On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM Stan Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 9/1/25 6:58 PM, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > > > > ... > > My drive appears to already be essentially formatted the same, except > > you have additional partitions for your various other OS's > > My Wallstreet drive was initialized in Mac OS X (Panther), so it has > additional Apple driver partitions. > > > and I have an additional partition for GRUB (to prevent the Debian > > installer from complaining, but maybe I should try again without this). > > I think you should not have a GRUB partition on a Wallstreet. Not only > does GRUB not work on the Wallstreet, but GRUB doesn't work on any > PowerPC system that also needs to boot Mac OS or Mac OS X. I use yaboot > on any PowerMac system that also boot Mac OS or Mac OS X. I use GRUB for > testing on one Pismo that boots only Debian or Gentoo. > I believe the path forward is GRUB2, not Yaboot. According to Adrian, Yaboot is no longer maintained. See < https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2022/03/msg00039.html>. Jeff
