Re: Booting OS X from grub

2024-10-02 Thread Ed Robbins
Hi Adrian, On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 12:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello Ed, > > On Wed, 2024-10-02 at 12:35 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote: > > Picking up from the other thread... this is about booting OS X on > > apple ppc hardware when grub is being used to boot Linux. > > Ah, that's a comp

Re: Booting OS X from grub

2024-10-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Ed, On Wed, 2024-10-02 at 12:35 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote: > Picking up from the other thread... this is about booting OS X on > apple ppc hardware when grub is being used to boot Linux. Ah, that's a completely different problem then. I don't actually know whether GRUB can load other bootload

Booting OS X from grub

2024-10-02 Thread Ed Robbins
Hi all, Picking up from the other thread... this is about booting OS X on apple ppc hardware when grub is being used to boot Linux. I tried the version of the BootX file Ben Westover shared in this message https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/06/msg8.html I placed the file in /boot/gr

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

2024-10-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Ed, On Wed, 2024-10-02 at 10:59 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote: > > > But I see no difference upon rebooting the machine. Am I missing > > > something? > > > > You actually did not bless the bootloader folder. From the grub-installer > > script [1]: > > > > # hattrib -c UNIX -t tbxi :System:Librar

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

2024-10-02 Thread Ed Robbins
Hi Adrian, On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 09:52, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-10-01 at 23:38 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote: > > I just tried this, and blessed the file with: > > > > hmount /dev/sda2 > > hattrib -c UNIX -t tbxi :System:Library:CoreServices:BootX > > humount > > > > But I see

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

2024-10-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Tue, 2024-10-01 at 23:38 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote: > I just tried this, and blessed the file with: > > hmount /dev/sda2 > hattrib -c UNIX -t tbxi :System:Library:CoreServices:BootX > humount > > But I see no difference upon rebooting the machine. Am I missing something? You actually did not bl

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

2024-10-02 Thread Ed Robbins
On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 at 23:38, Ed Robbins wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 05:26, Ben Westover wrote: > > > > 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