I am preparing to install Debian on my dual-G4 system. I even have a spare partition I can put it on (I don't have any desire to get rid of MacOS or the various partitions I have made to deal with it). I was hoping to follow the instructions in http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html but it seems that the partition must be the first on the drive. It also seems that only yaboot can be used as a boot loader. My spare partition is the third one on an external FireWire drive, and I really like Apple's own boot loader (i.e. the thing that comes up when one holds down option when booting).
Is there any hope for me? Can linux be booted from the Apple boot loader (which really just changes OF settings and allows OF to do the booting) from a non-first partition on a FireWire drive? On another (vaguely related?) note, how good is the SMP support in the 2.4 kernel on PPC? And does Mac-on-Linux see both processors? --Greg
