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5 * Mark first stage bootloader as compatible with new MacOS9
6 incompatible PowerMacs.
8 * Really fix file search so IBM CHRP will work if there is more than
9 one type 0x83 partition.
11 2002-12-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
15 * ofpath: Support new Xserve and Windtunnel PowerMacs.
16 - NOTE: For this to fully work it requires a sufficiently recent
19 * Prefer $PATH_PREFIX/usr/sbin/ofpath if it exists.
21 * yabootconfig: Add append="video=ofonly" if the running kernel
22 was booted with it, only if user does not specify --kernel-args.
24 2002-9-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
29 - Add German translation of yaboot-howto.
30 - Small updates to yaboot-howto.
31 - No longer tell people to send bugs to benh in yabootconfig(8).
34 - Fix file search so IBM CHRP will work if there is more than
35 one type 0x83 partition.
36 - Fix possible reiserfs symlink resolution failure.
39 - Fix corner case /etc/fstab parsing failure. (Debian bug#156742).
41 * Small build system modifications (mostly to accommodate the use of
42 the arch revision control system.
44 * yaboot now includes two changelogs: "ChangeLog" which is a
45 detailed automatically generated list of changes, and "changelog"
46 (this file) which is a hand written understandable summary of
47 changes between releases.
49 2001-12-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
53 * The "IBM needs to test prereleases" release.
56 - New IGNORE^H^H^H^H^H^HREADME, thanks to Chris Tillman for
57 cleaning up the pile of cruft that this thing was.
58 - yabootconfig man page was missing --kernel-args from SYNOPSIS.
59 - Include README.rs6000 in the binary dist.
62 - Automatically use fstype=raw on IBM CHRP, it no longer needs
63 to be explicitly set in /etc/yaboot.conf.
64 - Deprecate ybin's yaboot.conf auto-generation, use yabootconfig
68 - Fix IBM CHRP support.
69 - Fix device path parsing to support devices containing a comma,
70 but not including a filename.
71 - Add support for zImage.initrd (Peter Bergner).
72 - help output no longer claims device=NULL if yaboot.conf does not define it.
73 - Make password prompting a bit nicer looking.
74 - Short penalty delay on incorrect passwords.
76 2001-10-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
80 * Add yaboot-howto, Thanks to Chris Tillman.
83 - XFS fixes for large partitions (Brendan O'Dea).
84 - Upgrade libext2fs to 1.25, this adds full ext3 support to yaboot.
85 - Reiserfs fixes (Jeff Mahoney).
86 - Implement the message= configuration option (see yaboot.conf man page).
88 2001-10-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
92 * ybin: Correct a verbosity message.
95 - Add SGI XFS filesystem support.
96 - Rewrite OpenFirmware device path parsing code. This fixes
97 many bugs and inconsistencies in yaboot's file loading.
98 - Fix OpenFirmware filesystem support to automatically convert
99 path separator from / to \. CDROM authors no longer need to use
100 kludges like image=\\install\\powermac\\vmlinux.
101 - Fix kernel loading on some systems.
102 - Allow for getting files from tftp server that does not run a
104 - Fix netboot when using the `n' key.
105 - Fix a great deal of incorrect format strings which could cause
107 - Fix all filesystems to properly return error conditions, and
108 report those error conditions (instead of just saying `image not
110 - Make configuration file open error consistent with other file
112 - Add `help' command to yaboot which prints out basic usage information.
113 - Add non-fatal warning when bootstrap partition has wrong type (pmac only).
114 - Minor code rearrangement.
115 - General cruft removal and code cleanup.
117 * Makefile cleanup, make filesystems configurable.
119 2001-09-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
123 * Add --debug option to yabootconfig
125 * Fix BSD booting support somewhat. The bsd= option's semantics
126 have changed, it must now be set to the BSD root partition. ybin
127 will now install /usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofwboot onto the bootstrap
128 partition when bsd= is present in /etc/yaboot.conf. The dual boot
129 menu will then execute "ofwboot <bsd_root_part>,/bsd" this means
130 the bsd kernel must be at /bsd on the BSD root partition.
132 2001-09-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
136 * Fix Makefile thinko where make install failed if
137 /etc/yaboot.conf already existed.
139 2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
143 * Don't include /etc/yaboot.conf in binary dist, instead put the
144 example in /usr/local/share/doc. This way extracting the tarball
145 from / won't blow away existing configs.
147 * Move strip commands from install target to strip target, install
148 now depends on strip.
150 2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
154 * Merging of ybin and yaboot source trees, this is now the
155 official upstream yaboot/ybin source tree.
158 - Various ppc64 & chrp fixes by Peter Bergner, fix fdisk partition
160 - Fix netboot (was broken by reiserfs patch)
162 2001-08-26 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
166 * ofpath became broken on non-scsi systems due to quoting fix.
168 2001-08-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
172 * Fix broken quoting uncovered by debian's current /bin/ash.
174 2001-08-06 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
178 * ofboot: remove <OS-VOLUME-NAME> tag as it was causing the
179 OpenFirmware multibooter to crash.
181 * mkofboot: zero first 800K of bootstrap partition before creating
186 - Supports using an md5 hash as well as plaintext password. (me)
187 - Fix again system.map loading. That also fix an old pending bug
188 we had where yaboot could pass random values for system.map,
189 causing the kernel to mark random pages reserved. (BenH)
190 - IBM CHRP fixes. (Peter Bergner)
191 - Add reiserfs support (Jeff Mahoney)
193 2001-06-30 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
199 - Add support for IBM CHRP, thanks to Marco d'Itri for testing.
200 - Use real wc if available, this speeds up ofpath slightly for scsi.
201 - Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
204 - If installing on IBM CHRP run addnote on yaboot binary before installing.
205 - Reword some error/verbose messages
206 - Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
208 2001-06-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
213 - Now works with braindamaged versions of pdisk.
214 - Add --kernel-args switch which allows boot-floppies to easily
215 add an append= line if needed.
217 2001-06-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
221 * Fix test for strict posix/SUS echo behavior.
223 * Check for printf built into the shell.
225 * yabootconfig: check for and attempt to deal with cross device symlinks.
227 2001-05-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
231 * Added yabootconfig, a script to build a valid /etc/yaboot.conf
234 - Detect IBM CHRP hardware and disable nvram update automatically
235 - Automatically run yabootconfig if /etc/yaboot.conf is missing
236 - Check for PATH_PREFIX environment variable and add all bin and
237 sbin directories from under it to PATH. This is for boot-floppies.
238 - Add bsd= to list of multiboot options.
240 * ofboot: bump maximum number of OSes to 8.
243 - No longer report bogus paths for non-existent scsi devices.
244 - Fix bug where garbage characters were mixed with the
245 OpenFirmware device path.
246 - Fix broken Wallstreet PowerBook support.
247 - Add support for silly devfs naming convention, Thanks to Tom Rini.
249 2001-05-06 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
254 - Hopefully fix random and rare booting problem when chainloading
255 other OSes. Thanks to Segher Boessenkool for the fix.
256 - Add volume name which shows up in the OpenFirmware multiboot
258 - It is now possible to replace the badge icon for the multiboot
259 screen, see examples/README.mbicon.
263 - Includes my previous 1.1.1-eb3 patches for password protection and single-key.
265 * Various spelling errors and clarifications to man pages. Thanks to sword.
267 2001-04-26 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
273 - Add support for Performa 6400_200, PowerMac 4400, and the clones.
274 - Removed `No such file or directory' errors when system has no
278 - If delay= is not set use value of timeout= (converted to
280 - Removed command line options --type, --creator, and long
281 obsolete and deprecated --conffile. The config file options
282 hfstype and hfscreator are still there.
283 - Removed long obsolete and deprecated bootconf= config option.
284 - Removed some old now unneeded debug cruft.
287 - Include version 1.1.1-eb3, this includes the following changes
288 - Adds password protection capabilities.
289 - Add `single-key' option from silo.
292 - Rewrote the yaboot.conf man page, now derived from silo.conf(5)
294 2001-03-22 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
299 - Fix a few bugs that occured when magicboot= was not used.
300 - Add basic support for IBM style bootstrap partitions. These
301 partitions have yaboot dded directly to them. See the yaboot.conf
302 man page regarding fstype for more info, also
303 examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k.
304 - Don't require that ofpath be installed if its not needed.
307 - Added examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k
308 - Man page updates for IBM support.
310 2001-02-19 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
315 - Quiet shell error when run on non-PowerMac (but still
317 - Properly recognize more OldWorld PowerMac G3s.
318 - Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
319 - Require that /proc be mounted.
322 - Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
323 - Make the `not bootable on OldWorld' warning very loud and
325 - Change PATH to make /usr/local the last component instead of
327 - Make the text/background color in the boot menu configurable,
328 see the yaboot.conf(5) man page for details.
329 - Change default foreground color to white per yaboot 1.0.
330 - Remove support for obsolete /etc/ybin.conf.
333 - Clarified the `partition=' variable in the yaboot.conf man page
334 and correct an error in the example in that man page.
335 - Added more comments to included yaboot.conf examples.
338 - Include version 1.1.1
339 - Includes color support
341 2000-11-18 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
345 * ybin: add `brokenosx' option, when used with macosx= ybin makes
346 the MacOSX menu entry execute \System\Library\CoreServices\BootX
347 directly instead of using \\:tbxi. This is necessary for
348 people who insist on installing OSX on HFS+ instead of UFS, since
349 MacOS deblesses HFS+ OSX partitions.
351 2000-10-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
353 * Version 0.29 (the brown paper bag release)
355 * The yaboot.conf man page was broken.
357 * While were at it, include yaboot 0.9 binary (compiled -Os,
360 2000-10-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
364 * ybin: Add mntpoint= option, this allows ybin to install the
365 bootstrap into an already mounted filesystem. This is NOT
366 recommended unless you know what your doing.
368 * ybin: fixed generation of ofboot.b so it will work with nobless
371 2000-10-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
375 * ofboot: fixed problem where text was not visible on some newer iMacs.
377 * ybin: Now warn the user when they are using ybin on an OldWorld
378 PowerMac. (it will still work since its possible to make newworld
379 bootable disks on an OldWorld mac)
381 * ofpath: Now works on oldworld macs under 2.4 kernels.
383 * Added check for packaged versions of ybin to the Makefile and
384 warn user about them.
386 2000-09-23 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
390 * ofboot: completely rewrote the generator script, it is now more
391 extendable and supports more menu options. More thanks to iNOUE
392 Koich! for the continuing help on OpenFirmware issues!!
394 * ybin: added options for mulitboot menu: now can create a menu
395 with options for GNU/Linux, MacOS, MacOSX, Darwin, and booting off
396 a CDROM, from the network, and even directly into an OpenFirmware
399 * ybin: some errors were sent to stdout instead of stderr, fixed.
401 * ofpath: refuse to run on anything but GNU/Linux. (for now anyway)
403 2000-09-18 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
407 * ofboot: now changes the background color to black and the text
408 color to cyan like yaboot. Thanks to again to iNOUE Koich!
410 2000-09-16 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
414 * ofboot: many bugs in the Forth code fixed. code should now be
415 compliant to the OpenFirmware spec. Also add CD boot menu option.
416 (add enablecdboot to /etc/yaboot.conf) Thanks to iNOUE Koich! for
419 2000-09-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
423 * ybin: now hard code the target filename for ofboot, its always
424 installed as ofboot.b on the bootstrap partition. This eliminates
425 ambiguity when someone tries a different script with different name.
427 * ybin: all debugging output goes to stderr now.
429 2000-09-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
433 * ofboot.b renamed to ofboot. (.b means boot block which this is not)
435 * yaboot and ofboot are now installed in /usr/local/lib/yaboot/
436 instead of /boot, since these files are never directly accessed by
437 the firmware it is not really appropriate to keep them in /boot.
438 make install will create backwords compatibility symlinks when
439 installing over an older version of ybin so nothing should break.
440 IMPORTANT: you should run mkofboot on a dedicated bootstrap
441 partition to purge old filenames.
443 * Man pages updated to reflect new file locations. Also include a
444 patch to change the paths to /usr/lib/yaboot for Debian and redhat
447 * ybin: now checks two places for a default value for install=
448 /usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot, /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot.
450 2000-09-02 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
454 * ybin: fixed nvram update so it uses a real filename instead of
455 \\:tbxi when nobless is set in /etc/yaboot.conf. (\\: means find
456 file in blessed directory).
458 * ofpath: more oldworld machines supported. Now supports 7200,
459 7300, 8600, 9500, Gossamer G3, PowerBook 1998, PowerBook 3400 (and
462 2000-08-31 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
466 * ybin: check for Newworld compatible nvsetenv and if found will
467 automatically update the OpenFirmware boot-device variable in
470 * ofpath: support some oldworld machines. (this does not mean
471 ybin/yaboot supports oldworld). Also silence a harmless error on
472 machines lacking a CDROM.
474 * ofboot.b: added more machines to <COMPATIBLE>
476 2000-08-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
480 * Added PowerMac3,2 and PowerMac3,3 to ofboot.b scripts. Fixes
483 2000-08-22 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
487 * ofboot.b: changed the yaboot boot commands to boot yaboot by
488 filename rather then file type. Booting by file type did not work
489 reliably on all machines.
491 * ybin: hard code the target filename for yaboot, regardless of
492 the source filename (from install=) the target filename on the
493 bootstrap partition will always be "yaboot.b".
495 * Added ofpath utility, this is a rewrite of the show_of_path.sh
496 utility written by Olaf Hering. Ofpath works with /bin/ash and on
497 stripped down systems such as the Debian boot floppies. Also
498 wrote a small man page for this utility.
500 * ybin: automatically use ofpath to find the OpenFirmware device
501 path when ofpath= is not defined in /etc/yaboot.conf. Ybin will
502 also use ofpath when macos= or macosx= are set to unix device
503 nodes (ie /dev/hda11), these options can still be set to
504 OpenFirmware paths as well.
506 * Makefile: minor cleanup, added installation of ofpath
507 utility/man page as well as a deinstall rule.
509 2000-08-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
513 * Yaboot 0.7 binary included.
515 * ybin: fix bug where ybin would fail if the bootstrap files
516 included an "_" in the filename. (actually its a workaround for
517 hfsutils brain-damage)
519 * ofboot.b: completely rewritten. Now includes shell script code
520 to allow ybin to configure it based on config options in
521 /etc/yaboot.conf instead of requiring the user to edit it
522 themselves. Additionally this new script will display a REAL boot
523 menu when dual booting is configured. It is capable of dual or
524 tri booting GNU/Linux (yaboot), MacOS 8.*/9.* and MacOSX. This
525 new ofboot.b script should *NOT* be edited by the user, and thus
526 should NOT be marked as a conffile in Debian and redhat packages.
527 These packages should now install ofboot.b in /boot instead of
528 /etc since it is no longer a config file. WARNING: The Forth code
529 in this script has not been tested on all machines and may not be
530 universally compatible. Thanks to Chris Emerson for writing the
533 * yaboot.conf: new options: ofboot= macos= macosx= delay=
534 defaultos=. See the yaboot.conf man page for details.
536 * Now include a Makefile to handle installation, only make install
537 is defined. Removed install-sh.
539 * mkofboot is now distributed and installed as a symlink instead
544 2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
548 * menu_ofboot.b: fixed bug where the yaboot line was missing the
549 boot command, this prevented it from booting yaboot.
551 2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
555 * Merge quik's bootstrap(8) man page with ybin's ofboot(8) man
556 page and rename it back to bootstrap(8). This also solves the
557 conflict with quik. In a more useful way IMO.
559 2000-04-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
563 * Ship man pages uncompressed, gzip them in install-sh instead,
564 this allows for easier patching by debian maintainers if need be.
566 * Rename bootstrap(8) man page to ofboot(8) so ybin does not
569 2000-04-23 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
573 * Rewrote the config file parsing yet again to remove dependencies
574 on tr, and awk. This allows ybin to function on minimal systems
575 such as boot/rescue floppies. This also pretty much solves the
576 slowness problem. Thanks to Daniel Jacobwitz for the help.
578 * Made changes to remove dependencies on basename and wc. Again
579 this is to allow ybin to work on boot floppies.
581 * Changed all calls to grep to stop using GNU extensions, this is
582 so ybin will work properly with the minimal version of grep
585 * Added signal handling so ybin/mkofboot will cleanup after
586 themselves if killed with signals 1 2 3 or 15.
588 * Added OS Badge icons to the ofboot.b scripts. On G4 machines
589 you can hold down the option key and get a graphical boot selector
590 with one button for each bootable partition, the button with the
591 penguin icon is the bootstrap partition. Thanks to Nicholas
592 Humfrey for creating the Badge icon.
594 * Minor updates to the man pages.
596 2000-04-19 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
600 * Now include yaboot binary in ybin distribution.
602 * Include a install-sh script to install everything.
604 * Use of the separate ybin.conf file is deprecated. Use
605 /etc/yaboot.conf instead.
607 * Removed the so called kludge options, without being able to
608 bless the root directory they were just useless bloat.
610 * Removed useless --readonly option, it was already default (as it
613 * Deprecated bootconf options since the yaboot.conf is the same
614 config ybin uses. (it is still there and works but that may change)
616 * Changed configuration file format to be more like quik/lilo:
617 bootfile= is now install= (--bootfile is now --install), wrapper=
618 is now magicboot=, usemount, protect, and hide are now just a
619 keyword options, if they are present in the configuration file
620 they are turned on, if they are not present they are turned off.
621 bless= is now the nobless keyword option, since bless is default
622 this one changed names.
624 * ybin: no longer need to specify -C /dev/null if you don't have a
625 configuration file in /etc/. If this is the case ybin will generate
626 a generic yaboot.conf to install on the bootstrap partition.
628 * More changes to the configuration parsing to improve speed, the
629 format change also helped the speed problem.
631 * Added man pages for ybin, mkofboot, yaboot, yaboot.conf and
634 * More general fixes/cleanup/tweaks.
636 2000-03-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
640 * Added command line options to both scripts, try --help. This
641 makes the ybin.conf file optional if you wish (-C /dev/null)
643 * Changed the way the config file is parsed, no longer source it
644 with the shell, this allows ybin.conf to be merged with
645 yaboot.conf at which point yaboot can live with unknown options in
648 * Use /etc/ybin.conf if it exists, if not use /etc/yaboot.conf for
651 * Merged ybin and mkofboot into one script, mkofboot shared 90% of
652 of its code with ybin anyway and this will make them much easier
653 to maintain. mkofboot is now a hard link to ybin (or a symlink if
654 you prefer, both will work)
656 * Added an experimental feature to generate a yaboot.conf on the
657 fly based on command line options. The defaults should be
658 workable on a Debian system with an internal ATA disk, with the
659 root partition being the 3rd on the disk. Depends on mktemp for
660 creating the temporary file, Debian's mktemp is secure against
661 race conditions, use with caution if your distribution lacks a
662 secure mktemp utility. This option is activated with -c auto.
664 * No longer depends on bash. Works with Debian's
665 /bin/ash. Interpreter is now set to /bin/sh.
667 * Assorted cleanup, minor bug fixes.
669 * Added example yaboot.conf.
671 2000-02-04 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
675 * Added a simple multi-boot menu written by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.
677 2000-01-17 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
681 * mkofboot was still broken. :-(
684 2000-01-14 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
688 * Added a basic CHRP script ofboot.b to work around the problem of
689 OF refusing to load `tbxi' files unless they contain a CHRP boot
690 header. See README.ofboot.b for details.
692 * Updated default ybin.conf to install ofboot.b by default.
694 2000-01-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
698 * mkofboot: Check for hformat was broken.
700 2000-01-12 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
704 * mkofboot: Fixed problem where it was insisting that mkdosfs be
705 present even when using hfs filesystems if usemount=yes.
707 * mkofboot: Added proper checks for hformat or mkdosfs.
709 2000-01-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
713 * First public release.
715 * Add TODO and BUGS files.
717 * mkofboot: Check to see if usemount=yes, and if so make sure we
718 are root before proceeding to erase the partition.
720 * ybin: Removed useless echo line.
722 2000-01-05 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
726 * ybin (util_install): Fully support OF `wrappers' now: if a
727 wrapper is defined in the configuration file then the wrapper is
728 given the HFS file type specified instead of the bootfile, the
729 bootfile's type is set to "boot".
731 * ybin: New configuration option `bless' when yes and are using
732 hfsutils we will `bless' the root directory of the bootstrap
733 filesystem so OF should be able to find and boot the system
734 without reconfiguration.
736 * mkofboot/ybin (checkconf): Add validation for the new `bless'
737 option. Also add check that the wrapper, if defined, exists and we
738 have permission to it.
740 2000-01-04 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
744 * ybin (util_install): Quote the filetype/creator arguments to
745 hattrib to prevent the shell from interpreting any meta-characters
746 in some cases. Also no longer try and set metadata on wrapper if
749 * mkofboot: When creating hfs or dos filesystems give them volume
750 label of "bootstrap".
752 2000-01-03 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
756 * mkofboot: added -w switch to grep when checking if a filesystem
757 is already mounted to prevent erroneous positive matches.
759 * ybin (util_install): Add check to make sure that the target
760 device is not mounted as a filesystem before mucking with it.
764 2000-01-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>