RS/6000 yaboot Notes --------------------- A. System Partitioning: 1. Only FDISK partitioning has been tested on the RS/6000. 2. Extended FDISK partitions have not been tested and are not expected to work at this time. 3. yaboot must be installed by itself in a bootable partition of type 0x41. This partition must be less than 10MB. Recommended partition configuration: /dev/sda1 : PREP Boot. Type 0x41. Size = 800K /dev/sda2 : Linux swap. Type 0x82. Size = 128 MB /dev/sda3 : Linux native. Type 0x83. B. Building & Installation: 1. See the partitioning section for notes & examples on how to configure your system partitions when installing Linux. 2. Build yaboot by doing: make clean; make 3. Make a yaboot.conf file in /etc/yaboot.conf 4. Install yaboot by doing (as root): mkofboot C. Configuration File (/etc/yaboot.conf): 1. See the yaboot.conf(5) man page for the full range of options. 2. Options tested on an RS/6000 include: timeout =