Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors
Hi Adrian,
On 5/2/23 7:24 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> ...
>
> The former issue could be resolved if someone could find out how to boot
> a PowerPC Mac from a FAT32 boot partition. It's supposed to work but I never
> verified that.
>
> If someone could test that, I can implement that and we won't have to resort
> to HFS which causes some headache since the APSL license of hfsprogs is
> considered non-free by Debian.
> ...
On a PowerMac G5, I tested vfat, fat, and ext2 for the Apple_Bootstrap
partition, but none of those worked (the system would just boot from the
first Apple_HFS partition and ignore Apple_Bootstrap altogether). I
thought I read once that Apple's Open Firmware understood ext2 volumes,
but maybe it was Apple's UFS that it could read, not ext2 (and I didn't
test Apple UFS, since I didn't see a "mkfs.ufs" in Debian and it would
likely have the same issues as HFS, anyway).
-Stan
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