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# HOWTO-Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC

## Abstract

This document contains installation and usage instructions for `yaboot`, the GNU/Linux PowerPC bootloader.

## Copyright Notice

This document may be distributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License. © 1998–2002 Chris Tillman

This document is maintained in the upstream yaboot source. Patches and translations should be sent to erbenson (at) alaska.net. The most recent sgml version of this document is available via the yaboot rsync tree: rsync://penguinppc.org/yaboot.

The master location of this document is `http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml`.

This document is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL` in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution or on the World Wide Web at the `GNU website`. You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

## Contents

- 1 Yaboot's Purpose
- 2 System Requirements
- 3 Obtaining Yaboot
- 4 Creating the Bootstrap Partition
- 5 Yabootconfig: Make It Easy
- 6 Customizing Your Boot Configuration

- 6.1 Linux Style Device Paths
- 6.2 OpenFirmware Device Paths
- 6.3 Required Settings
- 6.4 Boot Menu Options
- 6.5 Kernel Image Settings
- 6.6 Optional and Cool Settings

- 7 Saving Boot Configuration Changes
- 8 Common Mistakes
- 9 Recovering From Misconfiguration

- 9.1 Resetting the NVRAM
- 9.2 Loading Yaboot
- 9.3 Manually Loading a Kernel Image

- 10 Yaboot as a Temporary Bootloader
- 11 For More Information

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HOWTO-Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC