Hi Adrian, On 5/2/23 7:24 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > ... > > The former issue could be resolved if someone could find out how to boot > a PowerPC Mac from a FAT32 boot partition. It's supposed to work but I never > verified that. > > If someone could test that, I can implement that and we won't have to resort > to HFS which causes some headache since the APSL license of hfsprogs is > considered non-free by Debian. > ...
On a PowerMac G5, I tested vfat, fat, and ext2 for the Apple_Bootstrap partition, but none of those worked (the system would just boot from the first Apple_HFS partition and ignore Apple_Bootstrap altogether). I thought I read once that Apple's Open Firmware understood ext2 volumes, but maybe it was Apple's UFS that it could read, not ext2 (and I didn't test Apple UFS, since I didn't see a "mkfs.ufs" in Debian and it would likely have the same issues as HFS, anyway). -Stan
