On 5/21/20 2:49 AM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > On 5/20/20 5:59 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 5/20/20 10:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>>> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix the GRUB configuration to >>>> allow booting of Mac OS X partitions? I'll study the man pages, but if >>>> I can't get it to work, I'll need to install yaboot instead. >>> >>> Someone on this mailing list explained how to fix that. I think that was >>> last month or so. Or maybe the mailing list member in question will read >>> your mail. >> >> Btw, contributors to fix this issue are welcome. > > Thanks. Google found some articles related to this; I will take a look > at those and see if there is anything helpful. Meanwhile, yaboot works > on the PB G4 in Debian SID to boot Mac OS Tiger, Mac OS Leopard, Debian > 7.8, Debian SID and Gentoo. The Debian 7.8 version did not work, likely > because that version's ofpath was somewhat buggy.
Yaboot is unmaintained and doesn't support modern ext4 filesystems. It isn't really an option therefore. >>>> And I have these additional comments and suggestions (some of these may >>>> be out of scope of the Debian PPC unsupported port): >>>> >>>> 1) I know Debian has opted to use systemd instead of sysvinit; however, >>>> there are valid reasons (mostly resource related) to opt for sysvinit on >>>> some systems. For example, on a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet, 266 MHz, 384 >>>> MB memory, sysvinit runs better than systemd. This is not an invitation >>>> to re-open (or start a new) systemd discussion, it is a request to allow >>>> installation of packages that shouldn't require systemd, such as >>>> synaptic, to be installed without also installing systemd. Fortunately, >>>> Xfce can still be installed without systemd. >>> >>> This isn't really something I can change, sorry. You can just install >>> sysvinit >>> and it will work. Whether certain desktops work without systemd is basically >>> a decision that has been made upstream. >> >> And I would like to add here: Not a single Debian Developer is opposed to >> such changes, it's just that the majority doesn't care which is why the >> people who want such flexibility will have to help with that work. >> >> I think there is still the debian-init-diversity team [1] which certainly >> is always looking for new contributors. >> >> Adrian >> >>> [1] >>> https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/debian-init-diversity >> > > ok, thanks. I'll see whether I'm able to contribute anything to that > team. Strictly speaking, though, I'm just asking for non-systemd > versions of packages when possible, such as synaptic. I think there's > also a non-systemd version of Gnome. I can always download these myself > from their respective authors and compile without systemd options, or > use versions from Gentoo. The problem is that it isn't a "just non-systemd versions". What you are asking for requires tremendous efforts from a distribution point of view. It's hard to justify such efforts when in the end there are just three users for such a configuration. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913