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2004-07-11 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.13
* ofpath: Fix several errors going to stdout rather then stderr.
* ybin: Detect broken /dev/nvram better.
* yabootconfig:
- Support initrd.
- Support LABEL= and UUID= in /etc/fstab (Colin Watson).
* yaboot: Support ~6MB kernels for tftp (this is maxed out for yaboot1).
2004-04-17 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.12
* ofpath: Support for 2.6 kernels (2.6.3 or later required).
* yaboot-howto: Add caveat regarding OSX UFS filesystems
(Thanks to Brian Sammon, and to Stefan Pfetzing for the German
translation).
2003-11-20 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.11
* Support new Apple G5 PowerMacs.
* ofpath: Bugfix to properly support IDE add-on cards.
2003-02-26 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.10
* ofpath: Apple apparently can't decide whether its called `ata'
or `ide'; fix support for early iMac models.
2003-02-12 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.9
* Mark first stage bootloader as compatible with new MacOS9
incompatible PowerMacs.
* Really fix file search so IBM CHRP will work if there is more than
one type 0x83 partition.
2002-12-09 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.8
* ofpath: Support new Xserve and Windtunnel PowerMacs.
- NOTE: For this to fully work it requires a sufficiently recent
kernel.
* Prefer $PATH_PREFIX/usr/sbin/ofpath if it exists.
* yabootconfig: Add append="video=ofonly" if the running kernel
was booted with it, only if user does not specify --kernel-args.
2002-9-28 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.7
* Documentation:
- Add German translation of yaboot-howto.
- Small updates to yaboot-howto.
- No longer tell people to send bugs to benh in yabootconfig(8).
* yaboot:
- Fix file search so IBM CHRP will work if there is more than
one type 0x83 partition.
- Fix possible reiserfs symlink resolution failure.
* yabootconfig:
- Fix corner case /etc/fstab parsing failure. (Debian bug#156742).
* Small build system modifications (mostly to accommodate the use of
the arch revision control system.
* yaboot now includes two changelogs: "ChangeLog" which is a
detailed automatically generated list of changes, and "changelog"
(this file) which is a hand written understandable summary of
changes between releases.
2001-12-01 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.6
* The "IBM needs to test prereleases" release.
* Documentation:
- New IGNORE^H^H^H^H^H^HREADME, thanks to Chris Tillman for
cleaning up the pile of cruft that this thing was.
- yabootconfig man page was missing --kernel-args from SYNOPSIS.
- Include README.rs6000 in the binary dist.
* ybin:
- Automatically use fstype=raw on IBM CHRP, it no longer needs
to be explicitly set in /etc/yaboot.conf.
- Deprecate ybin's yaboot.conf auto-generation, use yabootconfig
instead.
* yaboot:
- Fix IBM CHRP support.
- Fix device path parsing to support devices containing a comma,
but not including a filename.
- Add support for zImage.initrd (Peter Bergner).
- help output no longer claims device=NULL if yaboot.conf does not define it.
- Make password prompting a bit nicer looking.
- Short penalty delay on incorrect passwords.
2001-10-28 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.5
* Add yaboot-howto, Thanks to Chris Tillman.
* yaboot:
- XFS fixes for large partitions (Brendan O'Dea).
- Upgrade libext2fs to 1.25, this adds full ext3 support to yaboot.
- Reiserfs fixes (Jeff Mahoney).
- Implement the message= configuration option (see yaboot.conf man page).
2001-10-13 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.4
* ybin: Correct a verbosity message.
* yaboot:
- Add SGI XFS filesystem support.
- Rewrite OpenFirmware device path parsing code. This fixes
many bugs and inconsistencies in yaboot's file loading.
- Fix OpenFirmware filesystem support to automatically convert
path separator from / to \. CDROM authors no longer need to use
kludges like image=\\install\\powermac\\vmlinux.
- Fix kernel loading on some systems.
- Allow for getting files from tftp server that does not run a
bootpd/dhcpd.
- Fix netboot when using the `n' key.
- Fix a great deal of incorrect format strings which could cause
yaboot crashes.
- Fix all filesystems to properly return error conditions, and
report those error conditions (instead of just saying `image not
found').
- Make configuration file open error consistent with other file
open errors.
- Add `help' command to yaboot which prints out basic usage information.
- Add non-fatal warning when bootstrap partition has wrong type (pmac only).
- Minor code rearrangement.
- General cruft removal and code cleanup.
* Makefile cleanup, make filesystems configurable.
2001-09-25 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.3
* Add --debug option to yabootconfig
* Fix BSD booting support somewhat. The bsd= option's semantics
have changed, it must now be set to the BSD root partition. ybin
will now install /usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofwboot onto the bootstrap
partition when bsd= is present in /etc/yaboot.conf. The dual boot
menu will then execute "ofwboot <bsd_root_part>,/bsd" this means
the bsd kernel must be at /bsd on the BSD root partition.
2001-09-24 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.2
* Fix Makefile thinko where make install failed if
/etc/yaboot.conf already existed.
2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3.1
* Don't include /etc/yaboot.conf in binary dist, instead put the
example in /usr/local/share/doc. This way extracting the tarball
from / won't blow away existing configs.
* Move strip commands from install target to strip target, install
now depends on strip.
2001-09-20 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.3
* Merging of ybin and yaboot source trees, this is now the
official upstream yaboot/ybin source tree.
* yaboot:
- Various ppc64 & chrp fixes by Peter Bergner, fix fdisk partition
handling.
- Fix netboot (was broken by reiserfs patch)
2001-08-26 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.2.6
* ofpath became broken on non-scsi systems due to quoting fix.
2001-08-20 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.2.5
* Fix broken quoting uncovered by debian's current /bin/ash.
2001-08-06 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.2.4
* ofboot: remove <OS-VOLUME-NAME> tag as it was causing the
OpenFirmware multibooter to crash.
* mkofboot: zero first 800K of bootstrap partition before creating
filesystem.
* yaboot:
- Version 1.2.3
- Supports using an md5 hash as well as plaintext password. (me)
- Fix again system.map loading. That also fix an old pending bug
we had where yaboot could pass random values for system.map,
causing the kernel to mark random pages reserved. (BenH)
- IBM CHRP fixes. (Peter Bergner)
- Add reiserfs support (Jeff Mahoney)
2001-06-30 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.2.3
* ofpath:
- Version 1.0
- Add support for IBM CHRP, thanks to Marco d'Itri for testing.
- Use real wc if available, this speeds up ofpath slightly for scsi.
- Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
* ybin:
- If installing on IBM CHRP run addnote on yaboot binary before installing.
- Reword some error/verbose messages
- Make variables local to their function unless they need to be global.
2001-06-24 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.2.2
* yabootconfig:
- Now works with braindamaged versions of pdisk.
- Add --kernel-args switch which allows boot-floppies to easily
add an append= line if needed.
2001-06-01 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.2.1
* Fix test for strict posix/SUS echo behavior.
* Check for printf built into the shell.
* yabootconfig: check for and attempt to deal with cross device symlinks.
2001-05-28 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.2
* Added yabootconfig, a script to build a valid /etc/yaboot.conf
* ybin:
- Detect IBM CHRP hardware and disable nvram update automatically
- Automatically run yabootconfig if /etc/yaboot.conf is missing
- Check for PATH_PREFIX environment variable and add all bin and
sbin directories from under it to PATH. This is for boot-floppies.
- Add bsd= to list of multiboot options.
* ofboot: bump maximum number of OSes to 8.
* ofpath:
- No longer report bogus paths for non-existent scsi devices.
- Fix bug where garbage characters were mixed with the
OpenFirmware device path.
- Fix broken Wallstreet PowerBook support.
- Add support for silly devfs naming convention, Thanks to Tom Rini.
2001-05-06 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.1.1
* ofboot:
- Hopefully fix random and rare booting problem when chainloading
other OSes. Thanks to Segher Boessenkool for the fix.
- Add volume name which shows up in the OpenFirmware multiboot
screen.
- It is now possible to replace the badge icon for the multiboot
screen, see examples/README.mbicon.
* yaboot:
- Version 1.2.1
- Includes my previous 1.1.1-eb3 patches for password protection and single-key.
* Various spelling errors and clarifications to man pages. Thanks to sword.
2001-04-26 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.1
* ofpath:
- Version 0.8
- Add support for Performa 6400_200, PowerMac 4400, and the clones.
- Removed `No such file or directory' errors when system has no
scsi at all.
* ybin:
- If delay= is not set use value of timeout= (converted to
seconds) instead.
- Removed command line options --type, --creator, and long
obsolete and deprecated --conffile. The config file options
hfstype and hfscreator are still there.
- Removed long obsolete and deprecated bootconf= config option.
- Removed some old now unneeded debug cruft.
* yaboot:
- Include version 1.1.1-eb3, this includes the following changes
- Adds password protection capabilities.
- Add `single-key' option from silo.
* Documentation:
- Rewrote the yaboot.conf man page, now derived from silo.conf(5)
2001-03-22 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 1.0
* ybin:
- Fix a few bugs that occured when magicboot= was not used.
- Add basic support for IBM style bootstrap partitions. These
partitions have yaboot dded directly to them. See the yaboot.conf
man page regarding fstype for more info, also
examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k.
- Don't require that ofpath be installed if its not needed.
* Documentation:
- Added examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k
- Man page updates for IBM support.
2001-02-19 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.31
* ofpath:
- Quiet shell error when run on non-PowerMac (but still
PowerPC) hardware.
- Properly recognize more OldWorld PowerMac G3s.
- Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
- Require that /proc be mounted.
* ybin:
- Fix OldWorld detection for kernels < 2.2.17
- Make the `not bootable on OldWorld' warning very loud and
obnoxious.
- Change PATH to make /usr/local the last component instead of
the first.
- Make the text/background color in the boot menu configurable,
see the yaboot.conf(5) man page for details.
- Change default foreground color to white per yaboot 1.0.
- Remove support for obsolete /etc/ybin.conf.
* Documentation:
- Clarified the `partition=' variable in the yaboot.conf man page
and correct an error in the example in that man page.
- Added more comments to included yaboot.conf examples.
* yaboot:
- Include version 1.1.1
- Includes color support
2000-11-18 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.30
* ybin: add `brokenosx' option, when used with macosx= ybin makes
the MacOSX menu entry execute \System\Library\CoreServices\BootX
directly instead of using \\:tbxi. This is necessary for
people who insist on installing OSX on HFS+ instead of UFS, since
MacOS deblesses HFS+ OSX partitions.
2000-10-28 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.29 (the brown paper bag release)
* The yaboot.conf man page was broken.
* While were at it, include yaboot 0.9 binary (compiled -Os,
stripped)
2000-10-24 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.28
* ybin: Add mntpoint= option, this allows ybin to install the
bootstrap into an already mounted filesystem. This is NOT
recommended unless you know what your doing.
* ybin: fixed generation of ofboot.b so it will work with nobless
and usemount.
2000-10-20 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.27
* ofboot: fixed problem where text was not visible on some newer iMacs.
* ybin: Now warn the user when they are using ybin on an OldWorld
PowerMac. (it will still work since its possible to make newworld
bootable disks on an OldWorld mac)
* ofpath: Now works on oldworld macs under 2.4 kernels.
* Added check for packaged versions of ybin to the Makefile and
warn user about them.
2000-09-23 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.26
* ofboot: completely rewrote the generator script, it is now more
extendable and supports more menu options. More thanks to iNOUE
Koich! for the continuing help on OpenFirmware issues!!
* ybin: added options for mulitboot menu: now can create a menu
with options for GNU/Linux, MacOS, MacOSX, Darwin, and booting off
a CDROM, from the network, and even directly into an OpenFirmware
prompt.
* ybin: some errors were sent to stdout instead of stderr, fixed.
* ofpath: refuse to run on anything but GNU/Linux. (for now anyway)
2000-09-18 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.25
* ofboot: now changes the background color to black and the text
color to cyan like yaboot. Thanks to again to iNOUE Koich!
2000-09-16 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.24
* ofboot: many bugs in the Forth code fixed. code should now be
compliant to the OpenFirmware spec. Also add CD boot menu option.
(add enablecdboot to /etc/yaboot.conf) Thanks to iNOUE Koich! for
the Forth code.
2000-09-13 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.23
* ybin: now hard code the target filename for ofboot, its always
installed as ofboot.b on the bootstrap partition. This eliminates
ambiguity when someone tries a different script with different name.
* ybin: all debugging output goes to stderr now.
2000-09-09 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.22
* ofboot.b renamed to ofboot. (.b means boot block which this is not)
* yaboot and ofboot are now installed in /usr/local/lib/yaboot/
instead of /boot, since these files are never directly accessed by
the firmware it is not really appropriate to keep them in /boot.
make install will create backwords compatibility symlinks when
installing over an older version of ybin so nothing should break.
IMPORTANT: you should run mkofboot on a dedicated bootstrap
partition to purge old filenames.
* Man pages updated to reflect new file locations. Also include a
patch to change the paths to /usr/lib/yaboot for Debian and redhat
package maintainers.
* ybin: now checks two places for a default value for install=
/usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot, /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot.
2000-09-02 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.21
* ybin: fixed nvram update so it uses a real filename instead of
\\:tbxi when nobless is set in /etc/yaboot.conf. (\\: means find
file in blessed directory).
* ofpath: more oldworld machines supported. Now supports 7200,
7300, 8600, 9500, Gossamer G3, PowerBook 1998, PowerBook 3400 (and
possibly 2400).
2000-08-31 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.20
* ybin: check for Newworld compatible nvsetenv and if found will
automatically update the OpenFirmware boot-device variable in
nvram.
* ofpath: support some oldworld machines. (this does not mean
ybin/yaboot supports oldworld). Also silence a harmless error on
machines lacking a CDROM.
* ofboot.b: added more machines to <COMPATIBLE>
2000-08-25 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.19
* Added PowerMac3,2 and PowerMac3,3 to ofboot.b scripts. Fixes
Debian bug #69870
2000-08-22 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.18
* ofboot.b: changed the yaboot boot commands to boot yaboot by
filename rather then file type. Booting by file type did not work
reliably on all machines.
* ybin: hard code the target filename for yaboot, regardless of
the source filename (from install=) the target filename on the
bootstrap partition will always be "yaboot.b".
* Added ofpath utility, this is a rewrite of the show_of_path.sh
utility written by Olaf Hering. Ofpath works with /bin/ash and on
stripped down systems such as the Debian boot floppies. Also
wrote a small man page for this utility.
* ybin: automatically use ofpath to find the OpenFirmware device
path when ofpath= is not defined in /etc/yaboot.conf. Ybin will
also use ofpath when macos= or macosx= are set to unix device
nodes (ie /dev/hda11), these options can still be set to
OpenFirmware paths as well.
* Makefile: minor cleanup, added installation of ofpath
utility/man page as well as a deinstall rule.
2000-08-13 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.17
* Yaboot 0.7 binary included.
* ybin: fix bug where ybin would fail if the bootstrap files
included an "_" in the filename. (actually its a workaround for
hfsutils brain-damage)
* ofboot.b: completely rewritten. Now includes shell script code
to allow ybin to configure it based on config options in
/etc/yaboot.conf instead of requiring the user to edit it
themselves. Additionally this new script will display a REAL boot
menu when dual booting is configured. It is capable of dual or
tri booting GNU/Linux (yaboot), MacOS 8.*/9.* and MacOSX. This
new ofboot.b script should *NOT* be edited by the user, and thus
should NOT be marked as a conffile in Debian and redhat packages.
These packages should now install ofboot.b in /boot instead of
/etc since it is no longer a config file. WARNING: The Forth code
in this script has not been tested on all machines and may not be
universally compatible. Thanks to Chris Emerson for writing the
Forth code.
* yaboot.conf: new options: ofboot= macos= macosx= delay=
defaultos=. See the yaboot.conf man page for details.
* Now include a Makefile to handle installation, only make install
is defined. Removed install-sh.
* mkofboot is now distributed and installed as a symlink instead
of a hardlink.
* Man page updates.
2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.16
* menu_ofboot.b: fixed bug where the yaboot line was missing the
boot command, this prevented it from booting yaboot.
2000-04-25 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.15
* Merge quik's bootstrap(8) man page with ybin's ofboot(8) man
page and rename it back to bootstrap(8). This also solves the
conflict with quik. In a more useful way IMO.
2000-04-24 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.14
* Ship man pages uncompressed, gzip them in install-sh instead,
this allows for easier patching by debian maintainers if need be.
* Rename bootstrap(8) man page to ofboot(8) so ybin does not
conflict with quik.
2000-04-23 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.13
* Rewrote the config file parsing yet again to remove dependencies
on tr, and awk. This allows ybin to function on minimal systems
such as boot/rescue floppies. This also pretty much solves the
slowness problem. Thanks to Daniel Jacobwitz for the help.
* Made changes to remove dependencies on basename and wc. Again
this is to allow ybin to work on boot floppies.
* Changed all calls to grep to stop using GNU extensions, this is
so ybin will work properly with the minimal version of grep
included in busybox.
* Added signal handling so ybin/mkofboot will cleanup after
themselves if killed with signals 1 2 3 or 15.
* Added OS Badge icons to the ofboot.b scripts. On G4 machines
you can hold down the option key and get a graphical boot selector
with one button for each bootable partition, the button with the
penguin icon is the bootstrap partition. Thanks to Nicholas
Humfrey for creating the Badge icon.
* Minor updates to the man pages.
2000-04-19 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.12
* Now include yaboot binary in ybin distribution.
* Include a install-sh script to install everything.
* Use of the separate ybin.conf file is deprecated. Use
/etc/yaboot.conf instead.
* Removed the so called kludge options, without being able to
bless the root directory they were just useless bloat.
* Removed useless --readonly option, it was already default (as it
should be)
* Deprecated bootconf options since the yaboot.conf is the same
config ybin uses. (it is still there and works but that may change)
* Changed configuration file format to be more like quik/lilo:
bootfile= is now install= (--bootfile is now --install), wrapper=
is now magicboot=, usemount, protect, and hide are now just a
keyword options, if they are present in the configuration file
they are turned on, if they are not present they are turned off.
bless= is now the nobless keyword option, since bless is default
this one changed names.
* ybin: no longer need to specify -C /dev/null if you don't have a
configuration file in /etc/. If this is the case ybin will generate
a generic yaboot.conf to install on the bootstrap partition.
* More changes to the configuration parsing to improve speed, the
format change also helped the speed problem.
* Added man pages for ybin, mkofboot, yaboot, yaboot.conf and
bootstrap.
* More general fixes/cleanup/tweaks.
2000-03-13 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.11
* Added command line options to both scripts, try --help. This
makes the ybin.conf file optional if you wish (-C /dev/null)
* Changed the way the config file is parsed, no longer source it
with the shell, this allows ybin.conf to be merged with
yaboot.conf at which point yaboot can live with unknown options in
its config file.
* Use /etc/ybin.conf if it exists, if not use /etc/yaboot.conf for
ybin configuration.
* Merged ybin and mkofboot into one script, mkofboot shared 90% of
of its code with ybin anyway and this will make them much easier
to maintain. mkofboot is now a hard link to ybin (or a symlink if
you prefer, both will work)
* Added an experimental feature to generate a yaboot.conf on the
fly based on command line options. The defaults should be
workable on a Debian system with an internal ATA disk, with the
root partition being the 3rd on the disk. Depends on mktemp for
creating the temporary file, Debian's mktemp is secure against
race conditions, use with caution if your distribution lacks a
secure mktemp utility. This option is activated with -c auto.
* No longer depends on bash. Works with Debian's
/bin/ash. Interpreter is now set to /bin/sh.
* Assorted cleanup, minor bug fixes.
* Added example yaboot.conf.
2000-02-04 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.10
* Added a simple multi-boot menu written by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.
2000-01-17 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.9
* mkofboot was still broken. :-(
2000-01-14 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.8
* Added a basic CHRP script ofboot.b to work around the problem of
OF refusing to load `tbxi' files unless they contain a CHRP boot
header. See README.ofboot.b for details.
* Updated default ybin.conf to install ofboot.b by default.
2000-01-13 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.7
* mkofboot: Check for hformat was broken.
2000-01-12 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.6
* mkofboot: Fixed problem where it was insisting that mkdosfs be
present even when using hfs filesystems if usemount=yes.
* mkofboot: Added proper checks for hformat or mkdosfs.
2000-01-09 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.5
* First public release.
* Add TODO and BUGS files.
* mkofboot: Check to see if usemount=yes, and if so make sure we
are root before proceeding to erase the partition.
* ybin: Removed useless echo line.
2000-01-05 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.4
* ybin (util_install): Fully support OF `wrappers' now: if a
wrapper is defined in the configuration file then the wrapper is
given the HFS file type specified instead of the bootfile, the
bootfile's type is set to "boot".
* ybin: New configuration option `bless' when yes and are using
hfsutils we will `bless' the root directory of the bootstrap
filesystem so OF should be able to find and boot the system
without reconfiguration.
* mkofboot/ybin (checkconf): Add validation for the new `bless'
option. Also add check that the wrapper, if defined, exists and we
have permission to it.
2000-01-04 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.3.
* ybin (util_install): Quote the filetype/creator arguments to
hattrib to prevent the shell from interpreting any meta-characters
in some cases. Also no longer try and set metadata on wrapper if
there is no wrapper.
* mkofboot: When creating hfs or dos filesystems give them volume
label of "bootstrap".
2000-01-03 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.2.
* mkofboot: added -w switch to grep when checking if a filesystem
is already mounted to prevent erroneous positive matches.
* ybin (util_install): Add check to make sure that the target
device is not mounted as a filesystem before mucking with it.
* Added changelog.
2000-01-01 Ethan Benson <[email protected]>
* Version 0.1.
* first version.
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