Hi Jeff, On 9/2/25 12:04 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM Stan Johnson <[email protected] > <mailto:[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 Yaboot is no longer maintained.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
Is GRUB2 supported on the Wallstreet? Regardless of whether yaboot is still supported, it still works, though I think it requires ext3 filesystems instead of ext4. And Yaboot is the only option for the PowerBook Lombard, which despite being NewWorld does not support GRUB. There was a disccussion on this mailing list a while ago about how to make GRUB work on PowerMac systems (G3, G4, G5) to boot Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X in addition to Linux, but I don't know whether those changes ever made it up to the GRUB developers (?). Meanwhile, yaboot continues to support booting from Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, CD, and Linux. -Stan Johnson
