1 2001-11-21 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
5 * The "IBM needs to test prereleases" release.
7 * New IGNORE^H^H^H^H^H^HREADME, thanks to Chris Tillman for
8 cleaning up the pile of cruft that this thing was.
11 - Automatically use fstype=raw on IBM CHRP, it no longer needs
12 to be explicitly set in /etc/yaboot.conf.
13 - Deprecate ybin's yaboot.conf auto-generation, use yabootconfig
17 - Fix device path parsing to support devices containing a comma,
18 but not including a filename.
19 - Fix IBM CHRP support.
20 - Add support for zImage.initrd (Peter Bergner).
22 2001-10-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
26 * Add yaboot-howto, Thanks to Chris Tillman.
29 - XFS fixes for large partitions (Brendan O'Dea).
30 - Upgrade libext2fs to 1.25, this adds full ext3 support to yaboot.
31 - Reiserfs fixes (Jeff Mahoney).
32 - Implement the message= configuration option (see yaboot.conf man page).
34 2001-10-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
38 * ybin: Correct a verbosity message.
41 - Add SGI XFS filesystem support.
42 - Rewrite OpenFirmware device path parsing code. This fixes
43 many bugs and inconsistencies in yaboot's file loading.
44 - Fix OpenFirmware filesystem support to automatically convert
45 path separator from / to \. CDROM authors no longer need to use
46 kludges like image=\\install\\powermac\\vmlinux.
47 - Fix kernel loading on some systems.
48 - Allow for getting files from tftp server that does not run a
50 - Fix netboot when using the `n' key.
51 - Fix a great deal of incorrect format strings which could cause
53 - Fix all filesystems to properly return error conditions, and
54 report those error conditions (instead of just saying `image not
56 - Make configuration file open error consistent with other file
58 - Add `help' command to yaboot which prints out basic usage information.
59 - Add non-fatal warning when bootstrap partition has wrong type (pmac only).
60 - Minor code rearrangement.
61 - General cruft removal and code cleanup.
63 * Makefile cleanup, make filesystems configurable.
65 2001-09-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
69 * Add --debug option to yabootconfig
71 * Fix BSD booting support somewhat. The bsd= option's semantics
72 have changed, it must now be set to the BSD root partition. ybin
73 will now install /usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofwboot onto the bootstrap
74 partition when bsd= is present in /etc/yaboot.conf. The dual boot
75 menu will then execute "ofwboot <bsd_root_part>,/bsd" this means
76 the bsd kernel must be at /bsd on the BSD root partition.
78 2001-09-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
82 * Fix Makefile thinko where make install failed if
83 /etc/yaboot.conf already existed.
85 2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
89 * Don't include /etc/yaboot.conf in binary dist, instead put the
90 example in /usr/local/share/doc. This way extracting the tarball
91 from / won't blow away existing configs.
93 * Move strip commands from install target to strip target, install
96 2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
100 * Merging of ybin and yaboot source trees, this is now the
101 official upstream yaboot/ybin source tree.
104 - Various ppc64 & chrp fixes by Peter Bergner, fix fdisk partition
106 - Fix netboot (was broken by reiserfs patch)
108 2001-08-26 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
112 * ofpath became broken on non-scsi systems due to quoting fix.
114 2001-08-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
118 * Fix broken quoting uncovered by debian's current /bin/ash.
120 2001-08-06 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
124 * ofboot: remove <OS-VOLUME-NAME> tag as it was causing the
125 OpenFirmware multibooter to crash.
127 * mkofboot: zero first 800K of bootstrap partition before creating
132 - Supports using an md5 hash as well as plaintext password. (me)
133 - Fix again system.map loading. That also fix an old pending bug
134 we had where yaboot could pass random values for system.map,
135 causing the kernel to mark random pages reserved. (BenH)
136 - IBM CHRP fixes. (Peter Bergner)
137 - Add reiserfs support (Jeff Mahoney)
139 2001-06-30 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
145 - Add support for IBM CHRP, thanks to Marco d'Itri for testing.
146 - Use real wc if available, this speeds up ofpath slightly for scsi.
147 - Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
150 - If installing on IBM CHRP run addnote on yaboot binary before installing.
151 - Reword some error/verbose messages
152 - Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
154 2001-06-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
159 - Now works with braindamaged versions of pdisk.
160 - Add --kernel-args switch which allows boot-floppies to easily
161 add an append= line if needed.
163 2001-06-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
167 * Fix test for strict posix/SUS echo behavior.
169 * Check for printf built into the shell.
171 * yabootconfig: check for and attempt to deal with cross device symlinks.
173 2001-05-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
177 * Added yabootconfig, a script to build a valid /etc/yaboot.conf
180 - Detect IBM CHRP hardware and disable nvram update automatically
181 - Automatically run yabootconfig if /etc/yaboot.conf is missing
182 - Check for PATH_PREFIX environment variable and add all bin and
183 sbin directories from under it to PATH. This is for boot-floppies.
184 - Add bsd= to list of multiboot options.
186 * ofboot: bump maximum number of OSes to 8.
189 - No longer report bogus paths for non-existent scsi devices.
190 - Fix bug where garbage characters were mixed with the
191 OpenFirmware device path.
192 - Fix broken Wallstreet PowerBook support.
193 - Add support for silly devfs naming convention, Thanks to Tom Rini.
195 2001-05-06 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
200 - Hopefully fix random and rare booting problem when chainloading
201 other OSes. Thanks to Segher Boessenkool for the fix.
202 - Add volume name which shows up in the OpenFirmware multiboot
204 - It is now possible to replace the badge icon for the multiboot
205 screen, see examples/README.mbicon.
209 - Includes my previous 1.1.1-eb3 patches for password protection and single-key.
211 * Various spelling errors and clarifications to man pages. Thanks to sword.
213 2001-04-26 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
219 - Add support for Performa 6400_200, PowerMac 4400, and the clones.
220 - Removed `No such file or directory' errors when system has no
224 - If delay= is not set use value of timeout= (converted to
226 - Removed command line options --type, --creator, and long
227 obsolete and deprecated --conffile. The config file options
228 hfstype and hfscreator are still there.
229 - Removed long obsolete and deprecated bootconf= config option.
230 - Removed some old now unneeded debug cruft.
233 - Include version 1.1.1-eb3, this includes the following changes
234 - Adds password protection capabilities.
235 - Add `single-key' option from silo.
238 - Rewrote the yaboot.conf man page, now derived from silo.conf(5)
240 2001-03-22 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
245 - Fix a few bugs that occured when magicboot= was not used.
246 - Add basic support for IBM style bootstrap partitions. These
247 partitions have yaboot dded directly to them. See the yaboot.conf
248 man page regarding fstype for more info, also
249 examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k.
250 - Don't require that ofpath be installed if its not needed.
253 - Added examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k
254 - Man page updates for IBM support.
256 2001-02-19 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
261 - Quiet shell error when run on non-PowerMac (but still
263 - Properly recognize more OldWorld PowerMac G3s.
264 - Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
265 - Require that /proc be mounted.
268 - Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
269 - Make the `not bootable on OldWorld' warning very loud and
271 - Change PATH to make /usr/local the last component instead of
273 - Make the text/background color in the boot menu configurable,
274 see the yaboot.conf(5) man page for details.
275 - Change default foreground color to white per yaboot 1.0.
276 - Remove support for obsolete /etc/ybin.conf.
279 - Clarified the `partition=' variable in the yaboot.conf man page
280 and correct an error in the example in that man page.
281 - Added more comments to included yaboot.conf examples.
284 - Include version 1.1.1
285 - Includes color support
287 2000-11-18 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
291 * ybin: add `brokenosx' option, when used with macosx= ybin makes
292 the MacOSX menu entry execute \System\Library\CoreServices\BootX
293 directly instead of using \\:tbxi. This is necessary for
294 people who insist on installing OSX on HFS+ instead of UFS, since
295 MacOS deblesses HFS+ OSX partitions.
297 2000-10-28 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
299 * Version 0.29 (the brown paper bag release)
301 * The yaboot.conf man page was broken.
303 * While were at it, include yaboot 0.9 binary (compiled -Os,
306 2000-10-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
310 * ybin: Add mntpoint= option, this allows ybin to install the
311 bootstrap into an already mounted filesystem. This is NOT
312 recommended unless you know what your doing.
314 * ybin: fixed generation of ofboot.b so it will work with nobless
317 2000-10-20 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
321 * ofboot: fixed problem where text was not visible on some newer iMacs.
323 * ybin: Now warn the user when they are using ybin on an OldWorld
324 PowerMac. (it will still work since its possible to make newworld
325 bootable disks on an OldWorld mac)
327 * ofpath: Now works on oldworld macs under 2.4 kernels.
329 * Added check for packaged versions of ybin to the Makefile and
330 warn user about them.
332 2000-09-23 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
336 * ofboot: completely rewrote the generator script, it is now more
337 extendable and supports more menu options. More thanks to iNOUE
338 Koich! for the continuing help on OpenFirmware issues!!
340 * ybin: added options for mulitboot menu: now can create a menu
341 with options for GNU/Linux, MacOS, MacOSX, Darwin, and booting off
342 a CDROM, from the network, and even directly into an OpenFirmware
345 * ybin: some errors were sent to stdout instead of stderr, fixed.
347 * ofpath: refuse to run on anything but GNU/Linux. (for now anyway)
349 2000-09-18 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
353 * ofboot: now changes the background color to black and the text
354 color to cyan like yaboot. Thanks to again to iNOUE Koich!
356 2000-09-16 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
360 * ofboot: many bugs in the Forth code fixed. code should now be
361 compliant to the OpenFirmware spec. Also add CD boot menu option.
362 (add enablecdboot to /etc/yaboot.conf) Thanks to iNOUE Koich! for
365 2000-09-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
369 * ybin: now hard code the target filename for ofboot, its always
370 installed as ofboot.b on the bootstrap partition. This eliminates
371 ambiguity when someone tries a different script with different name.
373 * ybin: all debugging output goes to stderr now.
375 2000-09-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
379 * ofboot.b renamed to ofboot. (.b means boot block which this is not)
381 * yaboot and ofboot are now installed in /usr/local/lib/yaboot/
382 instead of /boot, since these files are never directly accessed by
383 the firmware it is not really appropriate to keep them in /boot.
384 make install will create backwords compatibility symlinks when
385 installing over an older version of ybin so nothing should break.
386 IMPORTANT: you should run mkofboot on a dedicated bootstrap
387 partition to purge old filenames.
389 * Man pages updated to reflect new file locations. Also include a
390 patch to change the paths to /usr/lib/yaboot for Debian and redhat
393 * ybin: now checks two places for a default value for install=
394 /usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot, /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot.
396 2000-09-02 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
400 * ybin: fixed nvram update so it uses a real filename instead of
401 \\:tbxi when nobless is set in /etc/yaboot.conf. (\\: means find
402 file in blessed directory).
404 * ofpath: more oldworld machines supported. Now supports 7200,
405 7300, 8600, 9500, Gossamer G3, PowerBook 1998, PowerBook 3400 (and
408 2000-08-31 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
412 * ybin: check for Newworld compatible nvsetenv and if found will
413 automatically update the OpenFirmware boot-device variable in
416 * ofpath: support some oldworld machines. (this does not mean
417 ybin/yaboot supports oldworld). Also silence a harmless error on
418 machines lacking a CDROM.
420 * ofboot.b: added more machines to <COMPATIBLE>
422 2000-08-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
426 * Added PowerMac3,2 and PowerMac3,3 to ofboot.b scripts. Fixes
429 2000-08-22 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
433 * ofboot.b: changed the yaboot boot commands to boot yaboot by
434 filename rather then file type. Booting by file type did not work
435 reliably on all machines.
437 * ybin: hard code the target filename for yaboot, regardless of
438 the source filename (from install=) the target filename on the
439 bootstrap partition will always be "yaboot.b".
441 * Added ofpath utility, this is a rewrite of the show_of_path.sh
442 utility written by Olaf Hering. Ofpath works with /bin/ash and on
443 stripped down systems such as the Debian boot floppies. Also
444 wrote a small man page for this utility.
446 * ybin: automatically use ofpath to find the OpenFirmware device
447 path when ofpath= is not defined in /etc/yaboot.conf. Ybin will
448 also use ofpath when macos= or macosx= are set to unix device
449 nodes (ie /dev/hda11), these options can still be set to
450 OpenFirmware paths as well.
452 * Makefile: minor cleanup, added installation of ofpath
453 utility/man page as well as a deinstall rule.
455 2000-08-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
459 * Yaboot 0.7 binary included.
461 * ybin: fix bug where ybin would fail if the bootstrap files
462 included an "_" in the filename. (actually its a workaround for
463 hfsutils brain-damage)
465 * ofboot.b: completely rewritten. Now includes shell script code
466 to allow ybin to configure it based on config options in
467 /etc/yaboot.conf instead of requiring the user to edit it
468 themselves. Additionally this new script will display a REAL boot
469 menu when dual booting is configured. It is capable of dual or
470 tri booting GNU/Linux (yaboot), MacOS 8.*/9.* and MacOSX. This
471 new ofboot.b script should *NOT* be edited by the user, and thus
472 should NOT be marked as a conffile in Debian and redhat packages.
473 These packages should now install ofboot.b in /boot instead of
474 /etc since it is no longer a config file. WARNING: The Forth code
475 in this script has not been tested on all machines and may not be
476 universally compatible. Thanks to Chris Emerson for writing the
479 * yaboot.conf: new options: ofboot= macos= macosx= delay=
480 defaultos=. See the yaboot.conf man page for details.
482 * Now include a Makefile to handle installation, only make install
483 is defined. Removed install-sh.
485 * mkofboot is now distributed and installed as a symlink instead
490 2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
494 * menu_ofboot.b: fixed bug where the yaboot line was missing the
495 boot command, this prevented it from booting yaboot.
497 2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
501 * Merge quik's bootstrap(8) man page with ybin's ofboot(8) man
502 page and rename it back to bootstrap(8). This also solves the
503 conflict with quik. In a more useful way IMO.
505 2000-04-24 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
509 * Ship man pages uncompressed, gzip them in install-sh instead,
510 this allows for easier patching by debian maintainers if need be.
512 * Rename bootstrap(8) man page to ofboot(8) so ybin does not
515 2000-04-23 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
519 * Rewrote the config file parsing yet again to remove dependencies
520 on tr, and awk. This allows ybin to function on minimal systems
521 such as boot/rescue floppies. This also pretty much solves the
522 slowness problem. Thanks to Daniel Jacobwitz for the help.
524 * Made changes to remove dependencies on basename and wc. Again
525 this is to allow ybin to work on boot floppies.
527 * Changed all calls to grep to stop using GNU extensions, this is
528 so ybin will work properly with the minimal version of grep
531 * Added signal handling so ybin/mkofboot will cleanup after
532 themselves if killed with signals 1 2 3 or 15.
534 * Added OS Badge icons to the ofboot.b scripts. On G4 machines
535 you can hold down the option key and get a graphical boot selector
536 with one button for each bootable partition, the button with the
537 penguin icon is the bootstrap partition. Thanks to Nicholas
538 Humfrey for creating the Badge icon.
540 * Minor updates to the man pages.
542 2000-04-19 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
546 * Now include yaboot binary in ybin distribution.
548 * Include a install-sh script to install everything.
550 * Use of the separate ybin.conf file is deprecated. Use
551 /etc/yaboot.conf instead.
553 * Removed the so called kludge options, without being able to
554 bless the root directory they were just useless bloat.
556 * Removed useless --readonly option, it was already default (as it
559 * Deprecated bootconf options since the yaboot.conf is the same
560 config ybin uses. (it is still there and works but that may change)
562 * Changed configuration file format to be more like quik/lilo:
563 bootfile= is now install= (--bootfile is now --install), wrapper=
564 is now magicboot=, usemount, protect, and hide are now just a
565 keyword options, if they are present in the configuration file
566 they are turned on, if they are not present they are turned off.
567 bless= is now the nobless keyword option, since bless is default
568 this one changed names.
570 * ybin: no longer need to specify -C /dev/null if you don't have a
571 configuration file in /etc/. If this is the case ybin will generate
572 a generic yaboot.conf to install on the bootstrap partition.
574 * More changes to the configuration parsing to improve speed, the
575 format change also helped the speed problem.
577 * Added man pages for ybin, mkofboot, yaboot, yaboot.conf and
580 * More general fixes/cleanup/tweaks.
582 2000-03-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
586 * Added command line options to both scripts, try --help. This
587 makes the ybin.conf file optional if you wish (-C /dev/null)
589 * Changed the way the config file is parsed, no longer source it
590 with the shell, this allows ybin.conf to be merged with
591 yaboot.conf at which point yaboot can live with unknown options in
594 * Use /etc/ybin.conf if it exists, if not use /etc/yaboot.conf for
597 * Merged ybin and mkofboot into one script, mkofboot shared 90% of
598 of its code with ybin anyway and this will make them much easier
599 to maintain. mkofboot is now a hard link to ybin (or a symlink if
600 you prefer, both will work)
602 * Added an experimental feature to generate a yaboot.conf on the
603 fly based on command line options. The defaults should be
604 workable on a Debian system with an internal ATA disk, with the
605 root partition being the 3rd on the disk. Depends on mktemp for
606 creating the temporary file, Debian's mktemp is secure against
607 race conditions, use with caution if your distribution lacks a
608 secure mktemp utility. This option is activated with -c auto.
610 * No longer depends on bash. Works with Debian's
611 /bin/ash. Interpreter is now set to /bin/sh.
613 * Assorted cleanup, minor bug fixes.
615 * Added example yaboot.conf.
617 2000-02-04 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
621 * Added a simple multi-boot menu written by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.
623 2000-01-17 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
627 * mkofboot was still broken. :-(
630 2000-01-14 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
634 * Added a basic CHRP script ofboot.b to work around the problem of
635 OF refusing to load `tbxi' files unless they contain a CHRP boot
636 header. See README.ofboot.b for details.
638 * Updated default ybin.conf to install ofboot.b by default.
640 2000-01-13 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
644 * mkofboot: Check for hformat was broken.
646 2000-01-12 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
650 * mkofboot: Fixed problem where it was insisting that mkdosfs be
651 present even when using hfs filesystems if usemount=yes.
653 * mkofboot: Added proper checks for hformat or mkdosfs.
655 2000-01-09 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
659 * First public release.
661 * Add TODO and BUGS files.
663 * mkofboot: Check to see if usemount=yes, and if so make sure we
664 are root before proceeding to erase the partition.
666 * ybin: Removed useless echo line.
668 2000-01-05 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
672 * ybin (util_install): Fully support OF `wrappers' now: if a
673 wrapper is defined in the configuration file then the wrapper is
674 given the HFS file type specified instead of the bootfile, the
675 bootfile's type is set to "boot".
677 * ybin: New configuration option `bless' when yes and are using
678 hfsutils we will `bless' the root directory of the bootstrap
679 filesystem so OF should be able to find and boot the system
680 without reconfiguration.
682 * mkofboot/ybin (checkconf): Add validation for the new `bless'
683 option. Also add check that the wrapper, if defined, exists and we
684 have permission to it.
686 2000-01-04 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
690 * ybin (util_install): Quote the filetype/creator arguments to
691 hattrib to prevent the shell from interpreting any meta-characters
692 in some cases. Also no longer try and set metadata on wrapper if
695 * mkofboot: When creating hfs or dos filesystems give them volume
696 label of "bootstrap".
698 2000-01-03 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
702 * mkofboot: added -w switch to grep when checking if a filesystem
703 is already mounted to prevent erroneous positive matches.
705 * ybin (util_install): Add check to make sure that the target
706 device is not mounted as a filesystem before mucking with it.
710 2000-01-01 Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>