I have one of the new 12" Powerbooks.  I just finished re-partitioning and
re-installing OS X.  Unfortunately I've already encountered a problem. 
According to
http://lists.penguinppc.org/yaboot-announce/2003/yaboot-announce-200302/msg00000.html
(the release announcement for Yaboot 1.3.9) previous yaboot versions will
not work on the new powerbooks.  I can reproduce this problem.

Holding down the "c" key on boot does not boot the cd.  So, Used the
command+option+O+F magik key combination.  I succesfully loaded yaboot but
upon loading i get an error about not being able to read yaboot.conf.  I
can give the exact error if you need it (I don't want to reboot halfway
through writing an email :) ).  I do get a yaboot prompt but no splash
screen or the "Welcome" message.  I don't think that it's a bad cd problem
because i verified the MD5 sum and am able to read the documentation on
the cd.

Any chance that yaboot will be updated for the next beta/rc?  Any ETA on
the next PPC release? :)

I can't wait to load linux on my shiny new Powerbook. :)

BTW, this is beta 2 and I'm a pretty tech savvy linux user of about 4
years, so I can answer most tech questions you might need answering to
resolve this.

Happy Cooking!

rob



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