unsubscribe On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 08:40:13PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Ok, so I guess the first step would be to patch partman-auto to increase > > the size of the bootloader partition for all sub-architectures. > > > > Question: Does GRUB work on all the PowerPC variants that Yaboot > supports? > > Well I think it supports only ieee1275 machines, aka those with > openfirmware. > > > According to [1], Yaboot supports: > > > > - Mac Newworld, CHRP, CHRP/RS6000, CHRP_IBM and Cell. > > Well at least my understanding is that the newworld machines, the IBM > cell machines, and the IBM power machines should all be openfirmware, > and hence should work with grub. > > > Are these all supported by GRUB? If yes, the transition won't break > > anything. I don't know what platforms like Oldworld use though. I assume > > they are booted from Penguin from MacOS? > > Do oldworld still use QUIK? > > > So, do we all agree that the first thing is to increase the size of the > > bootloader partitions for the aforementioned systems? > > I saw in centos's documentation that for IBM i and p series they say > the PReP boot partition should be 4 to 8MB and never over 10MB. > > The HFS boot size changes certainly sound sensible. > > -- > Len Sorensen > >
