Re: Booting OS X from grub

[Manuel Molina Cuberos <mmc@pocosmhz.org>]

Hi Stan!

El 21/10/24 a las 19:18, Stan Johnson escribió:

> 3) From Mac OS 9, run NetBSD's pdisk. I had to use the mac68k version so
> it would see internal ATA disks (the ppc version only sees SCSI disks);
> pdisk is available here:
>
> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0/mac68k/installation/misc/pdisk.sea.hqx
>
> In Mac OS 9, pdisk (somewhat unsafely) lets you change (or rename)
> partitions even if they're active. That can come in handy if you can't
> boot from a different disk.
>
>

After managing to get that utility from the compressed archive, I ran it under Mac OS 9 and changed the partition type back to Apple Bootstrap.

Then I installed Debian from the recommended ISO image for this purpose to the iMac G3 and ... It worked like a charm! Not a single error!

I don't know what kind of black magic you have here, but thank you very much!

Regards,

    Manuel Molina