Re: Why it's so difficult to fix PowerMac booting for good

Hi Adrian,

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 09:52, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2024-10-01 at 23:38 +0100, Ed Robbins wrote:
> > I just tried this, and blessed the file with:
> >
> > hmount /dev/sda2
> > hattrib -c UNIX -t tbxi :System:Library:CoreServices:BootX
> > humount
> >
> > But I see no difference upon rebooting the machine. Am I missing something?
>
> You actually did not bless the bootloader folder. From the grub-installer script [1]:
>
> # hattrib -c UNIX -t tbxi :System:Library:CoreServices:BootX
> # hattrib -b :System:Library:CoreServices
>

Thanks. Just gave this a try (running both those commands) and I'm
afraid the behaviour is still identical to what I described
previously.

I mean, holding down alt is not so bad honestly, and that seems to
"just work" with the standard grub install as far as I am aware.


> Adrian
>
> > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/grub-installer/-/blob/master/grub-installer?ref_type=heads#L1061
>
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