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Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead
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Lennart Sorensen |
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Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot |
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Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:41:46 -0400 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:49:38AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I was just wondering whether it makes sense for GRUB to use MS-DOS partition
> on a Mac, thinking it may be better than Mac partition tables, I was
> basically just thinking aloud. If it's not necessary for GRUB to work
> properly, then we can stick with the current partition scheme, of course.
Well it doesn't sound better, and would certainly be unfriendly do dual
booting with MacOS.
> FWIW, I made this change [1] to partman-partitioning now which will result
> to debian-installer using the same disk labels on ppc64 for the various
> sub-architectures as on powerpc. There are, of course, no 64-Bit OldWorld
> Macs, Cell CPUs and so on, but I guess my change is more elegant than
> duplicating
> the case statement for ppc64 and removing all the unsupported
> subarchitectures.
I would have thought the firmware on the mac would insist on an apple
partition table to boot.
--
Len Sorensen
Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, Frank Scheiner, 2017/09/21
- Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, Lennart Sorensen, 2017/09/21
- Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, 2017/09/21
- Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, Lennart Sorensen, 2017/09/21
- Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, 2017/09/21
- Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, Lennart Sorensen, 2017/09/21
- Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, 2017/09/22
- Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot,
Lennart Sorensen <=
- Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, 2017/09/23
Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, Frank Scheiner, 2017/09/23
Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, Lennart Sorensen, 2017/09/25
Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, 2017/09/25
Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, Frank Scheiner, 2017/09/25
Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, 2017/09/25
Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, luigi burdo, 2017/09/25
Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, Lennart Sorensen, 2017/09/25
Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot, Mathieu Malaterre, 2017/09/22