Dual boot OSX - NetBSD on a Powerbook ?

[galgot]

Anyone know if it's possible and or know good tutorials to do this ? I've googled "Dual boot OSX - NetBSD" but didn't come up with something interesting…

So far my experience with Linux is with Debian/Ubuntu/MintPPC, and like it. Started learning that with PPCLuddite tutorial, which is good for noob like me . But now have a couple of AlBooks with empty drives and would like to try something else. Would like to have OSX on a partition though.

 

[register]

As for NetBSD I can not tell, but once I set up a PowerBook G4 to boot alternatively into Mac OS in two different flavours and into Yellow Dog Linux (triple boot). Any of the three installations worked fine and stable. I only ditched the setup because I simply had no use for it after some testing.

 

[johnklos]

If you partition the boot drive for OS X and keep a separate Apple_UNIX partition (or two, counting swap) plus a small HFS (not plus) partition for the bootloader and kernel, then you can go in to Open Firmware and type something like:

boot hd:4,\ofwboot.xcf hd:4,netbsd

This assumes that the HFS partition with the bootloader and kernel is partition 4. Otherwise, you can boot in to OS X just fine.

Are there any modern PowerPC GNU/Linux distributions left? With the move to systemd, I doubt I'll ever run GNU/Linux again, but I'm just curious if any non-mainstream distros are even trying any more.

 

[commodorejohn]

Are there any modern PowerPC GNU/Linux distributions left? With the move to systemd, I doubt I'll ever run GNU/Linux again, but I'm just curious if any non-mainstream distros are even trying any more.

Debian still works fine on PPC, and there's even a fork (MintPPC) specifically geared toward it.

 

[galgot]

If you partition the boot drive for OS X and keep a separate Apple_UNIX partition (or two, counting swap) plus a small HFS (not plus) partition for the bootloader and kernel, then you can go in to Open Firmware and type something like:

boot hd:4,\ofwboot.xcf hd:4,netbsd

This assumes that the HFS partition with the bootloader and kernel is partition 4. Otherwise, you can boot in to OS X just fine.

Are there any modern PowerPC GNU/Linux distributions left? With the move to systemd, I doubt I'll ever run GNU/Linux again, but I'm just curious if any non-mainstream distros are even trying any more.

Thanks !

I'll try that. Does the bootloader and kernel installation on that small partition takes place during NetBSD installation when booting from the CD ?

And yes, Debian Wheezy works beautifully on PPC. I have it running on a PB G4 17", with WindowMaker, it's a pleasure. have it on some Pismos too, runs very well. Ubuntu PPC is still available , up to 14.04 :

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads

But i do prefer Debian.

 

[IPalindromeI]

Are there any modern PowerPC GNU/Linux distributions left? With the move to systemd, I doubt I'll ever run GNU/Linux again, but I'm just curious if any non-mainstream distros are even trying any more.

systemd is portable. (as long as it's Linux) I'd expect Debian to run fine.