On Thu 2017-09-21 12:10:17 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I should mention: i currently run (and have run in the past) many > powerpc systems (old Mac hardware, mainly, running an OpenFirmware forth > shell from the mainboard), all of which i either directly installed with > grub (via debootstrap from debirf) or converted from yaboot to grub. > I've yet to find one (even a really old blue clamshell iBook with 64MiB > of RAM) that grub didn't work for me on in the end. So for the machines > i've dealt with, the question is more about d-i integration than about > whether grub will work or not.
One more note: iirc, all of these systems were using an apple-style partition table (parted creates this type with "mklabel mac"). --dkg