<author>
<name>Chris Tillman</name>
</author>
- <version>Version 1.00, Oct 28 2001</version>
+ <version>Version 1.01, Feb 24 2002</version>
<abstract>
This document contains installation and usage instructions for
<prgn>yaboot</prgn>, the GNU/Linux PowerPC bootloader.
<copyrightsummary>
This document may be distributed and modified under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.
-© 1998–2001 Chris Tillman
+© 1998–2002 Chris Tillman
</copyrightsummary>
<p>
+This document is maintained in the upstream yaboot source. Patches
+and translations should be sent to erbenson (at) alaska.net. The most
+recent version of this document is available via the yaboot rsync
+tree: rsync://penguinppc.org/yaboot, and <url
+id="http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml"
+name="http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml">.
+ <p>
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
You can also download <prgn>yaboot</prgn> directly from the
<prgn>yaboot</prgn> home page at <url
-id="http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot">. If you download it using MacOS,
+id="http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/">. If you download it using MacOS,
be sure to download using <em>binary</em> (not text) format, and don't let
Stuffit Expander or another utility expand the archive in MacOS.
(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 <url
-id="http://penguinppc.org/projects/eb/">. To install this, use
+id="http://penguinppc.org/~eb/files/">. To install this, use
<example>
su -
is quite often true. You should always supply the kernel partition number,
for example <tt>partition=3</tt>, and of course the image path (for example
<tt>image=/boot/vmlinux</tt> ). 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 (<tt>image=vmlinux</tt> will probably fail).
<p>