Re: PB G4 Installation
On 5/20/20 5:59 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 5/20/20 10:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix the GRUB configuration to
>>> allow booting of Mac OS X partitions? I'll study the man pages, but if
>>> I can't get it to work, I'll need to install yaboot instead.
>>
>> Someone on this mailing list explained how to fix that. I think that was
>> last month or so. Or maybe the mailing list member in question will read
>> your mail.
>
> Btw, contributors to fix this issue are welcome.
Thanks. Google found some articles related to this; I will take a look
at those and see if there is anything helpful. Meanwhile, yaboot works
on the PB G4 in Debian SID to boot Mac OS Tiger, Mac OS Leopard, Debian
7.8, Debian SID and Gentoo. The Debian 7.8 version did not work, likely
because that version's ofpath was somewhat buggy.
>
>>> And I have these additional comments and suggestions (some of these may
>>> be out of scope of the Debian PPC unsupported port):
>>>
>>> 1) I know Debian has opted to use systemd instead of sysvinit; however,
>>> there are valid reasons (mostly resource related) to opt for sysvinit on
>>> some systems. For example, on a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet, 266 MHz, 384
>>> MB memory, sysvinit runs better than systemd. This is not an invitation
>>> to re-open (or start a new) systemd discussion, it is a request to allow
>>> installation of packages that shouldn't require systemd, such as
>>> synaptic, to be installed without also installing systemd. Fortunately,
>>> Xfce can still be installed without systemd.
>>
>> This isn't really something I can change, sorry. You can just install sysvinit
>> and it will work. Whether certain desktops work without systemd is basically
>> a decision that has been made upstream.
> And I would like to add here: Not a single Debian Developer is opposed to
> such changes, it's just that the majority doesn't care which is why the
> people who want such flexibility will have to help with that work.
>
> I think there is still the debian-init-diversity team [1] which certainly
> is always looking for new contributors.
>
> Adrian
>
>> [1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/debian-init-diversity
>
ok, thanks. I'll see whether I'm able to contribute anything to that
team. Strictly speaking, though, I'm just asking for non-systemd
versions of packages when possible, such as synaptic. I think there's
also a non-systemd version of Gnome. I can always download these myself
from their respective authors and compile without systemd options, or
use versions from Gentoo.
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