-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA384 Dear Risto and other people,
On 04/04/11 05:30, Risto Suominen wrote: > 2011/4/3, Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br>: >> http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog/posts/running_grub2_on_powerpc_macs/ Just for the record, I have converted both my iBook G3 600MHz and my iBook G4 1.3GHz to grub2 and both are working very well (well, my iBook G3 seems to be overheating once again, but when it works it is enough to test some programs). I would recommend it for others to try it and go back only if you have annoying problems. You problably won't, but who knows? :-) > My main concern with yaboot has been (until now) its inability to specify > initrd, unless given in cfg file. Typically with external disks, when root > device has changed, and the boot stops. > > Is it possible with grub2 to specify initrd manually? As Michel already told you, this problem doesn't occur with grub2: it detects the kernels that you have already installed (with no need to mess with update yaboot.conf and run ybin), you can use tab-completion (very handy when you are in some difficult situation) and all your filesystems can be ext2/3/4, xfs, btrfs etc. I just converted things here (in both notebooks) to ext4, as I want to take advantage of delayed allocation and extents, so I don't know how it would work with something outside of the ext-family. I highly recommend it for other people. And, of course, once you are satisfied with it, you can simply set it as default in the NVRAM (say, with the boot-device variable of OF). Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. - -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCQAGBQJNs8/MAAoJEAdHvTm8/KqqJ0QQAKkH+I5YCsk6/vXaUCdKe0mj x5oIcu7RQB/pS/S5wqjGB+kC2fCH1UthIGyJxr7SmBowRkitt6bSJd7TRNH0Odac xEK/RnoScceVH4ffbWRBObDxwPooBNTw2r+eN8Kf9KGPuaujQ7HKscQIC0SVBocs eNTUrw0QjsjPFlO7bAjHzy3/fX0rYvhNcXmlYeBTOUXyqEp7N2ziUNy6X13DiiqB +Ku2q9oHU4X4Fmr+IVHt+JA6F8+upmwWueBQye5ytCf7ns4Hwz+qeEr5tWNrLHPM bWXW6rY7ZfeAVBJVftXvnik7gesuVvYuIZrreRHfalt/ezl3w1sKuvrLj1nfvzQs pVMNN9SZcRceClrZef3ojqKmP2OsLGoeelZQ4pVMGA56vwseuZqVxV3mQgcObPlb /e6XccqHMV0CqnzY4uSc/N4AWupdznaAP3NjXbBKF/MHHP8QcaJ1x1PdPg7bnxex nKVFimi0iulUjPe3KPUZjNvmswjHTaSQntDsPSxRf5b4P05Tm4Yx3OsbTblUpe5i fldJT7WI9S+HgDl1taDqxpF+SqwYlknAfDJEcw+vzS56eZ7lzTQ/XHTIL0B2GqJS Vp8ZmoowltD7NyzX37EjxBwr+RDzKPkmKSQdj9qrZ8C5llxu/1z4s3ol1gf+ciJS bZ80npTA3Xzqn2/2vpu4 =waPD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4db3cfd5.4080...@ime.usp.br
