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

2023-05-31 Thread Linux User #330250
On 06/01 2023 06:55 Ben Westover wrote: On 5/31/23 10:20 AM, Ben Westover wrote: AFAIR yaboot does its magic within the CHRP boot script. It would be relatively easy to add an option to load GRUB, I guess. The "chain" would then start by choosing Mac OS (Classic), Mac OS X, or GRUB, via the yabo

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

2023-05-31 Thread Ben Westover
On 5/31/23 10:20 AM, Ben Westover wrote: AFAIR yaboot does its magic within the CHRP boot script. It would be relatively easy to add an option to load GRUB, I guess. The "chain" would then start by choosing Mac OS (Classic), Mac OS X, or GRUB, via the yaboot CHRP script. But then, GRUB would be o

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

2023-05-31 Thread Ben Westover
Hello, On May 30, 2023 12:42:39 PM EDT, Linux User #330250 wrote: > On 05/30 2023 17:13 Stan Johnson wrote: > > On 5/30/23 7:16 AM, Ben Westover wrote: > >> The GRUB Manual [1] says that the PPC port of GRUB only supports booting > >> Linux at the moment. AFAIK booting macOS with GRUB on x86 ma

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Mark! On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 14:15 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Presumably this still can't be used for the Debian installer because of the > license? > Or has there been an update from Apple on this? I have not heard back from Apple yet, so there is no change in license yet. My idea was

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-31 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 30/05/2023 12:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I have started working on an updated »hfsprogs« packages based on the split-out version of the HFS(+) code in the »hfs« package. For this, I have forked Apple's original »hfs« package on Github [1]. Feel free to start contributing. I