[UFO Chicago] debian woody on an imac rev. b -- success! (fwd)

[Peter A. Peterson II]

Quoting Peter A. Peterson II:
> It appears to work differently (or reside in different locations)
> depending on the system architecture. On Old World macs, yaboot will
> sit in PrEP boot partitions (the old way) and on IBM hardware it's
> apparently read directly from the root filesystem. A program called
> ybin takes care of getting yaboot into the bootstrap partition.

Whoops, my bad. It's on the IBM machines that it sits in a PrEP boot
partition without any filesystem, and the config is read from the root
partition.

I'm not sure how it was done with Old World macs, but it seems, from
the documentation I read, to be considerably more elaborate.

pedro

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