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Re: OldWorld ROM Macintoshes





On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com> wrote:

On 9/1/25 6:58 PM, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
>
> ...
> My drive appears to already be essentially formatted the same, except
> you have additional partitions for your various other OS's

My Wallstreet drive was initialized in Mac OS X (Panther), so it has
additional Apple driver partitions.

> and I have an additional partition for GRUB (to prevent the Debian
> installer from complaining, but maybe I should try again without this).

I think you should not have a GRUB partition on a Wallstreet. Not only
does GRUB not work on the Wallstreet, but GRUB doesn't work on any
PowerPC system that also needs to boot Mac OS or Mac OS X. I use yaboot
on any PowerMac system that also boot Mac OS or Mac OS X. I use GRUB for
testing on one Pismo that boots only Debian or Gentoo.

I believe the path forward is GRUB2, not Yaboot. According to Adrian, Yaboot is no longer maintained. See <https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2022/03/msg00039.html>.

Jeff

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