Installing Powermac/Linux on a PCI-based Power Macintosh
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        Paul Mackerras  <Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au>
        Dept. of Computer Science
        Australian National University.
 
        8 June 1997.
 
Powermac/Linux is a Linux kernel port for PCI-based Power Macintoshes.
It offers binary compatibility with MkLinux and with Linux/PPC on PReP
machines.  (Programs written for MkLinux which use Mach system calls
won't run under Powermac/Linux, but there are very few of these.)
Compared to MkLinux, Powermac/Linux runs significantly faster and has
better device support.
 
Powermac/Linux uses Open Firmware for booting, rather than booting via
MacOS as MkLinux does.  Therefore, the next section introduces Open
Firmware and describes how it is used to boot Linux.
 
For those who already have MkLinux installed, it is possible to boot
Powermac/Linux simply by installing a kernel and boot blocks on your
MkLinux root partition.  Otherwise, the most convenient way to install
is to use the Red Hat installer.  Using the Red Hat installer has the
advantage that it gives you an up-to-date system including shared
library support.