Booting headless PowerMac G5

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 11:20 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote: 
> 2010/3/25 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:32 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote:
> >>
> >> By the way, as of writing this, grub2 on PPC from debian gives a "out
> >> of memory" issue. Known bug.
> >
> > That's on the G5? It's working on my PowerBook, but I haven't updated
> > the grub2 binaries on the bootstrap partition in a while...
> 
> Yeah, that's on a PowerMac QuadG5.
> I think that's a known issue :
> http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg04455.html
> However it might be another one since it's working for you. I'm using
> grub2 from Debian stable.

According to http://packages.debian.org/stable/grub2 that's version 1.96
+20080724-16, which is pretty old. Current in sid is 1.98, and it's only
become usable for me in the course of the last year or so.


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