Re: OldWorld ROM Macintoshes

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM Stan Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 9/1/25 6:58 PM, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > My drive appears to already be essentially formatted the same, except
> > you have additional partitions for your various other OS's
>
> My Wallstreet drive was initialized in Mac OS X (Panther), so it has
> additional Apple driver partitions.
>
> > and I have an additional partition for GRUB (to prevent the Debian
> > installer from complaining, but maybe I should try again without this).
>
> I think you should not have a GRUB partition on a Wallstreet. Not only
> does GRUB not work on the Wallstreet, but GRUB doesn't work on any
> PowerPC system that also needs to boot Mac OS or Mac OS X. I use yaboot
> on any PowerMac system that also boot Mac OS or Mac OS X. I use GRUB for
> testing on one Pismo that boots only Debian or Gentoo.
>

I believe the path forward is GRUB2, not Yaboot. According to Adrian,
Yaboot is no longer maintained. See <
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2022/03/msg00039.html>.

Jeff