On 1/28/19 14:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/28/19 1:52 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
@Rick:
I thought about something like this since Mark reported the bootstrap
limits in OpenBIOS. It could in principle work similar to the switch
between non-GPT and GPT capable SPARC hardware ([1]).
I don't understand this argument. GRUB works on PowerPC Macs and is
fully supported or am I missing something? I also works fine on SPARC
hardware with Sun partition tables.
We implemented a switch in d-i/grub-installer that allows to install
GRUB in the required way for non-GPT and GPT capable SPARC hardware.
Theoretically something similar could be created - at a different place
though, i.e. before the partitioning step - to support both HFS and
FAT16 bootstrap methods in the installer for NewWorld Power Macs. I.e. a
user decision expands the "powermac_newworld" subarch to
"powermac_newworld_hfs" or "powermac_newworld_fat" and this information
is (1) then used by the partitioning step to choose the required
partitioning scheme and (2) by the bootloader installation step to
choose the required installation method. So for sure no small
development effort would be required.
But as said, as long as nobody maintains the software (i.e. yaboot and
HFS related stuff for the yaboot case or just the HFS related stuff for
the GRUB case) a development effort for that isn't justified IMHO.
Cheers,
Frank
