On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:49:38AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I was just wondering whether it makes sense for GRUB to use MS-DOS partition > on a Mac, thinking it may be better than Mac partition tables, I was > basically just thinking aloud. If it's not necessary for GRUB to work > properly, then we can stick with the current partition scheme, of course.
Well it doesn't sound better, and would certainly be unfriendly do dual booting with MacOS. > FWIW, I made this change [1] to partman-partitioning now which will result > to debian-installer using the same disk labels on ppc64 for the various > sub-architectures as on powerpc. There are, of course, no 64-Bit OldWorld > Macs, Cell CPUs and so on, but I guess my change is more elegant than > duplicating > the case statement for ppc64 and removing all the unsupported > subarchitectures. I would have thought the firmware on the mac would insist on an apple partition table to boot. -- Len Sorensen
