Yellow Dog on Mac G4 Cube

Hi,

I have a Mac G4 cube which I have been given with no OS installed, I've
already had a fight with OS X which wouldn't install. I have managed to
get Yellow Dog installed with no errors however it's not booting, just
sits there with the folder icon in the middle of the screen.

On looking round the groups I've found numerous messages refering to
Yaboot but nothing I try seems to do anything, although I have yet to
try re-partitioning to include a 'bootstrap' partition as I thought
that was what the /boot on Linux was for.

Basically I'm lost, and have been for 3 days now. Has anyone had any
experience with installing Yellow Dog on a Mac G4 cube (or any other
Mac, if it's the same concept?).

Thank you in advance.
Humous.

.

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