On 05/27 2023 20:05 Stan Johnson wrote:
On 5/27/23 10:34 AM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
Any thoughts?
...
It's not safe for a Linux distribution to mount the Apple_Bootstrap
partition except when it actually needs to write to it. Keeping it
mounted as /boot, or /boot/grub, leaves it vulnerable
Hello!
On Sat, 2023-05-27 at 12:05 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote:
> Perhaps GRUB could use whatever yaboot uses to create the
> Apple_Bootstrap partition and bless it with ybin, or was yaboot
> violating Debian license rules with its ybin and use of HFS? Similarly,
> perhaps GRUB could be enabled to
On 5/27/23 10:34 AM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
> ...
>
> It seems, the only real convenient way to go remains HFS or HFS+. Which
> got me thinking...
The partition should be Apple_Bootstrap, type Apple_Bootstrap. That way
it's HFS but not normally accessed via Mac OS X.
> We could make a
Okay, so this whole issue got me thinking...
I couldn't find a way to boot from FAT because it doesn't support
blessing a file. I also couldn't find a default boot file, e.g. some
bootinfo.txt or similar (boot.b, boot.bootinfo, boot.xcoff, ??) that
Open Firmware would default to and use in case
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