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bootinfo.txt; it said nothing about other files...

> it allows you to set an icon for a drive and load a secondary
> bootloader. The ofboot.b file is generally given the HFS file
> type of tbxi to fit in with the default settings Apple sets. Here
> are the relevant files on a real install:

> The yaboot bootloader can be set directly in the firmware or it
> can be referenced from the ofboot.b file. My system has the following
> command set as one of the possibilities in ofboot.b:
>
> : bootyaboot " Loading second stage bootstrap..." .printf 100 ms load-bas=
e release-load-area " /ht at 0,f2000000/pci at 7/k2-sata-root at c/k2-sata at 0/disk at 0:=
2,\\yaboot" $boot ;

I see. But in the debian-cd's map, yaboot gets a filetype of boot
(just like in your setup). But you said that the firmware was looking
for tbxi...

> This is telling the firmware to create a command bootyaboot that will
> load and run the file yaboot in the blessed folder on the 2nd partition
> on the SATA disk. The ofboot.b file also has a menu to choose a boot
> method which can run this command based on the user input.

Yes, and it has the same format as bootinfo.txt, it confuses me completely =
:)

> With an Open Firmware that can directly load an ELF file, the yaboot
> file could be specified as the boot-file setting. This would mean
> that the firmware would always load yaboot as the normal boot process.

i see... So, the boot process you described would be:  firmware, if
used with boot "cd:,\\:tbxi", locates a blessed folder with a tbxi
file on it: the ofboot.b, which calls yaboot. Right? Do you know
anything about the remaining bits I've found?

Thanks a lot!


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