source: BOOK/final-system/ppc/yaboot.xml@ 3114d90

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Last change on this file since 3114d90 was 2d94b6c, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r3150@server (orig r1476): ken | 2006-04-27 06:29:18 -0700
Remove reference to /usr/local from yaboot manpages, fixes ticket #25.

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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-yaboot" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="yaboot.html"?>
10
11 <title>Yaboot-&yaboot-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot">
14 <primary sortas="a-Yaboot">Yaboot</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Yaboot package contains a PowerPC Boot Loader for machines using
21 OpenFirmware such as NewWorld Macintoshes.</para>
22
23 <segmentedlist>
24 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25
26 <seglistitem>
27 <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep,
28 Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg>
29 </seglistitem>
30 </segmentedlist>
31
32 </sect2>
33
34 <sect2 role="installation">
35 <title>Installation of Yaboot</title>
36
37 <para>Yaboot has a compilation error. The following patch properly fixes
[6c4e93e]38 the issue:</para>
[3f8be484]39
40<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../yaboot-&yaboot-version;-fix-1.patch</userinput></screen>
41
[2d94b6c]42 <para>The supplied man pages have <filename class="directory">/usr/local
43 </filename> in the text. This sed will correct that:</para>
44
45<screen><userinput>sed -i 's%/usr/local%/usr%' man/*</userinput></screen>
46
[3f8be484]47 <para>Compile the Yaboot package:</para>
48
49<screen><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr</userinput></screen>
50
51 <para>Install the package:</para>
52
53<screen><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr install</userinput></screen>
54
55 </sect2>
56
57 <sect2 id="contents-yaboot" role="content">
58 <title>Contents of Yaboot</title>
59
60 <segmentedlist>
61 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
62 <segtitle>Installed files</segtitle>
63
64 <seglistitem>
65 <seg>addnote, mkofboot (link to ybin), ofboot, ofpath, yaboot,
66 yabootconfig, ybin</seg>
67 <seg>yaboot.conf</seg>
68 </seglistitem>
69 </segmentedlist>
70
71 <variablelist>
72 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
73 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
74 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
75
76 <varlistentry id="addnote">
77 <term><command>addnote</command></term>
[0babf98]78 <listitem>
79 <para>For IBM CHRP machines, add a PT_NOTE program header
80 entry to an elf file so that it can be booted.</para>
81 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot addnote">
82 <primary sortas="b-addnote">addnote</primary>
83 </indexterm>
84 </listitem>
[3f8be484]85 </varlistentry>
86
87 <varlistentry id="mkofboot">
88 <term><command>mkofboot</command></term>
89 <listitem>
90 <para>Format the bootstrap partition and install the yaboot
91 boot loader.</para>
92 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot mkofboot">
93 <primary sortas="b-mkofboot">mkofboot</primary>
94 </indexterm>
95 </listitem>
96 </varlistentry>
97
98 <varlistentry id="ofboot">
99 <term><command>ofboot</command></term>
100 <listitem>
101 <para>Script to format the boot menu using yaboot.conf and
[0babf98]102 write the resulting OpenFirmware code to the bootstrap.</para>
[3f8be484]103 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot ofboot">
104 <primary sortas="b-ofboot">ofboot</primary>
105 </indexterm>
106 </listitem>
107 </varlistentry>
108
109 <varlistentry id="ofpath">
110 <term><command>ofpath</command></term>
111 <listitem>
112 <para>Determine OpenFirmware path corresponding to a device
[0babf98]113 node.</para>
[3f8be484]114 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot ofpath">
115 <primary sortas="b-ofpath">ofpath</primary>
116 </indexterm>
117 </listitem>
118 </varlistentry>
119
120 <varlistentry id="yaboot">
121 <term><command>yaboot</command></term>
122 <listitem>
123 <para>OpenFirmware boot loader.</para>
124 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot yaboot">
125 <primary sortas="b-yaboot">yaboot</primary>
126 </indexterm>
127 </listitem>
128 </varlistentry>
129
130 <varlistentry id="yabootconfig">
131 <term><command>yabootconfig</command></term>
132 <listitem>
133 <para>Generate and install a simple yaboot.conf.</para>
134 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot yabootconfig">
135 <primary sortas="b-yabootconfig">yabootconfig</primary>
136 </indexterm>
137 </listitem>
138 </varlistentry>
139
140 <varlistentry id="ybin">
141 <term><command>ybin</command></term>
142 <listitem>
143 <para>Shell script to update or install the boot loader
[0babf98]144 on a bootstrap partition.</para>
[3f8be484]145 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot ybin">
146 <primary sortas="b-ybin">ybin</primary>
147 </indexterm>
148 </listitem>
149 </varlistentry>
150
151 <varlistentry id="yaboot.conf">
152 <term><filename>yaboot.conf</filename></term>
153 <listitem>
154 <para>Configuration file used by <command>ybin</command> to determine
[0babf98]155 how to install <command>yaboot</command> on the bootstrap partition.</para>
[3f8be484]156 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot yaboot.conf">
157 <primary sortas="e-yaboot.conf">yaboot.conf</primary>
158 </indexterm>
159 </listitem>
160 </varlistentry>
161
162 </variablelist>
163
164 </sect2>
165
166</sect1>
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