This document contains installation and usage instructions for
yaboot, the GNU/Linux PowerPC bootloader.
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ tree: rsync://penguinppc.org/yaboot.
The master location of this
document is .
+id="http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml"
+name="http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml">.
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
@@ -109,7 +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/bootloaders/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.
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ following commands (substitute the actual revision numbers for X and Y):
Be sure you have reviewed the mac-fdisk Basics page at . If
+id="http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml">. If
you are creating a new Linux installation, the first partition you create
with mac-fdisk should be the bootstrap partition. Just use the
mac-fdisk b command to automatically create a
@@ -680,6 +680,14 @@ If you create yaboot.conf in the MacOS, you must convert
it to use Unix newlines (linefeeds only). If you use MacOS newlines
(just carriage returns), yaboot will be unable to read the file.
+
+You must pick a partition that is formatted with either HFS or HFS+. If
+you have Mac OS X installed on a UFS partition (You can use the OS X "Disk
+Utility" app to check this), you will have to find another partition to use.
+If Mac OS X is installed on UFS, you probably have one or two partitions
+of the "Apple_Boot" type. They have HFS filesystems on them. Pick one,
+mount it under MacOS X, and store the files there.
+
Boot into OpenFirmware, and type at the prompt:
@@ -696,16 +704,15 @@ boot: prompt, type install followed by a return.
Where's home?
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