Yaboot

Yaboot (yet another boot loader^[1]) is a bootloader for PowerPC-based hardware running Linux.^[2]^[3]

History

In 2009, maintenance by Paul Nasrat was handed over to Tony Breeds.^[4]

Support includes the New World ROM Macintosh and IBM RS/6000 systems. It does not support the "OldWorld" PowerMacs.^[2]

It is built to run within the Open Firmware layer common to most such systems instead of working as a Mac OS 9 program like its predecessor BootX.

Yaboot is similar to LILO and GNU GRUB.^[5] Yaboot uses the following steps to boot:^[3]

^ "First Look at an Apple G4 with the Altivec Processor". Linux Journal. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
^ ^a ^b "penguinppc.org - The New Home of PowerPC Linux". penguinppc.org. 2004-06-16. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
^ ^a ^b Rodriguez, Claudia Salzberg (2005). "8.2.3. PowerPC and Yaboot". The Linux Kernel primer : a top-down approach for X86 and PowerPC architectures. Gordon Fischer, Steven Smolski. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference. ISBN 0-13-118163-7. OCLC 79872126.
^ Nasrat, Paul (24 May 2009). "Introducing new maintainer". Retrieved 2021-03-26.
^ "Encrypt Your Root Filesystem". Linux Journal. Retrieved 2021-03-26.