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Yaboot: Boot Loader, Linux, BootX
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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Yaboot is a boot
loader for PowerPC-based hardware running Linux, particularly New World
ROM Macintosh systems. It is built to run within the Open Firmware layer
common to most such systems instead of working as a Mac OS 9 program
like its predecessor BootX. The name is believed to be an acronym for
"yet another boot loader". A computer's central processor can only
execute program code found in Read-Only Memory (ROM) and Random Access
Memory (RAM). Modern operating systems and application program code and
data are stored on nonvolatile data storage devices, such as hard disk
drives, CD, DVD, flash memory cards (like an SD card), USB flash drive,
and floppy disk. When a computer is first powered on, it does not have
an operating system in ROM or RAM. The computer must initially execute a
small program stored in ROM along with the bare minimum of data needed
to access the nonvolatile devices from which the operating system
programs and data are loaded into RAM. |
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