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Add yaboot stubfuncs patch entries.

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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]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
[bd709ec]21 Open Firmware such as NewWorld Macintoshes.</para>
[3f8be484]22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Yaboot</title>
27
[2bdaa81]28 <para os="p3">The following patch adds stub functions for newer e2fsprogs releases.</para>
29
30<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&yaboot-stubfuncs-patch;</userinput></screen>
31
[291bd8b]32 <para os="a">The supplied man pages have <filename
[c06e893]33 class="directory">/usr/local</filename> in the text. This sed will correct
34 that:</para>
[3f8be484]35
[291bd8b]36<screen os="b"><userinput>sed -i 's%/usr/local%/usr%' man/*</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]37
[a5f7c53e]38 <para os="aa"> Prevent the build from failing due to warnings with
39 the following sed:</para>
40
41<screen os="ba"><userinput>sed -i 's%-Werror%%' Makefile</userinput></screen>
42
[291bd8b]43 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
[3f8be484]44
[291bd8b]45<screen os="d"><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr</userinput></screen>
[c06e893]46
[291bd8b]47 <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
[c06e893]48
[291bd8b]49<screen os="f"><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr install</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]50
51 </sect2>
52
53 <sect2 id="contents-yaboot" role="content">
54 <title>Contents of Yaboot</title>
55
56 <segmentedlist>
57 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
58 <segtitle>Installed files</segtitle>
59
60 <seglistitem>
61 <seg>addnote, mkofboot (link to ybin), ofboot, ofpath, yaboot,
62 yabootconfig, ybin</seg>
63 <seg>yaboot.conf</seg>
64 </seglistitem>
65 </segmentedlist>
66
67 <variablelist>
68 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
69 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
70 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
71
72 <varlistentry id="addnote">
73 <term><command>addnote</command></term>
[0babf98]74 <listitem>
75 <para>For IBM CHRP machines, add a PT_NOTE program header
76 entry to an elf file so that it can be booted.</para>
77 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot addnote">
78 <primary sortas="b-addnote">addnote</primary>
79 </indexterm>
80 </listitem>
[3f8be484]81 </varlistentry>
82
83 <varlistentry id="mkofboot">
84 <term><command>mkofboot</command></term>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>Format the bootstrap partition and install the yaboot
87 boot loader.</para>
88 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot mkofboot">
89 <primary sortas="b-mkofboot">mkofboot</primary>
90 </indexterm>
91 </listitem>
92 </varlistentry>
93
94 <varlistentry id="ofboot">
95 <term><command>ofboot</command></term>
96 <listitem>
97 <para>Script to format the boot menu using yaboot.conf and
[bd709ec]98 write the resulting Open Firmware code to the bootstrap.</para>
[3f8be484]99 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot ofboot">
100 <primary sortas="b-ofboot">ofboot</primary>
101 </indexterm>
102 </listitem>
103 </varlistentry>
104
105 <varlistentry id="ofpath">
106 <term><command>ofpath</command></term>
107 <listitem>
[bd709ec]108 <para>Determine Open Firmware path corresponding to a device
[0babf98]109 node.</para>
[3f8be484]110 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot ofpath">
111 <primary sortas="b-ofpath">ofpath</primary>
112 </indexterm>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115
116 <varlistentry id="yaboot">
117 <term><command>yaboot</command></term>
118 <listitem>
[bd709ec]119 <para>Open Firmware boot loader.</para>
[3f8be484]120 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot yaboot">
121 <primary sortas="b-yaboot">yaboot</primary>
122 </indexterm>
123 </listitem>
124 </varlistentry>
125
126 <varlistentry id="yabootconfig">
127 <term><command>yabootconfig</command></term>
128 <listitem>
129 <para>Generate and install a simple yaboot.conf.</para>
130 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot yabootconfig">
131 <primary sortas="b-yabootconfig">yabootconfig</primary>
132 </indexterm>
133 </listitem>
134 </varlistentry>
135
136 <varlistentry id="ybin">
137 <term><command>ybin</command></term>
138 <listitem>
139 <para>Shell script to update or install the boot loader
[0babf98]140 on a bootstrap partition.</para>
[3f8be484]141 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot ybin">
142 <primary sortas="b-ybin">ybin</primary>
143 </indexterm>
144 </listitem>
145 </varlistentry>
146
147 <varlistentry id="yaboot.conf">
148 <term><filename>yaboot.conf</filename></term>
149 <listitem>
150 <para>Configuration file used by <command>ybin</command> to determine
[0babf98]151 how to install <command>yaboot</command> on the bootstrap partition.</para>
[3f8be484]152 <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot yaboot.conf">
153 <primary sortas="e-yaboot.conf">yaboot.conf</primary>
154 </indexterm>
155 </listitem>
156 </varlistentry>
157
158 </variablelist>
159
160 </sect2>
161
162</sect1>
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