X-Git-Url: http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=yaboot.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fyaboot-howto.sgml;h=2f83f8939738c375729528b82296e366a47272b5;hp=e36b17eeb748e369480e75ae96b600c8621c03c2;hb=53695b2ef3f2fbf757b26c66ad3fa45ccb6b93e6;hpb=b58b7f84f40f96f61a1d5fc1f88a1abd9c1a4193 diff --git a/doc/yaboot-howto.sgml b/doc/yaboot-howto.sgml index e36b17e..2f83f89 100644 --- a/doc/yaboot-howto.sgml +++ b/doc/yaboot-howto.sgml @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Chris Tillman - Version 1.03, Sep 14 2002 + Version 1.04, Feb 22 2004 This document contains installation and usage instructions for yaboot, the GNU/Linux PowerPC bootloader. @@ -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: