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

2023-05-27 Thread Linux User #330250
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

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

2023-05-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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

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

2023-05-27 Thread Stan Johnson
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

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

2023-05-27 Thread Linux User #330250
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