There are two major version of the PowerMac's OpenFirmware - one used on "old world", and one on "new world" PowerMac. "New world" refers to coloured PowerPCs manufactured since 1999. They have significant differences. However, both understand partition maps.
Both require that the user choose exactly one partition to be the boot partition (the partition with the boot loader). However, they use different mechanisms to do this.
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