Re: A short tutorial on running GRUB2 on a PPC

2011-04-02 Thread Brian Morris
I have had libfreevec (clibrary replacement) installed on my g4 powerbook for several years with no problems, upgrading in place from etch to lenny to squeeze. but I have not tried to build apps against it. gcc has very good auto-vectoring since 4.3 or 4.4 so you don't need to hand code. Some limi

Re: A short tutorial on running GRUB2 on a PPC

2011-04-02 Thread Super Bisquit
it won't work for all operating systems. NetBSD must be located as the first booting system. OpenBSD has to be specially modified to boot and may require the same area as NetBSD. FreeBSD can have more than one installation but the root directory must be set from the bootloader. Now, why are you hav

A short tutorial on running GRUB2 on a PPC

2011-04-02 Thread Rogério Brito
(Please, keep me CC'ed, as I am not currently subscribed to -powerpc) Hi there. As some people may not consider yaboot to be a bootloader for the long term (well, depending on your views, not even for the short term), I took some time to distill, experiment, pull my hair, become frustrated, and w