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HOWTO-Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC
Chapter 1 Yaboot's Purpose


Yaboot is a bootloader for PowerPC computers (NewWorld PowerMacs and IBM CHRP). It loads a Linux operating system kernel from an OpenFirmware-accessible filesystem and initiates operation of the kernel. On PowerMacs, an included CHRP script can display a multi-OS boot menu which can launch yaboot or other operating systems. Utilities are included to place yaboot and the associated script on a non-mountable bootstrap partition.


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HOWTO-Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC
Version 1.00, Oct 28 2001
Chris Tillman