On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/14/2017 11:05 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> Does anyone know how well supported GRUB on powerpc is? Does it support all >>> PPC Macs or only newer >>> ones, e >> >> OldWorld will not work: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2015-03/msg00072.html > > Yeah, I was actually about to ask whether the criteria would be a NewWorld > machine, but for some reason I didn't finish my sentence :O. > >> NewWorld are supposed to work. So the question is: does anyone still >> has an OldWorld ? > > I tried installing on a PB3400 a while ago - didn't work, there are issues > [1]. > > However, I'm not ruling out that other OldWorld machines work, so we could > just try detecting the machine type in debian-installer and enable GRUB > for the NewWorld machines only.
Leaving it to the user is by far the best option ! I think I am getting confused now, because on one page, we have Performa 4400, 54xx, 5500 listed as powermac-OldWorld https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install while (Performa)54xx,6400 is reported to have OF 2.0: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/models.html So I am not clear exactly if OldWorld really imply no OpenFirmware. I'll pass on to another expert. -M
