pdisk, ofctl and yaboot

[Garrett Cooper]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 3. Anyone that knows how to integrate the Open Firmware parameters for
>> FreeBSD with yaboot ?
>
>  At one point the loader's load address conflicted with yaboot. This may not
> be the case anymore - it's been a very long time since I looked at it. But
> in theory the loader could be booted from yaboot.
>
>> If only FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (all macppc) could agree upon how to
>> integrate with yaboot... alternatively find one unified boot-sequence...
>> life would be so much easier ....

IIRC yaboot was being deprecated for Grub 2.x. There are some
outstanding bugs (I found) with how yaboot parses secondary cd drives
and the like that I was going to debug and fix a while back, but I got
caught up with other things...
I'd definitely compile the last stable and work from that though
because there are a few new helpful features for booting from
non-standard locations for yaboot.conf files.
Cheers,
-Garrett