and see if I can at
> least get the sources and see what the issue is with grub. Seems to be
> just openfirmware pathname issues in that Apple does strange things on
> their firmware. I have no idea of this issue exists on anything else
> but the rumours are that IBM Power equipment "just works".
It's not a rumor, I have installed multiple powerpc and ppc64 instances
on IBM POWER with GRUB just fine. The problem is Mac-specific and it's
just a matter of patching ofpathname in powerpc-utils.
Adrian
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