Hi Adrian,
On 10.05.23 10:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
[...]
If we could get Apple PowerMac machines to boot from a FAT filesystem, the
licensing
issue with hfsprogs would no longer be a headache. According to Apple's
documentation,
booting from a FAT boot partition should work [4] but I have never gotten
around to
testing that.
So, if anyone has the time and enthusiasm to be able to get an Apple PowerMac
to boot
off a FAT partition, please give it a try and let me know. If it works, we can
replace
the current bootloader installation in grub-installer [2] and fix the issue for
good.
See [5] for an implementation from end of 2018 (worked for me on a 11,2
Power Mac G5 and a Mac mini G4). The discussion that followed might be
also of interest.
[5]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2018/12/msg00054.html
Cheers,
Frank
