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.