Yaboot is a popular boot loader for "new world" Macintosh PowerPCs. ("New-world" refers to coloured PowerPCs manufactured since 1999.)
Yaboot needs its own boot strap partition that must be at least 800k. So, if you are installing GNU/Linux from scratch, you would do something like:
(parted) mklabel mac (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-6149.882 megabytes Disk label type: mac Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags 1 0.000 0.031 Apple (parted) mkpart primary hfs 0.032 1 (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-6149.882 megabytes Disk label type: mac Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags 1 0.000 0.031 Apple 2 0.031 1.000 (parted) set 2 boot on (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-6149.882 megabytes Disk label type: mac Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags 1 0.000 0.031 Apple 2 0.031 1.000 boot
You don't need to reinstall Yaboot after resizing a partition. Yaboot is installed with ybin section 9. Related Software and Info.
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