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HOWTO-Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC
Chapter 2 - System Requirements

Motorola PowerPC processors have been used on at least three different kinds of systems: NuBus, OldWorld PCI, and NewWorld PCI. Nubus systems include the 6100/7100/8100 line of Power Macintoshes. OldWorld systems are most Power Macintoshes with a floppy drive and a PCI bus. Most 603, 603e, 604, and 604e based Power Macintoshes, including the 7200, 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8600, 9500, and 9600 are OldWorld machines. The beige colored G3 systems are also OldWorld.

yaboot will not work on NuBus or OldWorld machines, those will require quik or (for MacOS Pre-9.0.4 only) BootX/miboot.

The NewWorld PowerMacs, for which yaboot is designed, are any PowerMacs in translucent colored plastic cases. That includes all iMacs, iBooks, G4 systems, blue colored G3 systems, and most PowerBooks manufactured in and after 1999.

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HOWTO-Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC

Version 1.04, Feb 22 2004
Chris Tillman