Bye bye powerpc

2011-04-04 Thread Thomas Constans
Hello list, My ibook g4 suffered its second hard drive failure in 3 month, leading me to suspect a more serious hardware damage. Anyway, after close to five year of running debian on this wonderful machine, i have switch to a smaller, more powerful, more autonomous, much lighter, and way cheaper

Re: A short tutorial on running GRUB2 on a PPC

2011-04-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2011-04-02 at 19:20 -0700, Brian Morris wrote: > 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. Can you share details about

Re: A short tutorial on running GRUB2 on a PPC

2011-04-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 11:30 +0300, Risto Suominen wrote: > > My main concern with yaboot has been (until now) its inability to > specify initrd, unless given in cfg file. Typically with external > disks, when root device has changed, and the boot stops. > > Is it possible with grub2 to specify i

Re: A short tutorial on running GRUB2 on a PPC

2011-04-04 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi, 2011/4/3, 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, experim