Hi,
On 09/26/2017 03:19 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
On powerpc systems, Debian-Installer contains the following warning
when trying to set up GRUB as the default bootloader [1]:
"grub-installer/grub_not_mature_on_this_platform ARCH $ARCH"
Does anyone know whether GRUB has matured on powerpc or is it still
considered experimental?
Sorry, I'm a little occupied recently, but I was successful in
installing and using Grub to boot my Xserve G4 on Debian Sid this
weekend. Haven't tried on other G3 or G4 Power Macs yet, though.
I'll describe details maybe later this week. In short, it works similar
in general to what I described for the Power Mac G5 (11,2). On the
Xserve G4 I used it without separate partition for `/boot` without an
issue (the partition for `/` was formatted with EXT4 during the original
Wheezy installation on this machine). It cost me some time to find out
what was the correct setting to activate the serial console. By default
Grub uses a glass console, even if there is no graphics card installed.
But this is usually not an issue for the workstations.
Cheers,
Frank
