Re: PB G4 Installation
On 5/21/20 12:50 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 5/21/20 2:49 AM, userm57@yahoo.com wrote:
>> ... 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.
>
> Yaboot is unmaintained and doesn't support modern ext4 filesystems. It isn't
> really an option therefore.
Adrian, thanks for your response. I realize that yaboot isn't maintained
and that it doesn't support ext4 filesystems; however, all of my
filesystems are ext3. If I have a choice between a product that is
unsupported but still works, even if only in a limited way, (such as
yaboot, BootX, Penguin), or a supported product that I can't figure out
how to configure (GRUB), then I'll pick the unsupported product. But
YMMV, as they say.
...
>
> The problem is that it isn't a "just non-systemd versions". What you are
> asking for requires tremendous efforts from a distribution point of view.
>
> It's hard to justify such efforts when in the end there are just three
> users for such a configuration.
>
> Adrian
>
Sorry, I wasn't meaning to minimize the effort of maintaining a parallel
set of non-systemd packages. And if there are only three users who are
requesting such a thing, you are absolutely right, it isn't worth the
effort.
thanks
-Stan Johnson
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