[CentOS] [OT] linux on a PPC (mac mini)

Tue Sep 15 19:41:49 UTC 2015
Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>


On 09/15/2015 11:27 AM, Leon Fauster wrote:
> 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
>

Oh Geez I remember MKLinux DR3 on my Beige G3 - BootX I think it was - 
had to have a small HFS partition (couldn't be HFS+) with a blessed 
system folder.

That was my first distro.

I also ran Debian m68k on an SE/30 - that was an experience.

Not knowing who he was, I saw the network driver had been written by a 
college student name Alan Cox and so I sent an e-mail to the listed 
e-mail address to say thank you.