Adrian, On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:53 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > On 2/17/19 10:45 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > However having said that I have had great results from installing Debian > > testing/buster into a PowerMac G5 with no major issues. Sure the boot > > loader is a tad crusty but the machine works well enough. > > Frank Scheiner has already written patches to add GRUB support for Macs, > those just need to be cleaned up, tested and merged. > > First, the issue with ofpath inside powerpc-utils needs to be fixed [1] > which might just be a matter of updating the powerpc-utils package > in Debian. The version currently in Debian is a tad old. > > Adrian > > > [1] https://github.com/ibm-power-utilities/powerpc-utils/issues/30
IMHO a much simpler solution is at: * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916864 The attached patch wont change a bit on sparc* system. Fixing the shell script in powerpc-utils wont happen in the near future (again IMHO). I was hoping even to get my patch upstream in GRUB. Technically I still fail to understand why the implementation on Mac does not cope with both syntax, or else the bug has been present in GRUB upstream since day one. Comments ?
