I went through about the same thing when I tried installing linux on my powerbook. The short answer is if you have an old world machine you will have to boot it using a mac os extension called BootX (if memory serves correctly). BootX is kinda tempermental and isn't being supported any more. There is also a bootloaded called quik or something similar for "oldworld" machines. The most helpfull page i've seen regarding powerPC boot ROMS is at: http://netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html And here is the funky part, i've managed to get the newworld loaders to boot on old world machines but with quite a few quirks. I think ya-boot dosen't support it because of the weirdness in all the oldworld machines and various bugs that where stomped out in open firmware 3 Justin ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.