Re: Changing bootstrap method for NewWorld Power Macs

2019-01-08 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/7/19 12:15, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 02/01/2019 16:18, Frank Scheiner wrote: I believe that yaboot blesses itself on the HFS "Apple_Bootstrap" partition which allows OpenBIOS to locate and run the bootloader. My understanding is that you would like to change to MBR and FAT16 which

Re: Changing bootstrap method for NewWorld Power Macs

2019-01-07 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 02/01/2019 16:18, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On 1/2/19 16:27, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> On 31/12/2018 13:15, Frank Scheiner wrote: >>> Sorry to hear that, though I think you need to provide additional details >>> at this >>> time: >>> >>> What do you mean with "Debian images"?

Re: Changing bootstrap method for NewWorld Power Macs

2019-01-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Mark, On 1/2/19 16:27, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 31/12/2018 13:15, Frank Scheiner wrote: Sorry to hear that, though I think you need to provide additional details at this time: What do you mean with "Debian images"? Because if you speak of the installer ISOs, my changes won't change

Re: Changing bootstrap method for NewWorld Power Macs

2019-01-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 31/12/2018 13:15, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On 12/31/18 00:49, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> On 30/12/2018 21:01, Frank Scheiner wrote: >>> Open Firmware (IEEE 1275) can actually also boot from FAT file systems and >>> this is >>> also supported on NewWorld Power Macs. >> >>

Re: Changing bootstrap method for NewWorld Power Macs

2018-12-31 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Mark, On 12/31/18 00:49, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 30/12/2018 21:01, Frank Scheiner wrote: Open Firmware (IEEE 1275) can actually also boot from FAT file systems and this is also supported on NewWorld Power Macs. Unfortunately not everyone uses Open Firmware, and in particular OpenBIOS

Re: Changing bootstrap method for NewWorld Power Macs

2018-12-30 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 30/12/2018 21:01, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Dear Adrian, dear Mathieu, > > so actually what I wrote earlier would be a major obstacle for supporting > GRUB on > NewWorld Power Macs... > > I write "would be", because there is another way which lets us safely ignore > any > issues with HFS as

Changing bootstrap method for NewWorld Power Macs

2018-12-30 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear Adrian, dear Mathieu, so actually what I wrote earlier would be a major obstacle for supporting GRUB on NewWorld Power Macs... I write "would be", because there is another way which lets us safely ignore any issues with HFS as bootstrap partition for NewWorld Power Macs: Open Firmware