Hi Frank! On 09/26/2017 08:57 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > 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.
Please try to perform some more testing. I'm especially interested in tests on 32-bit hardware to make sure we don't break anything there. > 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). Ok. This basically needs to be performed by the grub-installer package in debian-installer. > 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. We had a similar discussion regarding this on SPARC as most SPARC machines these days are pure servers without a video display. So, they have to be configured to use a GRUB serial console. But it's not that difficult and something we could add to the default configuration when installing on these targets, possibly controlled by a command line option to debian-installer. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
