Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good
Hello!
On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 11:25 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 10.05.23 10:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > [...]
> > If we could get Apple PowerMac machines to boot from a FAT filesystem, the licensing
> > issue with hfsprogs would no longer be a headache. According to Apple's documentation,
> > booting from a FAT boot partition should work [4] but I have never gotten around to
> > testing that.
> >
> > So, if anyone has the time and enthusiasm to be able to get an Apple PowerMac to boot
> > off a FAT partition, please give it a try and let me know. If it works, we can replace
> > the current bootloader installation in grub-installer [2] and fix the issue for good.
>
> See [5] for an implementation from end of 2018 (worked for me on a 11,2
> Power Mac G5 and a Mac mini G4). The discussion that followed might be
> also of interest.
>
> [5]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2018/12/msg00054.html
Does your approach include a blessing tool? I want to avoid messing around with the NVRAM
as this approach is very fragile. A blessed bootloader, on the other hand, is automatically
displayed in the boot menu and booted unless any alternatives are present. It's therefore
much more robust.
Adrian
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