Re: [PATCH]: Add support for Apple Power Mac
Hi, Adrian,
On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 12:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> I'm confused now as I have not observed the issue in d-i. I have only
> seen it when running the command on an old Debian Jessie system.
>
> On unstable, both in a normal environment and within d-i, the script
> works as expected for me.
I'm glad to know that, maybe the ofpathname problem was caused by some
other issue which got fixed in the meantime…? I really can't pinpoint
when ofpathname started working correctly for me. I've been using GRUB
since early 2016 (when I got my Power Mac G5 and installed Debian
ppc64 unstable), but at that time it wasn't really user-friendly:
every time GRUB was updated, I had to copy grub.elf to the bootstrap
partition, change its type attribute to tbxi and fix the NVRAM
boot-device entry (it was a "fun" procedure, but at least it worked
and allowed me to run xz-compressed kernels). I remember I used the
devalias in the boot-device entry because ofpathname wasn't working
correctly and I didn't feel like traversing the device tree by hand.
:)
Cheers,
Rui
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