Hello! On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 11:25 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: > On 10.05.23 10:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > [...] > > If we could get Apple PowerMac machines to boot from a FAT filesystem, the > > licensing > > issue with hfsprogs would no longer be a headache. According to Apple's > > documentation, > > booting from a FAT boot partition should work [4] but I have never gotten > > around to > > testing that. > > > > So, if anyone has the time and enthusiasm to be able to get an Apple > > PowerMac to boot > > off a FAT partition, please give it a try and let me know. If it works, we > > can replace > > the current bootloader installation in grub-installer [2] and fix the issue > > for good. > > See [5] for an implementation from end of 2018 (worked for me on a 11,2 > Power Mac G5 and a Mac mini G4). The discussion that followed might be > also of interest. > > [5]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2018/12/msg00054.html
Does your approach include a blessing tool? I want to avoid messing around with the NVRAM as this approach is very fragile. A blessed bootloader, on the other hand, is automatically displayed in the boot menu and booted unless any alternatives are present. It's therefore much more robust. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
