Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

2023-06-02 Thread Ben Westover
Hello, On 6/2/23 1:56 AM, Linux User #330250 wrote: One thing that concerns me a bit is putting Linux's CHRP boot script into /System/Library/CoreServices/BootX, which is specific to Mac OS X. Why is this necessary? It's not necessary, it's just that the existing script placed by GRUB to load

Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

2023-06-02 Thread Stan Johnson
Hello, On 6/1/23 11:56 PM, Linux User #330250 wrote: > 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 att

Re: How are CHRP bootinfo icons formatted?

2023-06-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Ben! On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 16:18 -0400, Ben Westover wrote: > 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: In case you're coming up with a nice boot logo, feel free to open a pull requ