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

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2017-09-21 12:10:17 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> I should mention: i currently run (and have run in the past) many
> powerpc systems (old Mac hardware, mainly, running an OpenFirmware forth
> shell from the mainboard), all of which i either directly installed with
> grub (via debootstrap from debirf) or converted from yaboot to grub.
> I've yet to find one (even a really old blue clamshell iBook with 64MiB
> of RAM) that grub didn't work for me on in the end.  So for the machines
> i've dealt with, the question is more about d-i integration than about
> whether grub will work or not.

One more note: iirc, all of these systems were using an apple-style
partition table (parted creates this type with "mklabel mac").

          --dkg