Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:49:38AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I was just wondering whether it makes sense for GRUB to use MS-DOS partition
> on a Mac, thinking it may be better than Mac partition tables, I was
> basically just thinking aloud. If it's not necessary for GRUB to work
> properly, then we can stick with the current partition scheme, of course.

Well it doesn't sound better, and would certainly be unfriendly do dual
booting with MacOS.

> FWIW, I made this change [1] to partman-partitioning now which will result
> to debian-installer using the same disk labels on ppc64 for the various
> sub-architectures as on powerpc. There are, of course, no 64-Bit OldWorld
> Macs, Cell CPUs and so on, but I guess my change is more elegant than 
> duplicating
> the case statement for ppc64 and removing all the unsupported 
> subarchitectures.

I would have thought the firmware on the mac would insist on an apple
partition table to boot.

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Len Sorensen