[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#559853: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?

[Rick Thomas]

On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:49:44PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> I don't recall an offer from the installer to try installing grub2.
>> Is there an incantation I'm not aware of that makes that possible?
>>
>
> If you boot the debian install cd and choose rescue mode you can
> install grub2 using apt-get or aptitude. You should have a working
> network connection so it can fetch the packages.

On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:02 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 23:49 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>
>> I don't recall an offer from the installer to try installing  
>> grub2.  Is
>> there an incantation I'm not aware of that makes that possible?
>
> Not that I know of, but that's just the beginning of 'still a little
> tricky to set up'.

Thanks for the encouragement, Amit & Michel!

Can you be a bit more specific about the necessary magic to install  
grub2 on a G4 PowerPC Mac?

At first this was just a thing that might be fun to try out.  Now it's  
become a quest!

Thanks again,

Rick