Yaboot
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History
In 2009, maintenance by Paul Nasrat was handed over to Tony Breeds.[4]
Hardware support
Support includes the New World ROM Macintosh and IBM RS/6000 systems. It does not support the "OldWorld" PowerMacs.[2]
Booting procedure
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]
- Yaboot is invoked by Open Firmware
- Finds a boot device, boot path and opens boot partition
- Opens
/etc/yaboot.confor a command shell - Loads image or kernel and initrd
- Executes image
See also
References
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External links
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- Former official website on the Wayback Machine