This document contains installation and usage instructions for
yaboot, the GNU/Linux PowerPC bootloader.
@@ -29,9 +29,19 @@ This document contains installation and usage instructions for
This document may be distributed and modified under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.
-© 1998–2001 Chris Tillman
+© 1998–2002 Chris Tillman
+This document is maintained in the upstream yaboot source. Patches
+and translations should be sent to erbenson (at) alaska.net. The most
+recent sgml version of this document is available via the yaboot rsync
+tree: rsync://penguinppc.org/yaboot.
+
+The master location of this
+document is .
+
This document is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
@@ -99,7 +109,7 @@ does not change your boot configuration; you must use the included
You can also download yaboot directly from the
yaboot home page at . If you download it using MacOS,
+id="http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/">. If you download it using MacOS,
be sure to download using binary (not text) format, and don't let
Stuffit Expander or another utility expand the archive in MacOS.
@@ -147,7 +157,7 @@ bootstrap partition of the proper size and type. If your version of
(Replace xxxx with the starting block number.) A working tarball of a
bootstrap-capable version of mac-fdisk (Debian users already have this
version) is also distributed at . To install this, use
+id="http://penguinppc.org/~eb/files/">. To install this, use
su -
@@ -365,7 +375,7 @@ assumes it will find the kernel on the same device it was booted from, which
is quite often true. You should always supply the kernel partition number,
for example partition=3, and of course the image path (for example
image=/boot/vmlinux ). If your kernel image is at the root level of
-the parttion, don't forget to include the leading slash when specifying the
+the partition, don't forget to include the leading slash when specifying the
image path (image=vmlinux will probably fail).