Hello, On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 12:57 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > Is GRUB2 supported on the Wallstreet?
Did someone ever test this? I unfortunately don't own one. > Regardless of whether yaboot is still supported, Last time I checked the upstream project was dead and besides some updates to a few forks, there doesn't seem anyone really working on it: https://github.com/search?q=yaboot&type=repositories&s=updated&o=desc > it still works, though I think it requires ext3 filesystems instead of ext4. The main problem is that Yaboot doesn't support 64-bit block counts and meta-data checksumming: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-ext3/-/commit/f87dc92157262de1ad8dd3f2343436f08271b4dc https://man.archlinux.org/man/ext3.5.en > And Yaboot is the only option for the PowerBook Lombard, which despite > being NewWorld does not support GRUB. Might be an idea to bring this up on grub-devel. As I don't have such hardware, I can't do it myself. > There was a disccussion on this mailing list a while ago about how to > make GRUB work on PowerMac systems (G3, G4, G5) to boot Mac OS 9 and Mac > OS X in addition to Linux, but I don't know whether those changes ever > made it up to the GRUB developers (?). Meanwhile, yaboot continues to > support booting from Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, CD, and Linux. Well, Yaboot continues to remain unchanged (surprisingly). Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
