User:Immolo/NewWorldGRUB

GRUB Installation on NewWorld Macs
On Linux/PPC64 we can use GRUB as a bootloader.

Setup bootstrap partition
First prepare the bootstrap partition created when preparing the disk at the start which should be /dev/sda2, to can confirm this by using parted (if not installed then do this by emerging the sys-block/parted package).

Replace /dev/sda with the correct drive letter if required.From this output partition 2 has the bootstrap information so /dev/sda2 is correct partition to use.

Format this as HFS using the hformat command which is part of the sys-fs/hfsutils package.Create a directory to mount the bootstrap partition and then mount it.

Setup GRUB
If it installs without errors unmount the bootstrap.Now bless the partition so it will boot.Finally build the grub.cfg file: