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