Re: yaboot with updated e2fsprogs
Awesome! Notably grub can't yet boot OS X on PPC AFAIK.
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 09:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard!
>
> On 9/9/20 5:38 AM, Richard Allen wrote:
> > I'm unsure if this is helpful for anyone, but I started hacking
> > on yaboot a few days ago for GCC10 and better ext4 support.
> > This boots my PowerMacG5, but I have yet to try booting a
> > 64-bit ext4 /boot partition - the updated e2fsprogs should
> > support it though. It's still a little kludgy, but it's here:
> >
> > https://github.com/rsaxvc/yaboot4
>
> Thanks, great work. I can upload an updated Debian package into the
> "unreleased" distribution this week for those folks who prefer Yaboot
> over GRUB on their PowerPC machines.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
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