Booting an iBook G4 into Linux from an ext3 USB hard drive partition
This post needs to be edited, but here’s the dirty part:
mkofboot -v -b/dev/sda1 -o usb (apple)+(option)+O+F > boot usb0/disk@1:yaboot > dev usb0 ls > boot usb0/disk@1:2,\boot\yaboot or > boot usb0/disk@1:2,\\:tbxi or > boot usb0/disk@1:2,yaboot > dev / ls > devalias yaboot: hd:3,/vmlinux root=/dev/hda3 ro