source: final-system/ppc/yaboot.xml @ eea58e3

Last change on this file since eea58e3 was 9f5bc2cc, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r2399@server (orig r1197): chris | 2006-02-22 23:25:17 -0800
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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
38    the issue:</para>
39
40<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../yaboot-&yaboot-version;-fix-1.patch</userinput></screen>
41
42    <para>Compile the Yaboot package:</para>
43
44<screen><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr</userinput></screen>
45
46    <para>Install the package:</para>
47
48<screen><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr install</userinput></screen>
49
50  </sect2>
51
52  <sect2 id="contents-yaboot" role="content">
53    <title>Contents of Yaboot</title>
54
55    <segmentedlist>
56      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
57      <segtitle>Installed files</segtitle>
58
59      <seglistitem>
60        <seg>addnote, mkofboot (link to ybin), ofboot, ofpath, yaboot,
61        yabootconfig, ybin</seg>
62        <seg>yaboot.conf</seg>
63      </seglistitem>
64    </segmentedlist>
65
66    <variablelist>
67      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
68      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
69      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
70
71      <varlistentry id="addnote">
72        <term><command>addnote</command></term>
73  <listitem>
74    <para>For IBM CHRP machines, add a PT_NOTE program header
75    entry to an elf file so that it can be booted.</para>
76    <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot addnote">
77      <primary sortas="b-addnote">addnote</primary>
78    </indexterm>
79  </listitem>
80      </varlistentry>
81
82      <varlistentry id="mkofboot">
83        <term><command>mkofboot</command></term>
84        <listitem>
85          <para>Format the bootstrap partition and install the yaboot
86          boot loader.</para>
87          <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot mkofboot">
88            <primary sortas="b-mkofboot">mkofboot</primary>
89          </indexterm>
90        </listitem>
91      </varlistentry>
92
93      <varlistentry id="ofboot">
94        <term><command>ofboot</command></term>
95        <listitem>
96          <para>Script to format the boot menu using yaboot.conf and
97    write the resulting OpenFirmware code to the bootstrap.</para>
98          <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot ofboot">
99            <primary sortas="b-ofboot">ofboot</primary>
100          </indexterm>
101        </listitem>
102      </varlistentry>
103
104      <varlistentry id="ofpath">
105        <term><command>ofpath</command></term>
106        <listitem>
107          <para>Determine OpenFirmware path corresponding to a device
108    node.</para>
109          <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot ofpath">
110            <primary sortas="b-ofpath">ofpath</primary>
111          </indexterm>
112        </listitem>
113      </varlistentry>
114
115      <varlistentry id="yaboot">
116        <term><command>yaboot</command></term>
117        <listitem>
118          <para>OpenFirmware boot loader.</para>
119          <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot yaboot">
120            <primary sortas="b-yaboot">yaboot</primary>
121          </indexterm>
122        </listitem>
123      </varlistentry>
124
125      <varlistentry id="yabootconfig">
126        <term><command>yabootconfig</command></term>
127        <listitem>
128          <para>Generate and install a simple yaboot.conf.</para>
129          <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot yabootconfig">
130            <primary sortas="b-yabootconfig">yabootconfig</primary>
131          </indexterm>
132        </listitem>
133      </varlistentry>
134
135      <varlistentry id="ybin">
136        <term><command>ybin</command></term>
137        <listitem>
138          <para>Shell script to update or install the boot loader
139    on a bootstrap partition.</para>
140          <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot ybin">
141            <primary sortas="b-ybin">ybin</primary>
142          </indexterm>
143        </listitem>
144      </varlistentry>
145
146      <varlistentry id="yaboot.conf">
147        <term><filename>yaboot.conf</filename></term>
148        <listitem>
149          <para>Configuration file used by <command>ybin</command> to determine
150    how to install <command>yaboot</command> on the bootstrap partition.</para>
151          <indexterm zone="ch-system-yaboot yaboot.conf">
152            <primary sortas="e-yaboot.conf">yaboot.conf</primary>
153          </indexterm>
154        </listitem>
155      </varlistentry>
156
157    </variablelist>
158
159  </sect2>
160
161</sect1>
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