Hello! On 4/22/20 10:38 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> These images should finally fix the installation process on Apple >> PowerMacs and PowerBooks compatible with GRUB, so basically every >> Macintosh using the New World ROM [2]. >> >> One user already reported a successful installation on his PowerMac >> G5 and I expect installations to work fine on 32-bit machines, i.e. >> G3 and G4 as well. But I'm looking forward to more feedback. > > Good news. > > Does this also mean that the grub packages are fixed in the repositories > and that upgrading them won't break my installed system?
Yes. This was never a bug with GRUB but with ofpathname which is used by GRUB and which I fixed in the archives (by fixing powerpc-utils). > I did one of the first installs with GRUB on my PowerBook by "manually > patching" OF paths with Frank.. and then put the packages on hold not to > break it again - although it proved that GRUB does work with the correct > paths! That shouldn't be necessary anymore. 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
