Re: GRUB Multiboot

2022-03-29 Thread Ken Cunningham
> On Mar 29, 2022, at 9:54 AM, Stan Johnson wrote: > > Fortunately, for x86_64 there is rEFIt, which like yaboot appears to no > longer be maintained (but it still works). FYI this is the defacto successor to rEFIt, actively maintained, and is what I have been using as the bootmanager on m

Re: NVRAM emulation issues in QEMU

2022-03-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Mark! On 3/29/22 09:37, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > I'd probably lean lightly towards having a separate dialog with an "Ignore" > option for the "nvram" update step if it goes wrong, as I have no idea how > often this can fail on a real Mac given the age of the hardware. Since the firmware on a

Re: GRUB Multiboot

2022-03-29 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 29/03/2022 02:33, Stan Johnson wrote: Hello, I've confirmed that the version of GRUB (2.06-2) from the 24 Mar 2022 powerpc installation CD can be used to boot other GNU/Linux operating systems on a PowerBook Pismo (Gentoo and Void both work). I also tried many different options in the grub.

Re: NVRAM emulation issues in QEMU

2022-03-29 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 25/03/2022 08:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Mark! On 3/25/22 09:51, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: However I suspect the reason the NVRAM is changed is for the case of dual-boot machines where the existing MacOS partition is first shrunk and the Linux partitions added at the end. In thi

About that nvram --update-config boot-device=""

2022-03-29 Thread Dennis Clarke
After a neat install with the latest installer images we need to give this a test. Well here we go : root@enceladus:~# nvram --print-config "common" Partition - little-endian?=false real-mode?=false auto-boot?=true diag-switch?=false fcode-debug?=false oem-banner?=false oem-