Making booting only disks for a mac linux box (was RE: [wplug] grub-install)

Eric Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Fri Jul 14 23:41:44 EDT 2006


On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 08:12:48PM -0400, Chris Thomas wrote:
> Boot from any of the live cds (Gentoo, Ubuntu, etc...) and use yaboot
> to configure your bootloader. The command ybin -v should do it.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> On 7/14/06, O'Connor, Michael P. <mpoconnor at switch.com> wrote:
> >I am wondering with this talk about a grub boot disk and fixing a grub
> >boot sector, how would one do this in the "new world" boot loader for
> >Linux on a Mac G3 (or higher) box.

Grub version 2 (grub2 in Debian) is supposed to handle PowerPC
machines.  Here's some more info:
    http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


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