Am 15.09.2015 um 17:12 schrieb Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>:> On 2015-09-15, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote: >> >> Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I >> need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux MintPPC 11 >> (http://www.mintppc.org/content/list-macs) a try, but the netinstall >> iso simply fails in installing a boot loader that conserves the >> original OS/X partition even after many tries and workarounds. > > You might try Ubuntu or Debian. Keep in mind that Macs present their > own challenge beyond just a different architecture; they had a funky > implementation of Open Firmware that was a major PITA to configure > properly. The Mac OF bootloader, yaboot, is pretty much abandonware at > this point as well.this also helps to boot http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ -- LF
On 2015-09-15, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com> wrote:>> On 2015-09-15, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote: >>> >>> Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I >>> need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux MintPPC 11 >>> (http://www.mintppc.org/content/list-macs) a try, but the netinstall >>> iso simply fails in installing a boot loader that conserves the >>> original OS/X partition even after many tries and workarounds. > > this also helps to boot > > http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/rEFInd will work on EFI-based Macs, but not on old PPC Macs, which are based on OpenFirmware (so grub won't work either). --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
Am 15.09.2015 um 19:09 schrieb Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>:> On 2015-09-15, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com> wrote: >>> On 2015-09-15, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote: >> >> this also helps to boot >> >> http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ > > rEFInd will work on EFI-based Macs, but not on old PPC Macs, which are > based on OpenFirmware (so grub won't work either).you are right - its long time ago that i used a macmini and it was indeed intel based. Before that i used a powerbook and remember that the boot loader was http://mac.linux.be/content/yaboot -- LF