On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 03:25:20PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/04/2017 03:16 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Hey Adrian, you are really helpful! :-) > > So are all your tests. Your input is really appreciated, thank you! > > > I will check this out for the Power Macs and try to fix any issues on > > the way by directly adapting `/usr/bin/grub-installer`. > > Yep, that's the idea. I assume there are only minor changes necessary > to be made until everything works as intended. > > I still haven't managed to fully fix GRUB on POWER-based systems though > as I cannot get partman to flag the boot partition as PREP. And without > that flag, grub-installer is unable to find the target partition for > installing GRUB.
It is not a flag, it is a partition type. PPC PReP Boot is partition type 0x41. Similar to how Linux is type 0x83 and Linux swap is type 0x82. I don't remember if it wants the boot flag set on it or not. > I have to dig into the partman source code more to be able to find > the problem. > > > But could take until the weekend to find the time. :-/ I'll keep you > > informed. > > No worries, take your time. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
