1 2001-10-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
5 * Add yaboot-howto, Thanks to Chris Tillman.
8 - XFS fixes for large partitions (Brendan O'Dea).
9 - Upgrade libext2fs to 1.25, this adds full ext3 support to yaboot.
10 - Reiserfs fixes (Jeff Mahoney).
11 - Implement the message= configuration option (see yaboot.conf man page).
13 2001-10-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
17 * ybin: Correct a verbosity message.
20 - Add SGI XFS filesystem support.
21 - Rewrite OpenFirmware device path parsing code. This fixes
22 many bugs and inconsistencies in yaboot's file loading.
23 - Fix OpenFirmware filesystem support to automatically convert
24 path separator from / to \. CDROM authors no longer need to use
25 kludges like image=\\install\\powermac\\vmlinux.
26 - Fix kernel loading on some systems.
27 - Allow for getting files from tftp server that does not run a
29 - Fix netboot when using the `n' key.
30 - Fix a great deal of incorrect format strings which could cause
32 - Fix all filesystems to properly return error conditions, and
33 report those error conditions (instead of just saying `image not
35 - Make configuration file open error consistent with other file
37 - Add `help' command to yaboot which prints out basic usage information.
38 - Add non-fatal warning when bootstrap partition has wrong type (pmac only).
39 - Minor code rearrangement.
40 - General cruft removal and code cleanup.
42 * Makefile cleanup, make filesystems configurable.
44 2001-09-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
48 * Add --debug option to yabootconfig
50 * Fix BSD booting support somewhat. The bsd= option's semantics
51 have changed, it must now be set to the BSD root partition. ybin
52 will now install /usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofwboot onto the bootstrap
53 partition when bsd= is present in /etc/yaboot.conf. The dual boot
54 menu will then execute "ofwboot <bsd_root_part>,/bsd" this means
55 the bsd kernel must be at /bsd on the BSD root partition.
57 2001-09-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
61 * Fix Makefile thinko where make install failed if
62 /etc/yaboot.conf already existed.
64 2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
68 * Don't include /etc/yaboot.conf in binary dist, instead put the
69 example in /usr/local/share/doc. This way extracting the tarball
70 from / won't blow away existing configs.
72 * Move strip commands from install target to strip target, install
75 2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
79 * Merging of ybin and yaboot source trees, this is now the
80 official upstream yaboot/ybin source tree.
83 - Various ppc64 & chrp fixes by Peter Bergner, fix fdisk partition
85 - Fix netboot (was broken by reiserfs patch)
87 2001-08-26 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
91 * ofpath became broken on non-scsi systems due to quoting fix.
93 2001-08-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
97 * Fix broken quoting uncovered by debian's current /bin/ash.
99 2001-08-06 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
103 * ofboot: remove <OS-VOLUME-NAME> tag as it was causing the
104 OpenFirmware multibooter to crash.
106 * mkofboot: zero first 800K of bootstrap partition before creating
111 - Supports using an md5 hash as well as plaintext password. (me)
112 - Fix again system.map loading. That also fix an old pending bug
113 we had where yaboot could pass random values for system.map,
114 causing the kernel to mark random pages reserved. (BenH)
115 - IBM CHRP fixes. (Peter Bergner)
116 - Add reiserfs support (Jeff Mahoney)
118 2001-06-30 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
124 - Add support for IBM CHRP, thanks to Marco d'Itri for testing.
125 - Use real wc if available, this speeds up ofpath slightly for scsi.
126 - Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
129 - If installing on IBM CHRP run addnote on yaboot binary before installing.
130 - Reword some error/verbose messages
131 - Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
133 2001-06-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
138 - Now works with braindamaged versions of pdisk.
139 - Add --kernel-args switch which allows boot-floppies to easily
140 add an append= line if needed.
142 2001-06-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
146 * Fix test for strict posix/SUS echo behavior.
148 * Check for printf built into the shell.
150 * yabootconfig: check for and attempt to deal with cross device symlinks.
152 2001-05-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
156 * Added yabootconfig, a script to build a valid /etc/yaboot.conf
159 - Detect IBM CHRP hardware and disable nvram update automatically
160 - Automatically run yabootconfig if /etc/yaboot.conf is missing
161 - Check for PATH_PREFIX environment variable and add all bin and
162 sbin directories from under it to PATH. This is for boot-floppies.
163 - Add bsd= to list of multiboot options.
165 * ofboot: bump maximum number of OSes to 8.
168 - No longer report bogus paths for non-existent scsi devices.
169 - Fix bug where garbage characters were mixed with the
170 OpenFirmware device path.
171 - Fix broken Wallstreet PowerBook support.
172 - Add support for silly devfs naming convention, Thanks to Tom Rini.
174 2001-05-06 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
179 - Hopefully fix random and rare booting problem when chainloading
180 other OSes. Thanks to Segher Boessenkool for the fix.
181 - Add volume name which shows up in the OpenFirmware multiboot
183 - It is now possible to replace the badge icon for the multiboot
184 screen, see examples/README.mbicon.
188 - Includes my previous 1.1.1-eb3 patches for password protection and single-key.
190 * Various spelling errors and clarifications to man pages. Thanks to sword.
192 2001-04-26 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
198 - Add support for Performa 6400_200, PowerMac 4400, and the clones.
199 - Removed `No such file or directory' errors when system has no
203 - If delay= is not set use value of timeout= (converted to
205 - Removed command line options --type, --creator, and long
206 obsolete and deprecated --conffile. The config file options
207 hfstype and hfscreator are still there.
208 - Removed long obsolete and deprecated bootconf= config option.
209 - Removed some old now unneeded debug cruft.
212 - Include version 1.1.1-eb3, this includes the following changes
213 - Adds password protection capabilities.
214 - Add `single-key' option from silo.
217 - Rewrote the yaboot.conf man page, now derived from silo.conf(5)
219 2001-03-22 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
224 - Fix a few bugs that occured when magicboot= was not used.
225 - Add basic support for IBM style bootstrap partitions. These
226 partitions have yaboot dded directly to them. See the yaboot.conf
227 man page regarding fstype for more info, also
228 examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k.
229 - Don't require that ofpath be installed if its not needed.
232 - Added examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k
233 - Man page updates for IBM support.
235 2001-02-19 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
240 - Quiet shell error when run on non-PowerMac (but still
242 - Properly recognize more OldWorld PowerMac G3s.
243 - Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
244 - Require that /proc be mounted.
247 - Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
248 - Make the `not bootable on OldWorld' warning very loud and
250 - Change PATH to make /usr/local the last component instead of
252 - Make the text/background color in the boot menu configurable,
253 see the yaboot.conf(5) man page for details.
254 - Change default foreground color to white per yaboot 1.0.
255 - Remove support for obsolete /etc/ybin.conf.
258 - Clarified the `partition=' variable in the yaboot.conf man page
259 and correct an error in the example in that man page.
260 - Added more comments to included yaboot.conf examples.
263 - Include version 1.1.1
264 - Includes color support
266 2000-11-18 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
270 * ybin: add `brokenosx' option, when used with macosx= ybin makes
271 the MacOSX menu entry execute \System\Library\CoreServices\BootX
272 directly instead of using \\:tbxi. This is necessary for
273 people who insist on installing OSX on HFS+ instead of UFS, since
274 MacOS deblesses HFS+ OSX partitions.
276 2000-10-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
278 * Version 0.29 (the brown paper bag release)
280 * The yaboot.conf man page was broken.
282 * While were at it, include yaboot 0.9 binary (compiled -Os,
285 2000-10-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
289 * ybin: Add mntpoint= option, this allows ybin to install the
290 bootstrap into an already mounted filesystem. This is NOT
291 recommended unless you know what your doing.
293 * ybin: fixed generation of ofboot.b so it will work with nobless
296 2000-10-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
300 * ofboot: fixed problem where text was not visible on some newer iMacs.
302 * ybin: Now warn the user when they are using ybin on an OldWorld
303 PowerMac. (it will still work since its possible to make newworld
304 bootable disks on an OldWorld mac)
306 * ofpath: Now works on oldworld macs under 2.4 kernels.
308 * Added check for packaged versions of ybin to the Makefile and
309 warn user about them.
311 2000-09-23 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
315 * ofboot: completely rewrote the generator script, it is now more
316 extendable and supports more menu options. More thanks to iNOUE
317 Koich! for the continuing help on OpenFirmware issues!!
319 * ybin: added options for mulitboot menu: now can create a menu
320 with options for GNU/Linux, MacOS, MacOSX, Darwin, and booting off
321 a CDROM, from the network, and even directly into an OpenFirmware
324 * ybin: some errors were sent to stdout instead of stderr, fixed.
326 * ofpath: refuse to run on anything but GNU/Linux. (for now anyway)
328 2000-09-18 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
332 * ofboot: now changes the background color to black and the text
333 color to cyan like yaboot. Thanks to again to iNOUE Koich!
335 2000-09-16 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
339 * ofboot: many bugs in the Forth code fixed. code should now be
340 compliant to the OpenFirmware spec. Also add CD boot menu option.
341 (add enablecdboot to /etc/yaboot.conf) Thanks to iNOUE Koich! for
344 2000-09-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
348 * ybin: now hard code the target filename for ofboot, its always
349 installed as ofboot.b on the bootstrap partition. This eliminates
350 ambiguity when someone tries a different script with different name.
352 * ybin: all debugging output goes to stderr now.
354 2000-09-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
358 * ofboot.b renamed to ofboot. (.b means boot block which this is not)
360 * yaboot and ofboot are now installed in /usr/local/lib/yaboot/
361 instead of /boot, since these files are never directly accessed by
362 the firmware it is not really appropriate to keep them in /boot.
363 make install will create backwords compatibility symlinks when
364 installing over an older version of ybin so nothing should break.
365 IMPORTANT: you should run mkofboot on a dedicated bootstrap
366 partition to purge old filenames.
368 * Man pages updated to reflect new file locations. Also include a
369 patch to change the paths to /usr/lib/yaboot for Debian and redhat
372 * ybin: now checks two places for a default value for install=
373 /usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot, /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot.
375 2000-09-02 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
379 * ybin: fixed nvram update so it uses a real filename instead of
380 \\:tbxi when nobless is set in /etc/yaboot.conf. (\\: means find
381 file in blessed directory).
383 * ofpath: more oldworld machines supported. Now supports 7200,
384 7300, 8600, 9500, Gossamer G3, PowerBook 1998, PowerBook 3400 (and
387 2000-08-31 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
391 * ybin: check for Newworld compatible nvsetenv and if found will
392 automatically update the OpenFirmware boot-device variable in
395 * ofpath: support some oldworld machines. (this does not mean
396 ybin/yaboot supports oldworld). Also silence a harmless error on
397 machines lacking a CDROM.
399 * ofboot.b: added more machines to <COMPATIBLE>
401 2000-08-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
405 * Added PowerMac3,2 and PowerMac3,3 to ofboot.b scripts. Fixes
408 2000-08-22 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
412 * ofboot.b: changed the yaboot boot commands to boot yaboot by
413 filename rather then file type. Booting by file type did not work
414 reliably on all machines.
416 * ybin: hard code the target filename for yaboot, regardless of
417 the source filename (from install=) the target filename on the
418 bootstrap partition will always be "yaboot.b".
420 * Added ofpath utility, this is a rewrite of the show_of_path.sh
421 utility written by Olaf Hering. Ofpath works with /bin/ash and on
422 stripped down systems such as the Debian boot floppies. Also
423 wrote a small man page for this utility.
425 * ybin: automatically use ofpath to find the OpenFirmware device
426 path when ofpath= is not defined in /etc/yaboot.conf. Ybin will
427 also use ofpath when macos= or macosx= are set to unix device
428 nodes (ie /dev/hda11), these options can still be set to
429 OpenFirmware paths as well.
431 * Makefile: minor cleanup, added installation of ofpath
432 utility/man page as well as a deinstall rule.
434 2000-08-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
438 * Yaboot 0.7 binary included.
440 * ybin: fix bug where ybin would fail if the bootstrap files
441 included an "_" in the filename. (actually its a workaround for
442 hfsutils brain-damage)
444 * ofboot.b: completely rewritten. Now includes shell script code
445 to allow ybin to configure it based on config options in
446 /etc/yaboot.conf instead of requiring the user to edit it
447 themselves. Additionally this new script will display a REAL boot
448 menu when dual booting is configured. It is capable of dual or
449 tri booting GNU/Linux (yaboot), MacOS 8.*/9.* and MacOSX. This
450 new ofboot.b script should *NOT* be edited by the user, and thus
451 should NOT be marked as a conffile in Debian and redhat packages.
452 These packages should now install ofboot.b in /boot instead of
453 /etc since it is no longer a config file. WARNING: The Forth code
454 in this script has not been tested on all machines and may not be
455 universally compatible. Thanks to Chris Emerson for writing the
458 * yaboot.conf: new options: ofboot= macos= macosx= delay=
459 defaultos=. See the yaboot.conf man page for details.
461 * Now include a Makefile to handle installation, only make install
462 is defined. Removed install-sh.
464 * mkofboot is now distributed and installed as a symlink instead
469 2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
473 * menu_ofboot.b: fixed bug where the yaboot line was missing the
474 boot command, this prevented it from booting yaboot.
476 2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
480 * Merge quik's bootstrap(8) man page with ybin's ofboot(8) man
481 page and rename it back to bootstrap(8). This also solves the
482 conflict with quik. In a more useful way IMO.
484 2000-04-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
488 * Ship man pages uncompressed, gzip them in install-sh instead,
489 this allows for easier patching by debian maintainers if need be.
491 * Rename bootstrap(8) man page to ofboot(8) so ybin does not
494 2000-04-23 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
498 * Rewrote the config file parsing yet again to remove dependencies
499 on tr, and awk. This allows ybin to function on minimal systems
500 such as boot/rescue floppies. This also pretty much solves the
501 slowness problem. Thanks to Daniel Jacobwitz for the help.
503 * Made changes to remove dependencies on basename and wc. Again
504 this is to allow ybin to work on boot floppies.
506 * Changed all calls to grep to stop using GNU extensions, this is
507 so ybin will work properly with the minimal version of grep
510 * Added signal handling so ybin/mkofboot will cleanup after
511 themselves if killed with signals 1 2 3 or 15.
513 * Added OS Badge icons to the ofboot.b scripts. On G4 machines
514 you can hold down the option key and get a graphical boot selector
515 with one button for each bootable partition, the button with the
516 penguin icon is the bootstrap partition. Thanks to Nicholas
517 Humfrey for creating the Badge icon.
519 * Minor updates to the man pages.
521 2000-04-19 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
525 * Now include yaboot binary in ybin distribution.
527 * Include a install-sh script to install everything.
529 * Use of the separate ybin.conf file is deprecated. Use
530 /etc/yaboot.conf instead.
532 * Removed the so called kludge options, without being able to
533 bless the root directory they were just useless bloat.
535 * Removed useless --readonly option, it was already default (as it
538 * Deprecated bootconf options since the yaboot.conf is the same
539 config ybin uses. (it is still there and works but that may change)
541 * Changed configuration file format to be more like quik/lilo:
542 bootfile= is now install= (--bootfile is now --install), wrapper=
543 is now magicboot=, usemount, protect, and hide are now just a
544 keyword options, if they are present in the configuration file
545 they are turned on, if they are not present they are turned off.
546 bless= is now the nobless keyword option, since bless is default
547 this one changed names.
549 * ybin: no longer need to specify -C /dev/null if you don't have a
550 configuration file in /etc/. If this is the case ybin will generate
551 a generic yaboot.conf to install on the bootstrap partition.
553 * More changes to the configuration parsing to improve speed, the
554 format change also helped the speed problem.
556 * Added man pages for ybin, mkofboot, yaboot, yaboot.conf and
559 * More general fixes/cleanup/tweaks.
561 2000-03-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
565 * Added command line options to both scripts, try --help. This
566 makes the ybin.conf file optional if you wish (-C /dev/null)
568 * Changed the way the config file is parsed, no longer source it
569 with the shell, this allows ybin.conf to be merged with
570 yaboot.conf at which point yaboot can live with unknown options in
573 * Use /etc/ybin.conf if it exists, if not use /etc/yaboot.conf for
576 * Merged ybin and mkofboot into one script, mkofboot shared 90% of
577 of its code with ybin anyway and this will make them much easier
578 to maintain. mkofboot is now a hard link to ybin (or a symlink if
579 you prefer, both will work)
581 * Added an experimental feature to generate a yaboot.conf on the
582 fly based on command line options. The defaults should be
583 workable on a Debian system with an internal ATA disk, with the
584 root partition being the 3rd on the disk. Depends on mktemp for
585 creating the temporary file, Debian's mktemp is secure against
586 race conditions, use with caution if your distribution lacks a
587 secure mktemp utility. This option is activated with -c auto.
589 * No longer depends on bash. Works with Debian's
590 /bin/ash. Interpreter is now set to /bin/sh.
592 * Assorted cleanup, minor bug fixes.
594 * Added example yaboot.conf.
596 2000-02-04 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
600 * Added a simple multi-boot menu written by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.
602 2000-01-17 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
606 * mkofboot was still broken. :-(
609 2000-01-14 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
613 * Added a basic CHRP script ofboot.b to work around the problem of
614 OF refusing to load `tbxi' files unless they contain a CHRP boot
615 header. See README.ofboot.b for details.
617 * Updated default ybin.conf to install ofboot.b by default.
619 2000-01-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
623 * mkofboot: Check for hformat was broken.
625 2000-01-12 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
629 * mkofboot: Fixed problem where it was insisting that mkdosfs be
630 present even when using hfs filesystems if usemount=yes.
632 * mkofboot: Added proper checks for hformat or mkdosfs.
634 2000-01-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
638 * First public release.
640 * Add TODO and BUGS files.
642 * mkofboot: Check to see if usemount=yes, and if so make sure we
643 are root before proceeding to erase the partition.
645 * ybin: Removed useless echo line.
647 2000-01-05 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
651 * ybin (util_install): Fully support OF `wrappers' now: if a
652 wrapper is defined in the configuration file then the wrapper is
653 given the HFS file type specified instead of the bootfile, the
654 bootfile's type is set to "boot".
656 * ybin: New configuration option `bless' when yes and are using
657 hfsutils we will `bless' the root directory of the bootstrap
658 filesystem so OF should be able to find and boot the system
659 without reconfiguration.
661 * mkofboot/ybin (checkconf): Add validation for the new `bless'
662 option. Also add check that the wrapper, if defined, exists and we
663 have permission to it.
665 2000-01-04 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
669 * ybin (util_install): Quote the filetype/creator arguments to
670 hattrib to prevent the shell from interpreting any meta-characters
671 in some cases. Also no longer try and set metadata on wrapper if
674 * mkofboot: When creating hfs or dos filesystems give them volume
675 label of "bootstrap".
677 2000-01-03 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
681 * mkofboot: added -w switch to grep when checking if a filesystem
682 is already mounted to prevent erroneous positive matches.
684 * ybin (util_install): Add check to make sure that the target
685 device is not mounted as a filesystem before mucking with it.
689 2000-01-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>