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Changelog for mkinitrd-4.2.15-1.x86_64.rpm :
Wed May 18 00:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.15-1
- Better init argument handling (don\'t mess up with serial console)

Wed May 11 00:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.14-1
- Better init argument handling (no uninitialized args)

Sat May 7 00:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.13-1
- allow for lvm VGs to be in the /dev/mapper/$VG-$LV format (#154767)

Thu May 5 00:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.12-1
- Don\'t copy \"console=\" arguments from /proc/cmdline to init

Thu May 5 00:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.11-1
- don\'t copy \"rw\" option into the initrd; use \"ro\" instead if it\'s
the only option.
- Don\'t print \"unmounting old ...\" messages in nash if we\'re set to quiet

Wed May 4 00:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.10-1
- set umask explicitly

Wed Apr 27 00:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.9-1
- invoke bash with \"--norc\" (#155986)
- use binary udevstart.static, not a symlink
- print exit status in nash when programs return an error

Wed Apr 6 00:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.8-1
- Don\'t consolidate duplicates in \"--args\" (#147222)

Thu Mar 31 00:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.7-1
- unmount what filesystems we can from the initramfs
- close appropriate files before spawning init

Wed Mar 23 23:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.6-1
- work correctly with \"set -o noclobber\"
- wait longer after modprobe of usb-storage
- fix a wrong error output file

Tue Mar 22 23:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.5-1
- handle mount-by-uuid for root correctly (##148756)

Thu Mar 17 23:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.4-1
- don\'t do vgmknodes at all for lvm

Tue Mar 15 23:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.3-1
- use --ignorelockingfailure with lvm commands in the initrd, and only
activate the volume / is on. (#151172)

Tue Mar 15 23:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.2-1
- Fix accidental formatting of data in grub.conf (#151118,
from proskiAATTgnu.org)

Tue Mar 1 23:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.1-1
- typo fixes
- one missed gcc4 fix

Tue Mar 1 23:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.0.4-1
- fix gcc4 warnings/errors
- use -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 wherever we don\'t use RPM_OPT_FLAGS

Fri Jan 21 23:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.0.3-1
- Make nash expand environment variables on command lines (#144474)
- Make nash check pids returned from wait
*() (#145660)

Fri Jan 21 23:00:00 2005 Peter Jones - 4.2.0.2-1
- Make getArg return NULL on cmd=NULL, fixing #144472 . Based on a
patch from Kasper Dupont.

Tue Jan 18 23:00:00 2005 Jeremy Katz - 4.2.0.1-1
- fix grubby tests to run on systems with /boot = /

Tue Jan 18 23:00:00 2005 Jeremy Katz - 4.2.0-1
- grubby: add multiboot support for xen0
- new-kernel-pkg: likewise

Mon Dec 20 23:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.20-1
- grubby: fix mac yaboot.conf updating if magicboot line is present

Mon Nov 22 23:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.19-1
- remove use of dietlibc for nash

Wed Nov 3 23:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz
- handle machines with lots of disks in /proc/partitions (#137816)

Mon Oct 25 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz
- require cpio (#136814)

Mon Oct 18 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.18-1
- fix UPDATEDEFAULT with new-kernel-pkg (#135997)

Sat Oct 16 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.17-1
- run udevstart again instead of sleeping, this will ensure all
devices are created in all cases after modules have been
loaded (thanks to notting)

Sat Oct 16 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.16-1
- mkinitrd: Sleep briefly to let udev finish creating devices

Thu Oct 14 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.15-1
- new-kernel-pkg: set new kernels as default (#135161) when
a) /etc/sysconfig/kernel contains UPDATEDEFAULT=yes
b) --package foo is passed in and foo matches DEFAULTKERNEL
in /etc/sysconfig/kernel

Fri Oct 1 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.14-1
- support changing root on the kernel command line with lvm (#133236)

Thu Sep 23 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.12-1
- update to work with udev 032, conflict with old udev
- if udev is present, use it. trying to avoid the use of udev if it\'s
installed is the road to things not working

Sat Sep 11 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.11-1
- more fixing

Thu Sep 9 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.10-1
- mkinitrd: mount tmpfs with the right permissions

Wed Sep 1 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.9-1
- mkinitrd: use tmpfs instead of ramfs for udev stuff

Sat Aug 28 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.8-1
- nash: and the hack to fix ppc broke other arches, conditionalize it (#130928)

Thu Aug 26 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.6-1
- nash: fix another off by one (#130987)
- nash: hack to fix ppc booting (#130928)

Thu Aug 26 00:00:00 2004 Karsten Hopp - 4.1.5-1
- fix zfcp handling

Wed Aug 25 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.4-1
- nash: create raid device if needed (think udev) before calling
the raidautorun ioctl (#130561)

Wed Aug 25 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.3-1
- nash: make echo behavior consistent with other shells
- more fixes from Steve Grubb (#129673)

Tue Aug 24 00:00:00 2004 Karsten Hopp 4.1.2-1
- mkinitrd: add support for zfcp devices (mainframe)

Fri Aug 20 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.1-1
- don\'t remove lost+found (#130327)
- don\'t try to mount/umount /sys on 2.4 (#130298)

Wed Aug 18 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.1.0-1
- mkinitrd: if using udev for the initrd, set things up appropriately
(based on patches from Harald Hoyer and Thomas Woerner)
- nash: support for echo -n
- nash: better error message on exec failures
- nash: exec udev if we\'re called as a hotplug handler

Tue Aug 17 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.0.6-1
- various fixes from a code review by Steve Grubb which should fix
some of the lingering problems (#129673)
- nash: warning fix from Michal Jaegermann (#129673)
- grubby: removal with (hd0,0)

Fri Aug 13 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.0.5-1
- nash: oops, let\'s try that again

Thu Aug 12 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.0.4-1
- nash: fix mounting by label in some cases (tracked down by
Erik Jacobson, #129581, #129673, #129667, #129635)

Wed Aug 11 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz 4.0.3-1
- grubby: more (hd0,0) support (#125156)
- mkinitrd.8: update manpage (#129585)
- nash: fix some warnings

Thu Aug 5 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz 4.0.2-1
- nash: support bind mounting
- grubby: support the (hd0,0)/path syntax for kernels and initrds in
grub.conf (#114758, #125156, #120906)

Thu Aug 5 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.0.1-1
- improve handling of arguments to init with initramfs (#129057)

Tue Aug 3 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 4.0.0-1
- create an initramfs on 2.6 kernels instead of an initrd
- use new mount magic instead of pivot_root
on 2.6 kernels
- try to handle the case of modules going away on kernel upgrades a
little bit more nicely (#123994)
- avoid over-zealous creation of /dev/mapper/control (#127115)
- improve nash(8) manpage (#127413)

Sat Jun 19 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 3.5.24-1
- fix usb-storage detection with 2.6 (#126309)

Wed May 19 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 3.5.23-1
- add support for RAID6

Thu May 13 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz
- add support for multipath personality from Tom Callaway (#120379)

Fri May 7 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 3.5.22-1
- bump initrd size (#122325)

Thu Apr 15 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 3.5.21-1
- new-kernel-package: add patch from Ryan Tilder to allow setting new
kernel as default (#117605)
- mkinitrd: i2o_pci isn\'t in 2.6 (#120827)
- new-kernel-pkg: conditionalize kernel binary name for 2.6 vs 2.4
on ppc/ppc64 (as it\'s vmlinuz in 2.6 instead of the
vmlinux from 2.4) (#120868)

Wed Apr 14 00:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 3.5.20-1
- mkinitrd: minor regex fix for some kernel names (#120624)

Mon Feb 9 23:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz - 3.5.19-1
- nash/mkinitrd: quiet mode for nash and necessary mkinitrd changes
to work with it
- mkinitrd: add lxo\'s patch for copying lvm.conf (#112099)
- new-kernel-pkg: allow specifying the banner used in the boot loader config
on the command line (#114809)

Tue Jan 13 23:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz
- mkinitrd: add patch from Alex Kiernan for modules with multiple
deps in 2.6 (#113306)

Thu Jan 8 23:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz 3.5.18-1
- new-kernel-pkg: add a --kernel-arguments option (#113125)

Tue Jan 6 23:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz
- fix ybin path (#112939)

Sun Jan 4 23:00:00 2004 Jeremy Katz 3.5.17-1
- mkinitrd: handle multiple spaces in modules.conf (from Lubomir Bulej)
- nash: rebuild against new dietlibc fixing problems with root=LABEL= (#112623)
- mkinitrd: determine kernel version and adjust modulefile appropriately
so that we look at /etc/modprobe.conf for 2.6 kernels
- mkinitrd: first pass at getting lvm working on 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrade

Wed Dec 24 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz
- mkinitrd: quiet strip by default

Mon Dec 22 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.16.1-1
- make stripping less aggressive

Mon Dec 22 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.16-1
- fixing handling of non-lvm case when /dev/mapper/control isn\'t present
- add patch from Al Viro to get root dev in numeric form by grokking sysfs

Tue Dec 9 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz
- strip modules if /usr/bin/strip exists (#111756)

Fri Dec 5 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.15-2
- require lvm2 so that it gets installed early enough

Fri Dec 5 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.15-1
- mkinitrd: add support for lvm2 (note: will not currently handle being
on a running 2.4 kernel and installing 2.6 with lvm rootfs)

Wed Dec 3 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz
- nash: add mkdmnod for creating the device-mapper control node

Fri Oct 3 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.14-1
- fix dependency on /usr/bin/tail and /usr/bin/id

Wed Oct 1 00:00:00 2003 Florian La Roche
- remove one more mktemp dir for \"all loopback devices in use\" case

Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.13-1
- fix getting modules from /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates

Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.12-1
- argument checking and usage for /sbin/installkernel (#103109)

Thu Sep 4 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.11-1
- really only do grub configs on grub arches
- some usb mkinitrd fixes

Sat Aug 30 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.10-1
- clean up bogus warning in installkernel
- only try to do grub configs on arches which support grub (#103261)

Fri Aug 8 00:00:00 2003 Matt Wilson 3.5.9-1
- add \
to error messages in grubby
- NUL terminate buffer returned from readlink properly
- symlinks are most likely relative, chdir to / before trying to
follow them
- yaboot needs boot prefix
- silo needs boot prefix too

Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz
- grubby: don\'t segfault on label=\
(reported by dburcaw)

Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz
- grubby: patch from zaitcev for uninitialized variable that can get
hit in the zipl case

Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.8-1
- bump initrd size (#99525)

Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.7-1
- pick modules from /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates first
- be less confused by more than one module of a name

Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.6-1
- unbreak reading module options from modules.conf again (#97982)

Sat Jun 21 00:00:00 2003 Bill Nottingham 3.5.5-1
- fix modules.dep usage for 2.5/2.6

Sat Jun 21 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.4-1
- handle more bizarre modules.conf constructs (notting)

Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.3-1
- mkinitrd: fix copying of pvs (#97314, #97289)
- mkinitrd: use pvscan instead of lvmdiskscan to find PVs to work
better on other arches
- mkinitrd: better check for dasd existence
- mkinitrd: make certain lvm-mod is included if root on lvm

Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.2-1
- mkinitrd: revert use of modprobe -c. it breaks in the installer when we
don\'t have a modules.dep for the BOOT kernel
- nash: return pivot_root call correctly (#97753)

Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.1-1
- nash: fix syscall bits with gcc 3.3 on s390
- new-kernel-pkg: do depmod before mkinitrd (#97218)

Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.5.0-1
- mkinitrd: add patch from gcAATTmandrakesoft.com to determine module
deps from modules.dep (#87873)
- tweak patch to not break weird cases where module deps aren\'t all
you need :/
- grubby: don\'t remove the last kernel (#60041)
- mkinitrd: use modprobe -c to find module options (#89794)

Wed May 21 00:00:00 2003 Matt Wilson 3.4.52-1
- use addSystemMap to build the image for iSeries (#91187)

Sat May 17 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.51-1
- grubby: error out gracefully if we run out of space (#85424)
- mkinitrd: copy parent dirs for pvs (#88962)
- mkinitrd: exit with an exit status if tar fails (#90123)
- new-kernel-pkg: only use the first entry for / (#90155)
- grubby: fix a buffer overflow (#90444)

Thu May 1 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.50-1
- fix typo in new-kernel-pkg for iSeries

Thu May 1 00:00:00 2003 Elliot Lee
- BuildRequires: popt
- Change grubby Makefile to static-link popt a bit more cleanly

Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.49.1-1
- use Arjan\'s suggestion of vmlinitrd for the kernel + initrd combo file

Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.49-2
- fix description referencing /etc/conf.modules (#89558)

Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.49-2
- require ppc64-utils on ppc

Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.49-1
- new-kernel-pkg: on iSeries, we don\'t have a boot loader, just make the
kernel + initrd combo file (/boot/vmlinux-version.img)

Tue Apr 8 00:00:00 2003 Karsten Hopp 3.4.48-1
- Fix segfault on mainframe

Wed Mar 26 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.47-1
- mkinitrd: fix using options for loading modules
- mkinitrd: don\'t use kernel parameters for dasd at mkinitrd time,
use what\'s in modules.conf

Mon Mar 24 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.46-1
- new-kernel-pkg: add necessary bits for s390, some logic cleanups
- grubby: fix root detection for s390{,x}

Sun Mar 23 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.45-1
- grubby: add silo support (sparc)
- grubby: add zipl support (s390{,x})
- add grubby test cases for zipl support

Wed Mar 19 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.44.1-1
- fix dasd option reading

Fri Mar 14 23:00:00 2003 Phil Knirsch 3.4.44
- Added automatic dasd= parameters for kernel parameter on s390(x).

Tue Mar 4 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.43-1
- apply ppc patches for new-kernel-pkg and installkernel from Dan
Burcaw
- man page tweak (#85471)

Tue Feb 18 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.42-1
- grubby: fix segfault from uninitialized variable (#84128)

Tue Feb 11 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.41-1
- nash: add readlink
- use readlink for rootdev to handle symlinks to root devs (#83391)

Tue Feb 4 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.40-1
- fix i2o module ordering (#83447)
- ifarch\'d build requires of dietlibc now that the build system has a way to
handle these

Sat Feb 1 23:00:00 2003 Florian La Roche
- change one test from a number to a string test that could otherwise
fail in not properly setup chroot environments

Fri Jan 31 23:00:00 2003
- added support for yaboot
- test script runs tests for all platforms
- separated elilo configuration from lilo mode, allowing elilo specific
tests to be run on any platform

Sun Jan 26 23:00:00 2003
- grubby now shortens lilo titles to ensure they are less then 16 characters
long (76236)
- mkinitrd would only turn on /dev/md0 if raid was needed; now it enables
all raid devices listed in /proc/mdstat (82209)
- use product name from /etc/redhat-release to generate label in grub.conf
(82352)

Mon Jan 20 23:00:00 2003 Bill Nottingham 3.4.36-1
- don\'t error out running awk on /proc/mdstat if /proc/mdstat isn\'t
there

Tue Jan 14 23:00:00 2003
- all mkdev() actions will create directories as needed (some code in
mkdevices is now obsolete; I\'ll remove it later) (#73317)
- added mkdev command to test the above
- support diratime/nodiratime mount options (#78738)
- grubby will follow symlinks when writing new config file (#78713)
- don\'t depend on raidtab, use /proc/mdstat instead (#80424) this covers
both mkinitrd and grubby

Sun Jan 5 23:00:00 2003 Jeremy Katz 3.4.34-1
- grubby: fix segfault finding default if default doesn\'t have a root= (#66000)
- don\'t include usb modules by default. pass --with-usb to get usb modules
- make sure kudzu exists before trying to exec it
- handle multiple scsi hosts being present (#77422)
- add /usr/sbin to default path (#79581)
- fix using --builtin= (#80448)
- grubby: preserve the mode on config files (#80776)

Mon Dec 16 23:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- errno fixes

Tue Dec 3 23:00:00 2002 Florian La Roche
- /sbin/new-kernel-pkg: fix a test to have correct \"\"

Fri Nov 22 23:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- mkinitrd: more gzipped module fixes

Thu Nov 21 23:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- mkinitrd: add support for finding gzipped modules
- mkinitrd: don\'t be noisy if we don\'t have lvm-mod loaded

Wed Nov 6 23:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- grubby: don\'t bail when looking for root in appends of lilo-style configs
- include grubby on x86_64

Fri Sep 27 00:00:00 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai
- fix some syntax errors
- use grep\'s -q flag to save a redirect in places where we\'re not redirecting
stderr

Fri Sep 6 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- grubby could segfault by going into its lilo checking if it couldn\'t find
a default to copy (default had no root= and --bad-image-okay wasn\'t
being used)

Tue Sep 3 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- nash: create directories if needed in mkdevices command (#73090)
- grubby: handle lilo case of non-linux default (#72202)

Sun Sep 1 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- grubby: fix for case like \'append = \" hdc=ide-scsi \"\' (#68802)

Sat Aug 31 00:00:00 2002 Bill Nottingham
- fix firewire stuff (#72916)

Sat Aug 24 00:00:00 2002 Bill Nottingham
- fix mpt fusion stuff

Wed Aug 14 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- /boot/efi/redhat -> /boot/efi/EFI/redhat on ia64

Mon Aug 12 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- fix grubby to work correctly on ia64

Fri Aug 9 00:00:00 2002 Michael Fulbright
- added sleep command to nash and fixed creating initrd with / or /boot on usb

Wed Jul 31 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- grubby: adding kernels to lilo.conf when not using root=LABEL will work
now too

Sat Jul 27 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- didn\'t close /proc/partitions in mkdevices

Fri Jul 26 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- grubby: fix adding kernels to lilo when using root=LABEL

Thu Jul 25 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- added and used mkdevices command (68959)

Thu Jul 18 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- do proper probing to check root=LABEL
- --bootloader-probe didn\'t support /etc/sysconfig/grub

Sat Jul 13 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- don\'t sanity check root=LABEL right now; probing might make sense?

Thu Jul 11 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- --ifneeded is obsolete; we always need initrds
- grubby lets you specify multiple indexes for --info
- grubby lets you select kernels by title
- added showlabels to nash
- new-kernel-pkg sets the root device from /etc/fstab rather then inheriting it
- new-kernel-pkg removes all entries w/ a duplicate label (67459)

Tue Jul 9 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- usb root device code could fail, causing no initrd to be made

Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- grubby didn\'t add new kernels properly

Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- support root on usb devices

Thu Jun 27 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- other= in lilo.conf wasn\'t being parsed out properly

Tue Jun 25 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- changed --add-kernel implementation so that --args gets handled properly

Mon Jun 24 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- added loadinitrd (used by mkbootdisk) on ia32 and sparc
- modules \"off\" and \"null\" should be ignored (67086)
- mkrootdev looks for root=LABEL=/ in /proc/cmdline, so root by label
works again (fully determined by root= kernel parameter)
- added --update-kernel and --remove-args arguments to grubby
- kernel specification of ALL supported by grubby
- DEFAULT accepted much more consistently
- grubby --info displays info on all kernels specified, not just the first
- ext3 need mbcache now (67354)
- grubby allows config file entry numbers to be used as kernel paths
- support /etc/sysconfig/grub.conf
- display lba info from lilo.conf file in --info

Fri Jun 14 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- don\'t run lilo twice on kernel removal in new-kernel-pkg
- don\'t run grubby to add/remove kernels from new-kernel-pkg if
bootloader config doesn\'t

Wed Jun 12 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- added --bootloader-probe to grubby
- wrote a man page for grubby
- include grubby on ia64
- updated new-kernel-pkg to work with lilo/elilo
- added --info=DEFAULT option

Tue Jun 11 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- start raid before lvm so that you can have root on lvm on raid (#66175)

Wed Jun 5 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- failed to initialize a variable in grubby

Sat Jun 1 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- added --grub option so grub tests could run on ia64
- added some basic tests of lilo default directive handling

Thu May 30 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- require lvm

Wed May 29 00:00:00 2002 Bill Nottingham
- fix umounting of /initrd when pivoting

Wed May 29 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- marked /sbin/installkernel as %config (53006)
- run make test during build

Thu May 23 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- added --nopivot (53679)
- honor INSTALL_PATH in installkernel (32833)
- installkernel versions old kernels as well (52756)
- lilo support added to grubby

Wed May 22 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- cleaned up usage message
- added --omit-lvm-modules to man page
- added --builtin option (65250)
- skip comments in fstab (65249)
- added findlodev to nash, use that to pick block device (63421)
- support -o option in nash\'s mount (59185)
- look for xfs_dmapi (60066)
- added > support for executed commands (61180)
- grubby copies permissions from old config file (59227)
- use options from fstab for root filesystem (56071)
- try and be better about returning nonzero on error (60203)
- make modprobe symlink properly to avoid kernel message (62145)
- support linear raid (12775)
- support fallback option in grub config (54794)
- comments in template entries not handled quite right (65198)

Sun Apr 21 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- grubby does a better job of not adding superfluous default= lines

Thu Apr 18 00:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- preload works again

Thu Apr 11 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- revert to not mounting by label

Sat Apr 6 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- include pbrown\'s changes to load parport_pc when needing ppa.o (#35360)

Fri Apr 5 00:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- fix redirection bug (#62623)
- create proper link of /sbin->/bin in initrd (#62199)

Thu Mar 28 23:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- prereq dev package so that we always have the dev package before we get run

Fri Mar 22 23:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- duh, that won\'t work. fix it
- don\'t require lvm tools right now

Thu Mar 21 23:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- fix nash to create directories for devices like cciss and ida

Tue Feb 5 23:00:00 2002 Bill Nottingham
- run mkinitrd with -f in new-kernel-pkg
- don\'t run lilo in /sbin/installkernel

Fri Feb 1 23:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- require lvm

Thu Jan 31 23:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- clean up warnings for when /proc isn\'t mounted

Tue Jan 29 23:00:00 2002 Jeremy Katz
- fix probing for LVM usage to require a volume group to exist before adding
the module
- --omit-lvm-modules will omit LVM modules
- add support for root device being LVM

Wed Jan 16 23:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- look for a non /tmpfs directory
- added support for xfs
- use with raid md.o if it exists
- fixed bug in echo
- use find form nash rather then /usr (mkinitrd shouldn\'t need /usr
mounted)

Fri Jan 11 23:00:00 2002 Erik Troan
- added support for mounting root filesystem by label
- switched to dietlibc from minilibc
- fix so --preload= works [33675,57560,44377]
- added info on --image-version and --nocompress to man page [57560]
- set fileystem check interval to 0 in case the system clock
is borked [51454]
- give a proper error when run by a user other then root [27218,53159]
- grubby statically linked against popt [55305]
- cleaned up verbose output a bit [21791]

Tue Dec 18 23:00:00 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsr�d
- Add LVM module when LVM is used

Thu Sep 6 00:00:00 2001 Jeremy Katz
- grubby shouldn\'t blow away default=saved lines (#52981)

Sat Sep 1 00:00:00 2001 Jeremy Katz
- fix new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd for ia64

Fri Aug 31 00:00:00 2001 Erik Troan
- fixed bug handling invalid default (MF #52889)
- in some cases we would set the default to point at a removed image

Thu Aug 30 00:00:00 2001 Erik Troan
- minor grubby fixes

Wed Aug 29 00:00:00 2001 Jeremy Katz
- let new-kernel-pkg be able to do more (initrds, modules.
*)
- include grubby only on x86

Tue Aug 28 00:00:00 2001 Jeremy Katz
- more grubby fixups for having a /boot
- added new-kernel-pkg

Mon Aug 27 00:00:00 2001 Erik Troan
- added grubby
- added installkernel

Sat Aug 4 00:00:00 2001 Matt Wilson
- make consoles with the correct minor numbers
- applied patch from hjl to fix fstab parsing (#50819)

Sat Jul 21 00:00:00 2001 Jeremy Katz
- skip errors finding jbd as a module if we\'re skipping them trying to find
ext3 so that you can build a kernel with ext3 built-in and still use an
initrd

Thu Jul 12 00:00:00 2001 Bill Nottingham
- don\'t print errors if /etc/raidtab doesn\'t exist
- or /etc/{modules.conf,conf.modules}, for that matter

Sat Jul 7 00:00:00 2001 Matt Wilson
- don\'t dig through /etc/fstab to find out if we have a filesystem on
a RAID device, it\'s usually mounted by label so /dev/mdN isn\'t there
at all (#46525)

Wed Jun 27 00:00:00 2001 Bill Nottingham
- require filesystem >= 2.1.0, otherwise we don\'t boot

Fri Jun 22 00:00:00 2001 Erik Troan
- added a bunch of commands to nash
- use pivot_root
- support ext3

Sat Jun 9 00:00:00 2001 Florian La Roche
- delete the exclusivearch line completely

Fri Mar 23 23:00:00 2001 Matt Wilson
- reset the state of findmodule after getting the modules we need

Wed Feb 28 23:00:00 2001 Matt Wilson
- changed the Requires on mktemp from >= 1.5 to >= 1.5-5 (which included
-d support) (#30127)

Fri Feb 23 23:00:00 2001 Erik Troan
- let nash be invoked as modprobe to avoid a modprobe failure to exec
- nash will try to run arbitrary commands now (removing insmod as a special
case)

Mon Feb 12 23:00:00 2001 Matt Wilson
- add findutils to Requires line (#27269)

Thu Feb 8 23:00:00 2001 Matt Wilson
- added checks to load the modules i2o_block needs

Wed Feb 7 23:00:00 2001 Bill Nottingham
- fix utterly broken build

Wed Jan 31 23:00:00 2001 Helge Deller
- added mandir to nash Makefile (RH 6.x compatibility)

Tue Jan 30 23:00:00 2001 Erik Troan
- added dependency on mktemp

Thu Jan 25 23:00:00 2001 Erik Troan
- we need to insert xor.o before raid5.o

Wed Jan 24 23:00:00 2001 Matt Wilson
- code in RAID_AUTORUN ioctl fallback
- fixed raidstart check flag from -z to -n

Tue Jan 23 23:00:00 2001 Erik Troan
- switched to using nash from sash

Tue Jan 23 23:00:00 2001 Matt Wilson
- added patch from twaugh to avoid blindly adding scsi_mod
and sd_mod to initrd if they are not needed (#24114)

Thu Jan 11 23:00:00 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
- Enlarge initrds, needed for systems with both IDE and SCSI
(Bug #23846)
- Version 2.[6789] probably shouldn\'t identify itself as 2.6
with --version. ;)
- bzip2 source

Wed Dec 20 23:00:00 2000 Erik Troan
- let the kernel autoload ide-cd

Fri Dec 8 23:00:00 2000 Erik Troan
- added modular ide support

Thu Aug 31 00:00:00 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai
- use mktemp to create temporary files and directories

Sun Aug 6 00:00:00 2000 Erik Troan
- changes from Keith Owens for 2.4

Wed Jul 5 00:00:00 2000 Matt Wilson
- build on alpha

Tue Jun 27 00:00:00 2000 Bill Nottingham
- ignore \'unknown\' aliases (they shouldn\'t be there anyways)

Fri Jun 2 00:00:00 2000 Bill Nottingham
- build on ia64
- bump up initrd size on ia64
- modules.confiscation, /usr/man -> /usr/share/man

Wed May 3 00:00:00 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai
- make RPM pick up man page, regardless of compression

Tue Feb 29 23:00:00 2000 Matt Wilson
- add requirement for /sbin/losetup

Mon Feb 7 23:00:00 2000 Matt Wilson
- gzip manpage

Thu Feb 3 23:00:00 2000 Matt Wilson
- gzip manpage

Mon Jan 10 23:00:00 2000 Erik Troan
- use sash, not ash

Mon Jan 3 23:00:00 2000 Matt Wilson
- use ash.static for /bin/sh, not sash

Sat Jan 1 23:00:00 2000 Erik Troan
- configure loopback devices

Wed Sep 29 00:00:00 1999 Bill Nottingham
- sparc fixup from jakub

Thu Sep 23 00:00:00 1999 Michael K. Johnson
- fix cleanup (blush!)

Wed Sep 22 00:00:00 1999 Michael K. Johnson
- now works when /usr is not mounted (do not rely on /usr/bin/install)
- slight cleanups, better usage message

Fri Jul 30 00:00:00 1999 Michael K. Johnson
- Now automatically includes necessary raid modules
- --omit-raid-modules now omits raid modules
- tiny doc updates

Fri Jul 30 00:00:00 1999 Bill Nottingham
- updates from bugzila (#4243, #4244)

Sat Mar 27 23:00:00 1999 Matt Wilson
- --omit-scsi-modules now omits all scsi modules
- updated documentation
- mkinitrd now grabs scsi_hostadapter modules from anywhere -
some RAID controller modules live in block/

Thu Feb 25 23:00:00 1999 Matt Wilson
- updated description

Mon Jan 11 23:00:00 1999 Matt Wilson
- Ignore the absence of scsi modules, include them if they are there, but
don\'t complain if they are not.
- changed --no-scsi-modules to --omit-scsi-modules (as it should have been)

Thu Nov 5 23:00:00 1998 Jeff Johnson
- import from ultrapenguin 1.1.

Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 1998 Jakub Jelinek
- fix for combined sparc/sparc64 insmod, also pluto module is really
fc4:soc:pluto and we don\'t look at deps, so special case it.

Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 1998 Erik Troan
- replaced --needs-scsi-mods (which is now the default) with
--omit-scsi-mods

Sat Aug 8 00:00:00 1998 Jeff Johnson
- correct obscure regex/shell interaction (hardwires tabs on line 232)

Mon Jan 12 23:00:00 1998 Erik Troan
- added \'make archive\' rule to Makefile
- rewrote install procedure for more robust version handling
- be smarter about grabbing options from /etc/conf.modules

Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 1997 Erik Troan
- made it use /bin/ash.static

Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 1997 Erik Troan
- Only use \'-s\' to install binaries if /usr/bin/strip is present.
- Use an image size of 2500 if binaries can\'t be stripped (1500 otherwise)
- Don\'t use \"mount -o loop\" anymore -- losetup the proper devices manually
- Requires losetup, e2fsprogs

Wed Mar 12 23:00:00 1997 Michael K. Johnson
- Fixed a bug in parsing options.
- Changed to use a build tree, then copy the finished tree into the
image after it is built.
- Added patches derived from ones written by Christian Hechelmann which
add an option to put the kernel version number at the end of the module
name and use install -s to strip binaries on the fly.


 
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