Hi all, Picking up from the other thread... this is about booting OS X on apple ppc hardware when grub is being used to boot Linux.
I tried the version of the BootX file Ben Westover shared in this message https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/06/msg00008.html I placed the file in /boot/grub/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX. I then blessed it: umount /dev/sda2 hmount /dev/sda2 hattrib -c UNIX -t tbxi :System:Library:CoreServices:BootX hattrib -b :System:Library:CoreServices humount What I expected to happen, was that on power on I would get a menu, the same as yaboot used to have, which says something like "press l for linux, x for mac os, c for cdrom". What actually happens is that on power on it goes straight to grub, as it did before. If I hold alt down at power on and select the debian option, then I do get the "press l for linux, x for mac os, c for cdrom" menu. However I am not really sure this is worth pursuing, because holding down alt to select the operating system is already a working solution for booting mac os x when grub is used as the bootloader for Linux. I do wonder though how one would go about changing the default boot OS. Thanks, Ed