1 2001-10-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
6 - Add SGI XFS filesystem support.
7 - Rewrite OpenFirmware device path parsing code. This fixes
8 many bugs and inconsistencies in yaboot's file loading.
9 - Fix OpenFirmware filesystem support to automatically convert
10 path separator from / to \. CDROM authors no longer need to use
11 hacks like image=\\install\\powermac\\vmlinux.
12 - Fix kernel loading on some systems.
13 - Allow for getting files from tftp server that does not run a
15 - Fix a great deal of incorrect format strings which could cause
17 - Fix all filesystems to properly return error conditions, and
18 report those error conditions (instead of just saying `image not
20 - Add `help' command to yaboot which prints out basic usage information.
21 - General cruft removal and code cleanup.
23 * Makefile cleanup, make filesystems configurable.
25 2001-09-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
29 * Add --debug option to yabootconfig
31 * Fix BSD booting support somewhat. The bsd= option's semantics
32 have changed, it must now be set to the BSD root partition. ybin
33 will now install /usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofwboot onto the bootstrap
34 partition when bsd= is present in /etc/yaboot.conf. The dual boot
35 menu will then execute "ofwboot <bsd_root_part>,/bsd" this means
36 the bsd kernel must be at /bsd on the BSD root partition.
38 2001-09-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
42 * Fix Makefile thinko where make install failed if
43 /etc/yaboot.conf already existed.
45 2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
49 * Don't include /etc/yaboot.conf in binary dist, instead put the
50 example in /usr/local/share/doc. This way extracting the tarball
51 from / won't blow away existing configs.
53 * Move strip commands from install target to strip target, install
56 2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
60 * Merging of ybin and yaboot source trees, this is now the
61 official upstream yaboot/ybin source tree.
64 - Various ppc64 & chrp fixes by Peter Bergner, fix fdisk partition
66 - Fix netboot (was broken by reiserfs patch)
68 2001-08-26 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
72 * ofpath became broken on non-scsi systems due to quoting fix.
74 2001-08-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
78 * Fix broken quoting uncovered by debian's current /bin/ash.
80 2001-08-06 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
84 * ofboot: remove <OS-VOLUME-NAME> tag as it was causing the
85 OpenFirmware multibooter to crash.
87 * mkofboot: zero first 800K of bootstrap partition before creating
92 - Supports using an md5 hash as well as plaintext password. (me)
93 - Fix again system.map loading. That also fix an old pending bug
94 we had where yaboot could pass random values for system.map,
95 causing the kernel to mark random pages reserved. (BenH)
96 - IBM CHRP fixes. (Peter Bergner)
97 - Add reiserfs support (Jeff Mahoney)
99 2001-06-30 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
105 - Add support for IBM CHRP, thanks to Marco d'Itri for testing.
106 - Use real wc if available, this speeds up ofpath slightly for scsi.
107 - Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
110 - If installing on IBM CHRP run addnote on yaboot binary before installing.
111 - Reword some error/verbose messages
112 - Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
114 2001-06-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
119 - Now works with braindamaged versions of pdisk.
120 - Add --kernel-args switch which allows boot-floppies to easily
121 add an append= line if needed.
123 2001-06-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
127 * Fix test for strict posix/SUS echo behavior.
129 * Check for printf built into the shell.
131 * yabootconfig: check for and attempt to deal with cross device symlinks.
133 2001-05-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
137 * Added yabootconfig, a script to build a valid /etc/yaboot.conf
140 - Detect IBM CHRP hardware and disable nvram update automatically
141 - Automatically run yabootconfig if /etc/yaboot.conf is missing
142 - Check for PATH_PREFIX environment variable and add all bin and
143 sbin directories from under it to PATH. This is for boot-floppies.
144 - Add bsd= to list of multiboot options.
146 * ofboot: bump maximum number of OSes to 8.
149 - No longer report bogus paths for non-existent scsi devices.
150 - Fix bug where garbage characters were mixed with the
151 OpenFirmware device path.
152 - Fix broken Wallstreet PowerBook support.
153 - Add support for silly devfs naming convention, Thanks to Tom Rini.
155 2001-05-06 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
160 - Hopefully fix random and rare booting problem when chainloading
161 other OSes. Thanks to Segher Boessenkool for the fix.
162 - Add volume name which shows up in the OpenFirmware multiboot
164 - It is now possible to replace the badge icon for the multiboot
165 screen, see examples/README.mbicon.
169 - Includes my previous 1.1.1-eb3 patches for password protection and single-key.
171 * Various spelling errors and clarifications to man pages. Thanks to sword.
173 2001-04-26 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
179 - Add support for Performa 6400_200, PowerMac 4400, and the clones.
180 - Removed `No such file or directory' errors when system has no
184 - If delay= is not set use value of timeout= (converted to
186 - Removed command line options --type, --creator, and long
187 obsolete and deprecated --conffile. The config file options
188 hfstype and hfscreator are still there.
189 - Removed long obsolete and deprecated bootconf= config option.
190 - Removed some old now unneeded debug cruft.
193 - Include version 1.1.1-eb3, this includes the following changes
194 - Adds password protection capabilities.
195 - Add `single-key' option from silo.
198 - Rewrote the yaboot.conf man page, now derived from silo.conf(5)
200 2001-03-22 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
205 - Fix a few bugs that occured when magicboot= was not used.
206 - Add basic support for IBM style bootstrap partitions. These
207 partitions have yaboot dded directly to them. See the yaboot.conf
208 man page regarding fstype for more info, also
209 examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k.
210 - Don't require that ofpath be installed if its not needed.
213 - Added examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k
214 - Man page updates for IBM support.
216 2001-02-19 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
221 - Quiet shell error when run on non-PowerMac (but still
223 - Properly recognize more OldWorld PowerMac G3s.
224 - Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
225 - Require that /proc be mounted.
228 - Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
229 - Make the `not bootable on OldWorld' warning very loud and
231 - Change PATH to make /usr/local the last component instead of
233 - Make the text/background color in the boot menu configurable,
234 see the yaboot.conf(5) man page for details.
235 - Change default foreground color to white per yaboot 1.0.
236 - Remove support for obsolete /etc/ybin.conf.
239 - Clarified the `partition=' variable in the yaboot.conf man page
240 and correct an error in the example in that man page.
241 - Added more comments to included yaboot.conf examples.
244 - Include version 1.1.1
245 - Includes color support
247 2000-11-18 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
251 * ybin: add `brokenosx' option, when used with macosx= ybin makes
252 the MacOSX menu entry execute \System\Library\CoreServices\BootX
253 directly instead of using \\:tbxi. This is necessary for
254 people who insist on installing OSX on HFS+ instead of UFS, since
255 MacOS deblesses HFS+ OSX partitions.
257 2000-10-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
259 * Version 0.29 (the brown paper bag release)
261 * The yaboot.conf man page was broken.
263 * While were at it, include yaboot 0.9 binary (compiled -Os,
266 2000-10-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
270 * ybin: Add mntpoint= option, this allows ybin to install the
271 bootstrap into an already mounted filesystem. This is NOT
272 recommended unless you know what your doing.
274 * ybin: fixed generation of ofboot.b so it will work with nobless
277 2000-10-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
281 * ofboot: fixed problem where text was not visible on some newer iMacs.
283 * ybin: Now warn the user when they are using ybin on an OldWorld
284 PowerMac. (it will still work since its possible to make newworld
285 bootable disks on an OldWorld mac)
287 * ofpath: Now works on oldworld macs under 2.4 kernels.
289 * Added check for packaged versions of ybin to the Makefile and
290 warn user about them.
292 2000-09-23 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
296 * ofboot: completely rewrote the generator script, it is now more
297 extendable and supports more menu options. More thanks to iNOUE
298 Koich! for the continuing help on OpenFirmware issues!!
300 * ybin: added options for mulitboot menu: now can create a menu
301 with options for GNU/Linux, MacOS, MacOSX, Darwin, and booting off
302 a CDROM, from the network, and even directly into an OpenFirmware
305 * ybin: some errors were sent to stdout instead of stderr, fixed.
307 * ofpath: refuse to run on anything but GNU/Linux. (for now anyway)
309 2000-09-18 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
313 * ofboot: now changes the background color to black and the text
314 color to cyan like yaboot. Thanks to again to iNOUE Koich!
316 2000-09-16 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
320 * ofboot: many bugs in the Forth code fixed. code should now be
321 compliant to the OpenFirmware spec. Also add CD boot menu option.
322 (add enablecdboot to /etc/yaboot.conf) Thanks to iNOUE Koich! for
325 2000-09-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
329 * ybin: now hard code the target filename for ofboot, its always
330 installed as ofboot.b on the bootstrap partition. This eliminates
331 ambiguity when someone tries a different script with different name.
333 * ybin: all debugging output goes to stderr now.
335 2000-09-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
339 * ofboot.b renamed to ofboot. (.b means boot block which this is not)
341 * yaboot and ofboot are now installed in /usr/local/lib/yaboot/
342 instead of /boot, since these files are never directly accessed by
343 the firmware it is not really appropriate to keep them in /boot.
344 make install will create backwords compatibility symlinks when
345 installing over an older version of ybin so nothing should break.
346 IMPORTANT: you should run mkofboot on a dedicated bootstrap
347 partition to purge old filenames.
349 * Man pages updated to reflect new file locations. Also include a
350 patch to change the paths to /usr/lib/yaboot for Debian and redhat
353 * ybin: now checks two places for a default value for install=
354 /usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot, /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot.
356 2000-09-02 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
360 * ybin: fixed nvram update so it uses a real filename instead of
361 \\:tbxi when nobless is set in /etc/yaboot.conf. (\\: means find
362 file in blessed directory).
364 * ofpath: more oldworld machines supported. Now supports 7200,
365 7300, 8600, 9500, Gossamer G3, PowerBook 1998, PowerBook 3400 (and
368 2000-08-31 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
372 * ybin: check for Newworld compatible nvsetenv and if found will
373 automatically update the OpenFirmware boot-device variable in
376 * ofpath: support some oldworld machines. (this does not mean
377 ybin/yaboot supports oldworld). Also silence a harmless error on
378 machines lacking a CDROM.
380 * ofboot.b: added more machines to <COMPATIBLE>
382 2000-08-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
386 * Added PowerMac3,2 and PowerMac3,3 to ofboot.b scripts. Fixes
389 2000-08-22 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
393 * ofboot.b: changed the yaboot boot commands to boot yaboot by
394 filename rather then file type. Booting by file type did not work
395 reliably on all machines.
397 * ybin: hard code the target filename for yaboot, regardless of
398 the source filename (from install=) the target filename on the
399 bootstrap partition will always be "yaboot.b".
401 * Added ofpath utility, this is a rewrite of the show_of_path.sh
402 utility written by Olaf Hering. Ofpath works with /bin/ash and on
403 stripped down systems such as the Debian boot floppies. Also
404 wrote a small man page for this utility.
406 * ybin: automatically use ofpath to find the OpenFirmware device
407 path when ofpath= is not defined in /etc/yaboot.conf. Ybin will
408 also use ofpath when macos= or macosx= are set to unix device
409 nodes (ie /dev/hda11), these options can still be set to
410 OpenFirmware paths as well.
412 * Makefile: minor cleanup, added installation of ofpath
413 utility/man page as well as a deinstall rule.
415 2000-08-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
419 * Yaboot 0.7 binary included.
421 * ybin: fix bug where ybin would fail if the bootstrap files
422 included an "_" in the filename. (actually its a workaround for
423 hfsutils brain-damage)
425 * ofboot.b: completely rewritten. Now includes shell script code
426 to allow ybin to configure it based on config options in
427 /etc/yaboot.conf instead of requiring the user to edit it
428 themselves. Additionally this new script will display a REAL boot
429 menu when dual booting is configured. It is capable of dual or
430 tri booting GNU/Linux (yaboot), MacOS 8.*/9.* and MacOSX. This
431 new ofboot.b script should *NOT* be edited by the user, and thus
432 should NOT be marked as a conffile in Debian and redhat packages.
433 These packages should now install ofboot.b in /boot instead of
434 /etc since it is no longer a config file. WARNING: The Forth code
435 in this script has not been tested on all machines and may not be
436 universally compatible. Thanks to Chris Emerson for writing the
439 * yaboot.conf: new options: ofboot= macos= macosx= delay=
440 defaultos=. See the yaboot.conf man page for details.
442 * Now include a Makefile to handle installation, only make install
443 is defined. Removed install-sh.
445 * mkofboot is now distributed and installed as a symlink instead
450 2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
454 * menu_ofboot.b: fixed bug where the yaboot line was missing the
455 boot command, this prevented it from booting yaboot.
457 2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
461 * Merge quik's bootstrap(8) man page with ybin's ofboot(8) man
462 page and rename it back to bootstrap(8). This also solves the
463 conflict with quik. In a more useful way IMO.
465 2000-04-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
469 * Ship man pages uncompressed, gzip them in install-sh instead,
470 this allows for easier patching by debian maintainers if need be.
472 * Rename bootstrap(8) man page to ofboot(8) so ybin does not
475 2000-04-23 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
479 * Rewrote the config file parsing yet again to remove dependencies
480 on tr, and awk. This allows ybin to function on minimal systems
481 such as boot/rescue floppies. This also pretty much solves the
482 slowness problem. Thanks to Daniel Jacobwitz for the help.
484 * Made changes to remove dependencies on basename and wc. Again
485 this is to allow ybin to work on boot floppies.
487 * Changed all calls to grep to stop using GNU extensions, this is
488 so ybin will work properly with the minimal version of grep
491 * Added signal handling so ybin/mkofboot will cleanup after
492 themselves if killed with signals 1 2 3 or 15.
494 * Added OS Badge icons to the ofboot.b scripts. On G4 machines
495 you can hold down the option key and get a graphical boot selector
496 with one button for each bootable partition, the button with the
497 penguin icon is the bootstrap partition. Thanks to Nicholas
498 Humfrey for creating the Badge icon.
500 * Minor updates to the man pages.
502 2000-04-19 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
506 * Now include yaboot binary in ybin distribution.
508 * Include a install-sh script to install everything.
510 * Use of the separate ybin.conf file is deprecated. Use
511 /etc/yaboot.conf instead.
513 * Removed the so called kludge options, without being able to
514 bless the root directory they were just useless bloat.
516 * Removed useless --readonly option, it was already default (as it
519 * Deprecated bootconf options since the yaboot.conf is the same
520 config ybin uses. (it is still there and works but that may change)
522 * Changed configuration file format to be more like quik/lilo:
523 bootfile= is now install= (--bootfile is now --install), wrapper=
524 is now magicboot=, usemount, protect, and hide are now just a
525 keyword options, if they are present in the configuration file
526 they are turned on, if they are not present they are turned off.
527 bless= is now the nobless keyword option, since bless is default
528 this one changed names.
530 * ybin: no longer need to specify -C /dev/null if you don't have a
531 configuration file in /etc/. If this is the case ybin will generate
532 a generic yaboot.conf to install on the bootstrap partition.
534 * More changes to the configuration parsing to improve speed, the
535 format change also helped the speed problem.
537 * Added man pages for ybin, mkofboot, yaboot, yaboot.conf and
540 * More general fixes/cleanup/tweaks.
542 2000-03-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
546 * Added command line options to both scripts, try --help. This
547 makes the ybin.conf file optional if you wish (-C /dev/null)
549 * Changed the way the config file is parsed, no longer source it
550 with the shell, this allows ybin.conf to be merged with
551 yaboot.conf at which point yaboot can live with unknown options in
554 * Use /etc/ybin.conf if it exists, if not use /etc/yaboot.conf for
557 * Merged ybin and mkofboot into one script, mkofboot shared 90% of
558 of its code with ybin anyway and this will make them much easier
559 to maintain. mkofboot is now a hard link to ybin (or a symlink if
560 you prefer, both will work)
562 * Added an experimental feature to generate a yaboot.conf on the
563 fly based on command line options. The defaults should be
564 workable on a Debian system with an internal ATA disk, with the
565 root partition being the 3rd on the disk. Depends on mktemp for
566 creating the temporary file, Debian's mktemp is secure against
567 race conditions, use with caution if your distribution lacks a
568 secure mktemp utility. This option is activated with -c auto.
570 * No longer depends on bash. Works with Debian's
571 /bin/ash. Interpreter is now set to /bin/sh.
573 * Assorted cleanup, minor bug fixes.
575 * Added example yaboot.conf.
577 2000-02-04 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
581 * Added a simple multi-boot menu written by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.
583 2000-01-17 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
587 * mkofboot was still broken. :-(
590 2000-01-14 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
594 * Added a basic CHRP script ofboot.b to work around the problem of
595 OF refusing to load `tbxi' files unless they contain a CHRP boot
596 header. See README.ofboot.b for details.
598 * Updated default ybin.conf to install ofboot.b by default.
600 2000-01-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
604 * mkofboot: Check for hformat was broken.
606 2000-01-12 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
610 * mkofboot: Fixed problem where it was insisting that mkdosfs be
611 present even when using hfs filesystems if usemount=yes.
613 * mkofboot: Added proper checks for hformat or mkdosfs.
615 2000-01-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
619 * First public release.
621 * Add TODO and BUGS files.
623 * mkofboot: Check to see if usemount=yes, and if so make sure we
624 are root before proceeding to erase the partition.
626 * ybin: Removed useless echo line.
628 2000-01-05 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
632 * ybin (util_install): Fully support OF `wrappers' now: if a
633 wrapper is defined in the configuration file then the wrapper is
634 given the HFS file type specified instead of the bootfile, the
635 bootfile's type is set to "boot".
637 * ybin: New configuration option `bless' when yes and are using
638 hfsutils we will `bless' the root directory of the bootstrap
639 filesystem so OF should be able to find and boot the system
640 without reconfiguration.
642 * mkofboot/ybin (checkconf): Add validation for the new `bless'
643 option. Also add check that the wrapper, if defined, exists and we
644 have permission to it.
646 2000-01-04 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
650 * ybin (util_install): Quote the filetype/creator arguments to
651 hattrib to prevent the shell from interpreting any meta-characters
652 in some cases. Also no longer try and set metadata on wrapper if
655 * mkofboot: When creating hfs or dos filesystems give them volume
656 label of "bootstrap".
658 2000-01-03 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
662 * mkofboot: added -w switch to grep when checking if a filesystem
663 is already mounted to prevent erroneous positive matches.
665 * ybin (util_install): Add check to make sure that the target
666 device is not mounted as a filesystem before mucking with it.
670 2000-01-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>