Hello! On 3/26/22 15:57, Stan Johnson wrote: > I used the image from your 18 Mar 2022 message: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/
That image doesn't work. Use the latest one: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-24/ > AFAIK, GRUB needs to use Apple_Bootstrap (how else will Open Firmware > know how to boot?). And the Apple_Bootstrap partition is formatted as > HFS (but "Apple_Bootstrap" instead of "Apple_HFS" so Mac OS won't access > it). No, that's not how it works. OpenFirmware looks for a partition that contains a bless bootloader. It's got nothing to do with the Apple_Bootstrap partition. See the explanation here: > https://opensource.apple.com/source/bless/bless-37/README.BOOTING >> And if you used the correct image, what steps did you perform? > > I booted the installation image and chose a default installation. Well, you didn't choose the correct image so this question is moot. >> Did you run in expert mode? I could imagine that expert mode turns off all >> warnings and therefore it didn't tell you when your manual partitioning >> resulted in an unusable partition layout. > > In my second test (step 3 from my earlier message) I chose a default > installation and told the partitioner to use the entire disk. The > installer repartitioned the disk to contain the following partitions: > > 1: /dev/sda1 - partition map > 2: /dev/sda2 - Apple_Bootstrap (hfs, 256 MB) > 3) /dev/sda3 - Debian rootfs (ext4, ~110 GB) > 4) /dev/sda4 - Linux swap (swap, ~768 MB) Yeah, that doesn't work. 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
