On 06/02 2023 06:25 Ben Westover wrote:
It turns out that adding &device; alone is not enough since it refers to
only the drive and not the partition along with it. &device;:&partition;
is what was actually needed. Fixed script is attached.
Wow. Thanks. On my Power Mac G5, &device; alone alway
Hello,
It turns out that adding &device; alone is not enough since it refers to
only the drive and not the partition along with it. &device;:&partition;
is what was actually needed. Fixed script is attached.
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Ben Westover
MacRISC MacRISC3 MacRISC4
PowerPC GNU/Linux First Stage Bootstrap
Hello,
On 6/1/23 1:59 AM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
The only thing that I can think of that might make the script slightly
better was if you used &device; for \grub, because this should default
to the current partition (where stage1 is on), and this is presumably
where GRUB is as well...
I.e.,
Hello,
On 6/1/23 10:34 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
As for how this script could be integrated into Debian, it should
definitely not be put into the GRUB package. As Glaubitz has said,
the goal is for as little PowerPC-specific patches to be put into
these core packages as possible. GRUB's also not real
On 6/1/23 4:18 PM, Ben Westover wrote:
I have no idea what the second one is supposed to be and how I can create it.
One thing I tested was just making the first and second bitmaps the
exact same. When I did this, it produced what looked like a
color-inverted version of the image. So, the nex
On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 13:45 -0400, Ben Westover wrote:
> As for how this script could be integrated into Debian, it should
> definitely not be put into the GRUB package. As Glaubitz has said,
> the goal is for as little PowerPC-specific patches to be put into
> these core packages as possible. GRU
Hello,
Every Linux bootinfo file I've seen for PowerMacs has had either the GNU
logo for GRUB or the Tux for yaboot. Here's an example of the Tux:
1010
F8FEACF6
00F5FEFEF500
002BFAFEFAFCF700
00F65D5857812B00
0
Hello,
On June 1, 2023 1:01:49 PM EDT, Stan Johnson wrote:
> Would this solution allow both PowerPC and Intel Macs to boot Mac OS?
> Whichever solution is used would need to be supported by the GRUB
> developers or Debian (perhaps through a GRUB patch or a separate package?).
This script would n
Hello Ben,
On 5/31/23 10:55 PM, Ben Westover wrote:
> On 5/31/23 10:20 AM, Ben Westover wrote:
>> ... instead of trying to integrate chainloading functionality
>> into GRUB itself, we could just set a similar script to run before GRUB
>> that allows you to make that selection.
>
> I have just tes
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