## Example yaboot.conf for ybin and yaboot >= 0.6 ## see man yaboot.conf for more details. ## Change `unconfigured' to your bootstrap partition eg: /dev/hda2 boot=unconfigured ## device is the OpenFirmware device path to the disk containing ## kernel images. if your disk is /dev/hda you can find the ## OpenFirmware path by running the command: ofpath /dev/hda DO NOT ## specify a partition number for this! On IBM hardware you can ## generally comment this out. device=hd: ## partition is the partition number where the kernel images are ## located. The kernel images should be on your root filesystem, so ## this is usually the same partition number as your root filesystem. ## so if root = /dev/hda3 (the 3rd partition) then you should have ## partition=3 This *MUST* be set correct or yaboot won't boot! This ## option can be either set globally as shown here, or per image in ## the image= sections partition=3 ## delay is the amount of time in seconds the dual boot menu (if one ## is configured, by the presense of macos, macosx, etc options here) ## will wait before choosing the default OS (GNU/Linux or the value of ## defaultos=). If you omit this then the value of timeout= ## (converted to seconds) will be used. delay=10 ## timeout is the amount of time in tenths of a second that yaboot ## will wait before booting the default kernel image (the first image= ## section in this config file or the value of default=). timeout=40 install=/usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofboot ## Change the default colors, fgcolor is the text color, bgcolor is ## the screen background color. (default: fgcolor=white, bgcolor=black) #fgcolor=black #bgcolor=green ## Password supplied in plaintext, required for yaboot to boot, unless ## restricted is also present (see below). Be sure to ## chmod 600 /etc/yaboot.conf if you set this! #password=secret ## Password supplied as an md5 hash, see above #password=$1$saltstrg$HnJ/gcM3oKhNbnzUPgXTD/ ## A password is only required to boot an image specified here if ## parameters are specified on the command line or if the user enters ## an image is not specified in the configuration file at all (ie. ## arbitrary file load). restricted can also be placed in an image ## section in that case any image not including the restricted keyword ## will be fully password protected. #restricted ## image is the kernel itself, commonly kept in / but also commonly ## found in /boot. Note that /boot should generally not be its own ## partition on powerpcs, its not necessary and complicates things. ## Make sure /boot is on the partition specified by partition= see ## above. /boot should never be an HFS filesystem. You may point ## image= to a symbolic link so long as the symlink does not cross ## partition boundries. image=/vmlinux label=Linux root=/dev/hda3 read-only image=/vmlinux.old label=Linux.old root=/dev/hda3 read-only