1 2002-9-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
6 - Add German translation of yaboot-howto.
7 - Small updates to yaboot-howto.
8 - No longer tell people to send bugs to benh in yabootconfig(8).
11 - Fix file search so IBM CHRP will work if there is more than
12 one type 0x83 partition.
13 - Fix possible reiserfs symlink resolution failure.
16 - Fix corner case /etc/fstab parsing failure. (Debian bug#156742).
18 * Small build system modifications (mostly to accommodate the use of
19 the arch revision control system.
21 * yaboot now includes two changelogs: "ChangeLog" which is a
22 detailed automatically generated list of changes, and "changelog"
23 (this file) which is a hand written understandable summary of
24 changes between releases.
26 2001-12-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
30 * The "IBM needs to test prereleases" release.
33 - New IGNORE^H^H^H^H^H^HREADME, thanks to Chris Tillman for
34 cleaning up the pile of cruft that this thing was.
35 - yabootconfig man page was missing --kernel-args from SYNOPSIS.
36 - Include README.rs6000 in the binary dist.
39 - Automatically use fstype=raw on IBM CHRP, it no longer needs
40 to be explicitly set in /etc/yaboot.conf.
41 - Deprecate ybin's yaboot.conf auto-generation, use yabootconfig
45 - Fix IBM CHRP support.
46 - Fix device path parsing to support devices containing a comma,
47 but not including a filename.
48 - Add support for zImage.initrd (Peter Bergner).
49 - help output no longer claims device=NULL if yaboot.conf does not define it.
50 - Make password prompting a bit nicer looking.
51 - Short penalty delay on incorrect passwords.
53 2001-10-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
57 * Add yaboot-howto, Thanks to Chris Tillman.
60 - XFS fixes for large partitions (Brendan O'Dea).
61 - Upgrade libext2fs to 1.25, this adds full ext3 support to yaboot.
62 - Reiserfs fixes (Jeff Mahoney).
63 - Implement the message= configuration option (see yaboot.conf man page).
65 2001-10-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
69 * ybin: Correct a verbosity message.
72 - Add SGI XFS filesystem support.
73 - Rewrite OpenFirmware device path parsing code. This fixes
74 many bugs and inconsistencies in yaboot's file loading.
75 - Fix OpenFirmware filesystem support to automatically convert
76 path separator from / to \. CDROM authors no longer need to use
77 kludges like image=\\install\\powermac\\vmlinux.
78 - Fix kernel loading on some systems.
79 - Allow for getting files from tftp server that does not run a
81 - Fix netboot when using the `n' key.
82 - Fix a great deal of incorrect format strings which could cause
84 - Fix all filesystems to properly return error conditions, and
85 report those error conditions (instead of just saying `image not
87 - Make configuration file open error consistent with other file
89 - Add `help' command to yaboot which prints out basic usage information.
90 - Add non-fatal warning when bootstrap partition has wrong type (pmac only).
91 - Minor code rearrangement.
92 - General cruft removal and code cleanup.
94 * Makefile cleanup, make filesystems configurable.
96 2001-09-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
100 * Add --debug option to yabootconfig
102 * Fix BSD booting support somewhat. The bsd= option's semantics
103 have changed, it must now be set to the BSD root partition. ybin
104 will now install /usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofwboot onto the bootstrap
105 partition when bsd= is present in /etc/yaboot.conf. The dual boot
106 menu will then execute "ofwboot <bsd_root_part>,/bsd" this means
107 the bsd kernel must be at /bsd on the BSD root partition.
109 2001-09-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
113 * Fix Makefile thinko where make install failed if
114 /etc/yaboot.conf already existed.
116 2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
120 * Don't include /etc/yaboot.conf in binary dist, instead put the
121 example in /usr/local/share/doc. This way extracting the tarball
122 from / won't blow away existing configs.
124 * Move strip commands from install target to strip target, install
125 now depends on strip.
127 2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
131 * Merging of ybin and yaboot source trees, this is now the
132 official upstream yaboot/ybin source tree.
135 - Various ppc64 & chrp fixes by Peter Bergner, fix fdisk partition
137 - Fix netboot (was broken by reiserfs patch)
139 2001-08-26 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
143 * ofpath became broken on non-scsi systems due to quoting fix.
145 2001-08-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
149 * Fix broken quoting uncovered by debian's current /bin/ash.
151 2001-08-06 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
155 * ofboot: remove <OS-VOLUME-NAME> tag as it was causing the
156 OpenFirmware multibooter to crash.
158 * mkofboot: zero first 800K of bootstrap partition before creating
163 - Supports using an md5 hash as well as plaintext password. (me)
164 - Fix again system.map loading. That also fix an old pending bug
165 we had where yaboot could pass random values for system.map,
166 causing the kernel to mark random pages reserved. (BenH)
167 - IBM CHRP fixes. (Peter Bergner)
168 - Add reiserfs support (Jeff Mahoney)
170 2001-06-30 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
176 - Add support for IBM CHRP, thanks to Marco d'Itri for testing.
177 - Use real wc if available, this speeds up ofpath slightly for scsi.
178 - Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
181 - If installing on IBM CHRP run addnote on yaboot binary before installing.
182 - Reword some error/verbose messages
183 - Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
185 2001-06-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
190 - Now works with braindamaged versions of pdisk.
191 - Add --kernel-args switch which allows boot-floppies to easily
192 add an append= line if needed.
194 2001-06-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
198 * Fix test for strict posix/SUS echo behavior.
200 * Check for printf built into the shell.
202 * yabootconfig: check for and attempt to deal with cross device symlinks.
204 2001-05-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
208 * Added yabootconfig, a script to build a valid /etc/yaboot.conf
211 - Detect IBM CHRP hardware and disable nvram update automatically
212 - Automatically run yabootconfig if /etc/yaboot.conf is missing
213 - Check for PATH_PREFIX environment variable and add all bin and
214 sbin directories from under it to PATH. This is for boot-floppies.
215 - Add bsd= to list of multiboot options.
217 * ofboot: bump maximum number of OSes to 8.
220 - No longer report bogus paths for non-existent scsi devices.
221 - Fix bug where garbage characters were mixed with the
222 OpenFirmware device path.
223 - Fix broken Wallstreet PowerBook support.
224 - Add support for silly devfs naming convention, Thanks to Tom Rini.
226 2001-05-06 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
231 - Hopefully fix random and rare booting problem when chainloading
232 other OSes. Thanks to Segher Boessenkool for the fix.
233 - Add volume name which shows up in the OpenFirmware multiboot
235 - It is now possible to replace the badge icon for the multiboot
236 screen, see examples/README.mbicon.
240 - Includes my previous 1.1.1-eb3 patches for password protection and single-key.
242 * Various spelling errors and clarifications to man pages. Thanks to sword.
244 2001-04-26 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
250 - Add support for Performa 6400_200, PowerMac 4400, and the clones.
251 - Removed `No such file or directory' errors when system has no
255 - If delay= is not set use value of timeout= (converted to
257 - Removed command line options --type, --creator, and long
258 obsolete and deprecated --conffile. The config file options
259 hfstype and hfscreator are still there.
260 - Removed long obsolete and deprecated bootconf= config option.
261 - Removed some old now unneeded debug cruft.
264 - Include version 1.1.1-eb3, this includes the following changes
265 - Adds password protection capabilities.
266 - Add `single-key' option from silo.
269 - Rewrote the yaboot.conf man page, now derived from silo.conf(5)
271 2001-03-22 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
276 - Fix a few bugs that occured when magicboot= was not used.
277 - Add basic support for IBM style bootstrap partitions. These
278 partitions have yaboot dded directly to them. See the yaboot.conf
279 man page regarding fstype for more info, also
280 examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k.
281 - Don't require that ofpath be installed if its not needed.
284 - Added examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k
285 - Man page updates for IBM support.
287 2001-02-19 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
292 - Quiet shell error when run on non-PowerMac (but still
294 - Properly recognize more OldWorld PowerMac G3s.
295 - Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
296 - Require that /proc be mounted.
299 - Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
300 - Make the `not bootable on OldWorld' warning very loud and
302 - Change PATH to make /usr/local the last component instead of
304 - Make the text/background color in the boot menu configurable,
305 see the yaboot.conf(5) man page for details.
306 - Change default foreground color to white per yaboot 1.0.
307 - Remove support for obsolete /etc/ybin.conf.
310 - Clarified the `partition=' variable in the yaboot.conf man page
311 and correct an error in the example in that man page.
312 - Added more comments to included yaboot.conf examples.
315 - Include version 1.1.1
316 - Includes color support
318 2000-11-18 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
322 * ybin: add `brokenosx' option, when used with macosx= ybin makes
323 the MacOSX menu entry execute \System\Library\CoreServices\BootX
324 directly instead of using \\:tbxi. This is necessary for
325 people who insist on installing OSX on HFS+ instead of UFS, since
326 MacOS deblesses HFS+ OSX partitions.
328 2000-10-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
330 * Version 0.29 (the brown paper bag release)
332 * The yaboot.conf man page was broken.
334 * While were at it, include yaboot 0.9 binary (compiled -Os,
337 2000-10-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
341 * ybin: Add mntpoint= option, this allows ybin to install the
342 bootstrap into an already mounted filesystem. This is NOT
343 recommended unless you know what your doing.
345 * ybin: fixed generation of ofboot.b so it will work with nobless
348 2000-10-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
352 * ofboot: fixed problem where text was not visible on some newer iMacs.
354 * ybin: Now warn the user when they are using ybin on an OldWorld
355 PowerMac. (it will still work since its possible to make newworld
356 bootable disks on an OldWorld mac)
358 * ofpath: Now works on oldworld macs under 2.4 kernels.
360 * Added check for packaged versions of ybin to the Makefile and
361 warn user about them.
363 2000-09-23 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
367 * ofboot: completely rewrote the generator script, it is now more
368 extendable and supports more menu options. More thanks to iNOUE
369 Koich! for the continuing help on OpenFirmware issues!!
371 * ybin: added options for mulitboot menu: now can create a menu
372 with options for GNU/Linux, MacOS, MacOSX, Darwin, and booting off
373 a CDROM, from the network, and even directly into an OpenFirmware
376 * ybin: some errors were sent to stdout instead of stderr, fixed.
378 * ofpath: refuse to run on anything but GNU/Linux. (for now anyway)
380 2000-09-18 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
384 * ofboot: now changes the background color to black and the text
385 color to cyan like yaboot. Thanks to again to iNOUE Koich!
387 2000-09-16 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
391 * ofboot: many bugs in the Forth code fixed. code should now be
392 compliant to the OpenFirmware spec. Also add CD boot menu option.
393 (add enablecdboot to /etc/yaboot.conf) Thanks to iNOUE Koich! for
396 2000-09-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
400 * ybin: now hard code the target filename for ofboot, its always
401 installed as ofboot.b on the bootstrap partition. This eliminates
402 ambiguity when someone tries a different script with different name.
404 * ybin: all debugging output goes to stderr now.
406 2000-09-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
410 * ofboot.b renamed to ofboot. (.b means boot block which this is not)
412 * yaboot and ofboot are now installed in /usr/local/lib/yaboot/
413 instead of /boot, since these files are never directly accessed by
414 the firmware it is not really appropriate to keep them in /boot.
415 make install will create backwords compatibility symlinks when
416 installing over an older version of ybin so nothing should break.
417 IMPORTANT: you should run mkofboot on a dedicated bootstrap
418 partition to purge old filenames.
420 * Man pages updated to reflect new file locations. Also include a
421 patch to change the paths to /usr/lib/yaboot for Debian and redhat
424 * ybin: now checks two places for a default value for install=
425 /usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot, /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot.
427 2000-09-02 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
431 * ybin: fixed nvram update so it uses a real filename instead of
432 \\:tbxi when nobless is set in /etc/yaboot.conf. (\\: means find
433 file in blessed directory).
435 * ofpath: more oldworld machines supported. Now supports 7200,
436 7300, 8600, 9500, Gossamer G3, PowerBook 1998, PowerBook 3400 (and
439 2000-08-31 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
443 * ybin: check for Newworld compatible nvsetenv and if found will
444 automatically update the OpenFirmware boot-device variable in
447 * ofpath: support some oldworld machines. (this does not mean
448 ybin/yaboot supports oldworld). Also silence a harmless error on
449 machines lacking a CDROM.
451 * ofboot.b: added more machines to <COMPATIBLE>
453 2000-08-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
457 * Added PowerMac3,2 and PowerMac3,3 to ofboot.b scripts. Fixes
460 2000-08-22 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
464 * ofboot.b: changed the yaboot boot commands to boot yaboot by
465 filename rather then file type. Booting by file type did not work
466 reliably on all machines.
468 * ybin: hard code the target filename for yaboot, regardless of
469 the source filename (from install=) the target filename on the
470 bootstrap partition will always be "yaboot.b".
472 * Added ofpath utility, this is a rewrite of the show_of_path.sh
473 utility written by Olaf Hering. Ofpath works with /bin/ash and on
474 stripped down systems such as the Debian boot floppies. Also
475 wrote a small man page for this utility.
477 * ybin: automatically use ofpath to find the OpenFirmware device
478 path when ofpath= is not defined in /etc/yaboot.conf. Ybin will
479 also use ofpath when macos= or macosx= are set to unix device
480 nodes (ie /dev/hda11), these options can still be set to
481 OpenFirmware paths as well.
483 * Makefile: minor cleanup, added installation of ofpath
484 utility/man page as well as a deinstall rule.
486 2000-08-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
490 * Yaboot 0.7 binary included.
492 * ybin: fix bug where ybin would fail if the bootstrap files
493 included an "_" in the filename. (actually its a workaround for
494 hfsutils brain-damage)
496 * ofboot.b: completely rewritten. Now includes shell script code
497 to allow ybin to configure it based on config options in
498 /etc/yaboot.conf instead of requiring the user to edit it
499 themselves. Additionally this new script will display a REAL boot
500 menu when dual booting is configured. It is capable of dual or
501 tri booting GNU/Linux (yaboot), MacOS 8.*/9.* and MacOSX. This
502 new ofboot.b script should *NOT* be edited by the user, and thus
503 should NOT be marked as a conffile in Debian and redhat packages.
504 These packages should now install ofboot.b in /boot instead of
505 /etc since it is no longer a config file. WARNING: The Forth code
506 in this script has not been tested on all machines and may not be
507 universally compatible. Thanks to Chris Emerson for writing the
510 * yaboot.conf: new options: ofboot= macos= macosx= delay=
511 defaultos=. See the yaboot.conf man page for details.
513 * Now include a Makefile to handle installation, only make install
514 is defined. Removed install-sh.
516 * mkofboot is now distributed and installed as a symlink instead
521 2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
525 * menu_ofboot.b: fixed bug where the yaboot line was missing the
526 boot command, this prevented it from booting yaboot.
528 2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
532 * Merge quik's bootstrap(8) man page with ybin's ofboot(8) man
533 page and rename it back to bootstrap(8). This also solves the
534 conflict with quik. In a more useful way IMO.
536 2000-04-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
540 * Ship man pages uncompressed, gzip them in install-sh instead,
541 this allows for easier patching by debian maintainers if need be.
543 * Rename bootstrap(8) man page to ofboot(8) so ybin does not
546 2000-04-23 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
550 * Rewrote the config file parsing yet again to remove dependencies
551 on tr, and awk. This allows ybin to function on minimal systems
552 such as boot/rescue floppies. This also pretty much solves the
553 slowness problem. Thanks to Daniel Jacobwitz for the help.
555 * Made changes to remove dependencies on basename and wc. Again
556 this is to allow ybin to work on boot floppies.
558 * Changed all calls to grep to stop using GNU extensions, this is
559 so ybin will work properly with the minimal version of grep
562 * Added signal handling so ybin/mkofboot will cleanup after
563 themselves if killed with signals 1 2 3 or 15.
565 * Added OS Badge icons to the ofboot.b scripts. On G4 machines
566 you can hold down the option key and get a graphical boot selector
567 with one button for each bootable partition, the button with the
568 penguin icon is the bootstrap partition. Thanks to Nicholas
569 Humfrey for creating the Badge icon.
571 * Minor updates to the man pages.
573 2000-04-19 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
577 * Now include yaboot binary in ybin distribution.
579 * Include a install-sh script to install everything.
581 * Use of the separate ybin.conf file is deprecated. Use
582 /etc/yaboot.conf instead.
584 * Removed the so called kludge options, without being able to
585 bless the root directory they were just useless bloat.
587 * Removed useless --readonly option, it was already default (as it
590 * Deprecated bootconf options since the yaboot.conf is the same
591 config ybin uses. (it is still there and works but that may change)
593 * Changed configuration file format to be more like quik/lilo:
594 bootfile= is now install= (--bootfile is now --install), wrapper=
595 is now magicboot=, usemount, protect, and hide are now just a
596 keyword options, if they are present in the configuration file
597 they are turned on, if they are not present they are turned off.
598 bless= is now the nobless keyword option, since bless is default
599 this one changed names.
601 * ybin: no longer need to specify -C /dev/null if you don't have a
602 configuration file in /etc/. If this is the case ybin will generate
603 a generic yaboot.conf to install on the bootstrap partition.
605 * More changes to the configuration parsing to improve speed, the
606 format change also helped the speed problem.
608 * Added man pages for ybin, mkofboot, yaboot, yaboot.conf and
611 * More general fixes/cleanup/tweaks.
613 2000-03-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
617 * Added command line options to both scripts, try --help. This
618 makes the ybin.conf file optional if you wish (-C /dev/null)
620 * Changed the way the config file is parsed, no longer source it
621 with the shell, this allows ybin.conf to be merged with
622 yaboot.conf at which point yaboot can live with unknown options in
625 * Use /etc/ybin.conf if it exists, if not use /etc/yaboot.conf for
628 * Merged ybin and mkofboot into one script, mkofboot shared 90% of
629 of its code with ybin anyway and this will make them much easier
630 to maintain. mkofboot is now a hard link to ybin (or a symlink if
631 you prefer, both will work)
633 * Added an experimental feature to generate a yaboot.conf on the
634 fly based on command line options. The defaults should be
635 workable on a Debian system with an internal ATA disk, with the
636 root partition being the 3rd on the disk. Depends on mktemp for
637 creating the temporary file, Debian's mktemp is secure against
638 race conditions, use with caution if your distribution lacks a
639 secure mktemp utility. This option is activated with -c auto.
641 * No longer depends on bash. Works with Debian's
642 /bin/ash. Interpreter is now set to /bin/sh.
644 * Assorted cleanup, minor bug fixes.
646 * Added example yaboot.conf.
648 2000-02-04 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
652 * Added a simple multi-boot menu written by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.
654 2000-01-17 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
658 * mkofboot was still broken. :-(
661 2000-01-14 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
665 * Added a basic CHRP script ofboot.b to work around the problem of
666 OF refusing to load `tbxi' files unless they contain a CHRP boot
667 header. See README.ofboot.b for details.
669 * Updated default ybin.conf to install ofboot.b by default.
671 2000-01-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
675 * mkofboot: Check for hformat was broken.
677 2000-01-12 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
681 * mkofboot: Fixed problem where it was insisting that mkdosfs be
682 present even when using hfs filesystems if usemount=yes.
684 * mkofboot: Added proper checks for hformat or mkdosfs.
686 2000-01-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
690 * First public release.
692 * Add TODO and BUGS files.
694 * mkofboot: Check to see if usemount=yes, and if so make sure we
695 are root before proceeding to erase the partition.
697 * ybin: Removed useless echo line.
699 2000-01-05 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
703 * ybin (util_install): Fully support OF `wrappers' now: if a
704 wrapper is defined in the configuration file then the wrapper is
705 given the HFS file type specified instead of the bootfile, the
706 bootfile's type is set to "boot".
708 * ybin: New configuration option `bless' when yes and are using
709 hfsutils we will `bless' the root directory of the bootstrap
710 filesystem so OF should be able to find and boot the system
711 without reconfiguration.
713 * mkofboot/ybin (checkconf): Add validation for the new `bless'
714 option. Also add check that the wrapper, if defined, exists and we
715 have permission to it.
717 2000-01-04 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
721 * ybin (util_install): Quote the filetype/creator arguments to
722 hattrib to prevent the shell from interpreting any meta-characters
723 in some cases. Also no longer try and set metadata on wrapper if
726 * mkofboot: When creating hfs or dos filesystems give them volume
727 label of "bootstrap".
729 2000-01-03 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
733 * mkofboot: added -w switch to grep when checking if a filesystem
734 is already mounted to prevent erroneous positive matches.
736 * ybin (util_install): Add check to make sure that the target
737 device is not mounted as a filesystem before mucking with it.
741 2000-01-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>