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• Tue Sep 11 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-19

  - More conflicting header fixes
  Related: rhbz#277481

• Wed Sep 5 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-18

  - Fix conflicting headers
  Resolves: rhbz#277481

• Tue Aug 14 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-17

  - Set withusb=0 on s390x and s390 architectures
  Resolves: rhbz#251136

• Wed Jul 18 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-16

  - Invoke kpartx the same was as rc.sysinit to maintain naming consistency
  Related: rhbz#185852
  - Remove unused code
  Related: rhbz#185852

• Wed Jul 11 2007 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-15

  - Add more ways to do detection for the EMC hardware handler module.
  Related: #185852

• Wed Jul 11 2007 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-14

  - Add support for disabling dmraid from a config file so we don't regress
  Related: #185852
  - Clean up new mpath code.
  Related: #185852

• Mon Jul 9 2007 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-13

  - Fix "--without-usb"
  Resolves: #230852
  - Make /lib/firmware before trying to put things there
  Related: #218452

• Mon Jul 9 2007 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-12

  - Don't try to guess a module path if modprobe can find it
  Resolves: #218452
  - Load sd_mod explicitly during iscsi boot.
  Resolves: #222685

• Fri Jul 6 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-11

  - Remove unnecessary text
  Resolves: rhbz#238019
  - Handle EMC storage arrays when gathering WWIDs for multipath devices
  Related: rhbz#185852

• Thu Jul 5 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-10

  - Pass the '-p p' argument to kpartx
  Related: rhbz#185852

• Thu Jul 5 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-9

  - Quote tr arguments to avoid errors from certain input
  Related: rhbz#185852
  - In the inst() function, make the destination directory if it doesn't exist
  Related: rhbz#185852

• Tue Jun 26 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-8

  - Properly install files and symlinks in installkernel (prarit)
  Resolves: rhbz#227711

• Wed Jun 20 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-7

  - Ignore Xen block devices when collecting WWID values
  Related: rhbz#185852

• Tue Jun 19 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-6

  - Require device-mapper-multipath and kpartx packages
  Related: rhbz#185852

• Tue Jun 19 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-5

  - Bring network devices up before iscsistart runs
  Related: rhbz#185852

• Mon Jun 18 2007 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-4

  - Make sure to copy in /var/lib/multipath/bindings to the initrd
  - Bring up multipath devices by WWID on initrd boot
  - Resolves: rhbz#185852
  - Resolves: rhbz#216240

• Sat Jun 2 2007 Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-3

  - Backport firmware fixes from Fedora 7 into RHEL5
  (use modinfo to discover firmware files required).
  Related: rhbz#184773

• Wed May 30 2007 Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-2

  - Add support for modinfo to locate modules.
  - Add elilo fixes for IA64 to new-kernel-pkg.
  Resolves: #239392
  Related: #224076

• Thu Jan 18 2007 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.6-1

  - Don't create /dev/ttyN on s390*
  Resolves: #209204

• Mon Jan 15 2007 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.5-1

  - Use a different method of getting iscsi info
  Resolves: #221088

• Thu Jan 11 2007 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.4-1

  - Fix LABEL/UUID handling in mkinitrd
  Resolves: #222106

• Thu Jan 4 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.3-1

  - don't create /dev/tty* on s390 (#209204)
  - handle multi-line options (#209447)
  - ensure that scsi devices have stabilized to ensure the rootdev
  is available (#213039)
  - iscsi tools changed their syntax somewhat (#221088)

• Fri Dec 15 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.2-1

  - Honor installing with 'nompath' (#219483)

• Wed Dec 6 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.1-2

  - Rebuild for new libparted (#218624)

• Mon Oct 30 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.19.1-1

  - Merge missing FC6 fixes back into this branch to eliminate regressions.

• Thu Sep 28 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.19-1

  - Fix booting on non-LVM devices where sysfs uses a '!' in the device path,
  such as cciss. (#201875, #196360)

• Wed Sep 27 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.18-1

  - Split nash into its own package to work around dep sorting issue on install.

• Thu Sep 21 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.17-1

  - Fix module dependency probing when there's no modalias

• Wed Sep 20 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.16-1

  - Don't require non-tmpfs tmpdir unless we're using loopback
  - Fix symlink chasing for yaboot.conf in grubby (#207302)

• Wed Sep 20 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - Hack for moduledeps of gfs2/nfs

• Tue Sep 19 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - Handle zfcp.conf not specifying scsiid and scsilun (#198803)

• Tue Sep 12 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>

  - Fix escaping error in md-handler's awk script

• Fri Sep 8 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 5.1.15-1

  - more typos to fix related to (#205194)

• Fri Sep 8 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.14-1

  - Fix another typo in the same one-line shell wrapper (#205194)

• Fri Sep 8 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.13-1

  - Fix missing coreutils dep and typo in shell wrapper (#205194)
  - Fix bad mpath test (#204758)

• Thu Sep 7 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.12-1

  - Fix bug in dm dependency scanning (#205635)

• Wed Sep 6 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.11-1

  - Pull in bdevid properly (not two sources any more)
  - Lots of minor bugfixes, leak fixups, etc.
  - Updates for new iScsi userland (katzj)
  - ata and usb device id probes in bdevid
  - preliminary work for boot-time device identification.
  - Fixes for network driver selection (katzj)

• Fri Sep 1 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.10-1

  - Fix %setup args
  - Work around lvm locking problems when clvm is installed (#203904)
  - Work around lvm segfault by always using lvm.static
  - Fix label scanning on dm devices (based on a patch from Hans de Goede)
  (#204763)
  - handle the /proc/bus/usb mounting with a state machine in the module
  loading emission, not with a sentinal value
  - do forced finding of devices *after* auto-detection of the root fs, so
  we're not blindsided by bogus scsi_hostadapter aliases and the like.
  - move nashDm* functions to libnash so stuff in block.c can call them.

• Tue Aug 29 2006 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 5.1.9-2

  - BuildRequires parted-devel >= 1.7.1-15

• Thu Aug 17 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.9-1

  - Fix "MOUNT_PROC_USB" warning

• Wed Aug 16 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.8-1

  - Use modprobe to find module deps (#202559, #202596)
  - Fix typo for /dev/efirtc (#202110)

• Wed Aug 16 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.7-1

  - Make "stabilized" work better (patch from Alexandre Oliva)
  - Rewrite usb handling (notting and pjones)
  - Fix libbdevid provides/obsoletes.
  - Include usb hcd drivers by default

• Mon Aug 14 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> - 5.1.6-1

  - don't make every root device /dev/loop0. Eep.

• Mon Aug 14 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.5-1

  - Provide libbdevid.

• Mon Aug 14 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.4-1

  - Fix requires for libbdevid
  - Make it safe to call nashLogger and nashLoggerV with no context.

• Mon Aug 14 2006 Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> - 5.1.3-2

  - Fix compile error

• Fri Aug 11 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> - 5.1.3-1

  - replace various sed/grep/cut/head calls with bash & awk equivalents
  - fix a typo
  - nfs loop fixes
  - silence xen errors when sysfs layout is different

• Wed Jul 26 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.1.2-1

  - pull in new libbdevid for scsi probing fix
  - restructure package so things can include libbdevid (and its modules)
  without depending on python

• Wed Jul 19 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - support for loopback root (including loop-over-NFS)

• Tue Jul 18 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 5.1.1-1

  - build with -fPIC
  - pull in new libbdevid for linking fix

• Mon Jul 17 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 5.1.0-1

  - allow rootdev/rootfs/rootopts parsing on the mkinitrd command line (notting)
  - fix case where we'd spin forever resolving a device (#199046)

• Thu Jul 13 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.47-1

  - add libbdevid
  - fix mode handling on open syscall wrapper (patch from Mark McLoughlin)
  - save dhcp lease file after network initialization (patch from markmc)

• Thu Jul 6 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - if NFS host doesn't resolve, assume it's an IP
  - make sure IP check doesn't get extraneous info

• Wed Jul 5 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>

  - make libnash.a and the nash-devel package
  - use libdhcp instead of pump (patch from Mark McLoughlin)

• Fri Jun 30 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 5.0.46-1

  - if we don't get a modalias for a net driver, try via
  ethtool (notting, #196104)
  - add patches from Aron Griffis (aron AT hp DOT com) for multiboot
  support on ia64

• Thu Jun 22 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 5.0.45-1

  - don't emit for iscsi username/password stuff
  - handle _netdev option for filesystems

• Thu Jun 22 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 5.0.44-1

  - fix so we only use iscsistart if we're doing root on iscsi
  - fix spurious shell error (noticed by karsten)

• Wed Jun 21 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 5.0.43-1

  - Add back patches from pjones which had just been in the package for
  * fix bad shell code to detect DMs in use
  * fix "stabilized" to stat where appropriate
  * use stabilized for sbp2

• Wed Jun 21 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 5.0.42-1

  - add a hack to handle xennet devices not having a modalias (#196104)
  - initial pass at support for root on iscsi (patch from Patrick
  Mansfield )

• Mon Jun 12 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>

  - Fixes for stateless/diskless configurations (patch from Jeff Law,
  )

• Wed May 24 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.41-1

  - (very) basic multipath support
  - minor fixes for usb

• Thu May 18 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 5.0.40-1

  - fix multiple netdev handling (#192321)

• Wed May 10 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.39-1

  - handle [eou]hci_hcd even _more_ correctly ;)

• Tue May 9 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.38-1

  - handle bringing up multiple network devices (katzj)
  - make "withusb=yes" default
  - add --without-usb
  - make usb load [euo]hci_hcd correctly

• Mon May 1 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 5.0.37-1

  - munge rootopts on all non-nfs cases

• Wed Apr 26 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> - 5.0.36-1

  - NFS root fixes
  - fix typo

• Mon Apr 10 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.34-1

  - fix "!" handling for sysfs paths in mkblkdevs
  - fix argument checking for mknodCommand

• Thu Mar 30 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.33-1

  - fix unbalanced pushd in mkinitrd (patch from Pete Zaitcev, bz# 185822)
  - add "cond" command for simple conditionals (bz# 182938)
  - add "status" command to see/set the exit status for testing
  - add "--remove-args" and "--update" args for new-kernel-pkg (patch from
  Don Zickus, bz# 183917)

• Mon Mar 13 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.32-1

  - handle sd_mod on scsi_mod in findmodule, not in the scsi setup. This
  fixes the "no scsi_hostadapter" alias problem better (#182008).

• Fri Mar 10 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.31-1

  - add segv handler for nash

• Wed Mar 8 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.30-1

  - move blkid.tab* references to /etc/blkid/blkid.tab*
  - don't do the selinux context stuff on blkid.tab*, as it now inherits from
  the directory.

• Mon Feb 27 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.29-1

  - Fix pump-devel buildrequires
  - Fix grubby's getpathbyspec() usage (#183010)
  - Fix grubby's makefile
  - Make readlink command work with super scary huge sysfs paths (#183091)
  - Make readlink handle directories better (#166666)
  - Don't create ramdisk blockdevs, mkblkdevs does it (#181873)
  - Don't use showlabels to resolve labels, use resolveDevice so we don't
  need messy awk (#180372)

• Fri Feb 24 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.28-1

  - Make /dev/efirtc on ia64 boxes (#182598)
  - Handle selinux contexts on /etc/blkid.tab* since we can't do it in
  libblkid.
  - Make building from the "nash" subdir work again
  - Make getpathbyspec() allocate on the caller's stack, eliminating
  several memory leaks in callers.
  - Don't strip nash

• Wed Feb 22 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.27-1

  - Fix multiboot argument quoting in new-kernel-package (#182243)
  - Fix "netlink" fd error in hotplug initialization.
  - Fix directory creation in smartmknod()
  - Fix find command when it's not run alone (#181874, patch from Mark
  McLoughlin)
  - Don't use 0-length uuids
  - Update /dev/mapper nodes more often
  - Allow dm partadd not to include the /dev/mapper path
  - Use /etc/fstab, not /fstab, so if you've got /sbin/mount it'll work
  - Bring in sd_mod if libata or scsi_mod is selected (#181983)
  - use -Wl,--wrap,open and __wrap_open() instead of coeOpen()

• Wed Feb 15 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.26-1

  - fix detection of floppy devices, don't probe them for labels
  - fix grubby to use the same label scanning code as nash
  - senseless rewriting of makefiles so that grubby can use nash's .o's, uh,
  "more easily".

• Tue Feb 14 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.25-1

  - rework hotplug control fds (#181515)

• Tue Feb 14 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.24-1

  - use the right nash-dm command to get the device list
  - check if a subdevice has the same partition table, not if it starts
  at the right place (fixes partition comparison on !mirror devices)

• Mon Feb 13 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.23-1

  - add basic hotplug handler and firmware loader

• Mon Feb 13 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 5.0.22-1.1

  - rebump for build order issues during double-long bump

• Sat Feb 11 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.22-1

  - formatting cleanups
  - prefix partition number with "p" for partitions on dmraid
  - add support for disabling partitions which overlap with partitions on
  dm devices.
  - add multipath support
  - fix dm creation ordering and partition detection
  - add "network" command (katzj)
  - add nfsroot support (katzj)
  - put "showlabels" back into nash

• Fri Feb 3 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.21-1

  - add "mount -o bind" support and "mount --move" support (#109366, patch
  from Kasper Dupont)
  - add resolveDevice command, which cases down device labels.
  - remove "findlodev" from the documentation (#178587)
  - fix nash command name parsing bug (#178587)
  - fix "find" argument parsing (#178587)
  - add "find" handling for "-type d"

• Thu Feb 2 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.20-1

  - fix really dumb spec file mistake
  - fix devno detection for /dev/root
  - fix testdm check

• Thu Feb 2 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.19-1

  - mkinitrd: get resolve_dm_name() and get_numeric_dev() from initscripts
  instead of a private copy
  - add block.[ch]:
  - move parse_sysfs_devnum(), sysfs_blkdev_probe(), and
  mkpathbyspec() from nash.c
  - add label/uuid/name lookups for block devices using libblkid
  - add lib.[ch]:
  - move makeFdCoe(), coeOpen(), coeFopen(), coeOpendir(), readFD(),
  nashLoggerV(), nashLogger(), qprintf(), eprintf(), smartmknod(),
  testing, quiet, reallyquiet from nash.c
  - move nashDefaultLogger(), from dm.c
  - move log enums and declarations from dm.h
  - dm.c: add dm_finish(), which does dm_task_destroy() and then library cleanup
  (solves an fd leak)
  - remove linux_fs.h, mount_by_label.[ch], name_to_dev_t.[ch]

• Tue Jan 31 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.18-1

  - make mkinitrd discover dm uuids
  - add uuid support to nash's "dm create" and "dm partadd"
  - add nash command "dm get_uuid $NAME"
  - add support for renamed dm raids

• Tue Jan 3 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.17-1

  - fix dm operations to create/remove device nodes during each change.

• Tue Jan 3 2006 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.16-1

  - Hopefully fix raid autorun with a patch from Paul Flinders.

• Mon Dec 19 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.15-1

  - Don't open init's console with close-on-exec

• Sun Dec 18 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.14-1

  - Remove vestigial loopback support.
  - Remove email addresses from man pages (which still need some work)

• Fri Dec 16 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 5.0.13-1.1

  - bump for gcc

• Mon Dec 5 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.13-1

  - Updates for gcc 4.1

• Sat Nov 26 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.12-1

  - Fix buildreq/req for dmraid on s390
  - Typo fix from Alexandre Oliva

• Mon Nov 21 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.11-1

  - audit for open()s without appropriate closes()
  - make new functions coeOpen(), coeFopen(), and coeOpendir(). These behave
  like open(), fopen(), and opendir() except that they set any associated
  file descriptors to close on exec().
  - use them everywhere except where we open a console.

• Thu Nov 17 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.10-1

  - don't set up dmraids that aren't active in the initrd

• Wed Nov 16 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.9-1

  - dmraid support

• Fri Oct 21 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.8-1

  - don't clobber cmdline in mkrootdev (fixes runlevel selection)

• Fri Oct 21 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 5.0.7-1

  - fix new-kernel-pkg --multiboot=

• Tue Oct 18 2005 <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.6-1

  - make lvm work again

• Mon Oct 17 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.5-1

  - make PROBE, MODULES, and PREMODS load defaults from a config file
  - get rid of support for not using a dynamic /dev
  - add options to force device probes (for when PROBE is "no")
  - consolidate some duplicate code paths
  - make nash's otherCommand check PATH first and use what it finds there for
  any commands it needs to run, unless the command starts with "nash-",
  in which case the internal version is used unconditionally
  - remove the symlink hack for setuproot/preswitchroot/switchroot
  - wrap all the nash commands in mkinitrd with shell functions and use the
  "nash-" varient.
  - rework root fs creation so Jeremy can use the otherCommand feature

• Fri Oct 7 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.4-1

  - split switchroot into setuproot and switchroot, with presetuproot in
  between
  - make preswitchroot and setuproot execute through symlinks, so they may
  be replaced by a second initramfs image
  - add logic to mount filesystems specified in /etc/fstab.sys during setuproot
  - general code cleanups

• Fri Sep 30 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.3-1

  - fix root dev discovery to give us "hda3" and such again, rather than
  a full sysfs path

• Thu Sep 29 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.2-1

  - add error and quiet printf functions
  - use them instead of testing quiet and typing stderr everywhere
  - actually make _all_ errors use eprintf (and thus stderr)
  - print strerror in errors instead of raw errno
  - make "getKernelCmdLine use readFD
  - make "getKernelArg" picky about if you've got the right command vs
  just one that starts with the same string
  - make "getKernelArg" handle "=" for you, so it either gives you the value
  when there is one, '\0' when there's not and it's EOL, or whitespace.
  - reformat some two-space-indent spots
  - check for short reads in catCommand
  - kill pivotroot
  - cleaned up resume messages
  - make mkrootdev use readFD
  - combine mkdevies and makedevs into mkblkdevs, no longer
  using /proc/partitions
  - don't use callocs+memcpy/strcpy+strcat when we can use asprintf
  - make setQuietCommand use getKenrelArg
  - make runStartup use readFD
  - patch from Alexandre Oliva to fix LVM-on-RAID1 /root and swap-on-LVM
  (bz #169059)
  - reorder device creation for easier maintenance create /dev/rtc
  - change fixme comment about lvm vgs
  - use cemit at some places we used a lot of emits before
  - reorder device node creation for clarity
  - use mkblkdevs instead of makedevs and mkdevices
  - decouple loopback root and lvm

• Wed Sep 28 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.1-1

  - create /dev/rtc
  - create /dev/tty, /dev/tty{0..11}, and /dev/ttyS{0..4}
  - tweak the messages output in loud mode during device node creation

• Tue Sep 27 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 5.0.0-1

  - remove support for pivotroot
  - remove support for non-initramfs initrds
  - remove support for 2.4 kernels
  - don't force scsi_mod before scsi modules; deps should bring it in.
  same for "unknown"; it's not needed any more.
  - lots of whitespace adjustment
  - minor messaging changes
  - no manual redirection to stderr or RCFILE, nor manual verbose checking
  - in light of these changes and other planned changes, this is 5.0.0

• Mon Sep 26 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.24-1

  - Fix module discovery for raid (eleminates "find" warning as well)

• Sun Sep 25 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.23-2

  - Fix module discovery to not always use the modules /dev/hda1 requires
  when using root-on-label.
  - Put the lvm check after the raid check, so the raid check atually gets run.

• Wed Sep 21 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.22-1

  - Only scan appended kernel command line args for duplicates once.
  - handle short reads correctly in nash's readFD
  - use calloc for things instead of malloc, since we usually need zeroed memory
  and we never memset
  - use canonicalize_file_name instead of malloc+realpath
  - honor quiet flag on suspend/resume
  - autodetect storage drivers in mkinitrd

• Mon Aug 15 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.21-1

  - Fix a bug in switchroot's command line parsing (patch from mkj)

• Fri Aug 12 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.2.20-1

  - fix a buglet in root vg finding
  - support resume with swsusp

• Fri Aug 5 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.19-1

  - Fix yaboot stanza placement with a patch from dwmw2 (#142346)

• Wed Jul 20 2005 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> - 4.2.18-1

  - since udev is not in use, don't require it or claim to be starting it

• Fri Jun 24 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.17-1

  - Don't use udev or udevstart in the initrd; it's trivial to do
  all that work by looking for directories with "dev" nodes in sysfs
  and making the device from the dirname using major/minor from "dev"

• Mon Jun 6 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.16-1

  - Add a patch from Jeff Layton to remove files from the initramfs
  before executing the new init. (slightly modified, #153069)

• Tue May 17 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.15-1

  - Better init argument handling (don't mess up with serial console)

• Tue May 10 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.14-1

  - Better init argument handling (no uninitialized args)

• Fri May 6 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.13-1

  - allow for lvm VGs to be in the /dev/mapper/$VG-$LV format (#154767)

• Wed May 4 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.12-1

  - Don't copy "console=" arguments from /proc/cmdline to init

• Wed May 4 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 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

• Tue May 3 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.10-1

  - set umask explicitly

• Tue Apr 26 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 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

• Tue Apr 5 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.8-1

  - Don't consolidate duplicates in "--args" (#147222)

• Wed Mar 30 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.7-1

  - unmount what filesystems we can from the initramfs
  - close appropriate files before spawning init

• Wed Mar 23 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 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 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.5-1

  - handle mount-by-uuid for root correctly (##148756)

• Thu Mar 17 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.4-1

  - don't do vgmknodes at all for lvm

• Tue Mar 15 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.3-1

  - use --ignorelockingfailure with lvm commands in the initrd, and only
  activate the volume / is on. (#151172)

• Tue Mar 15 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.2-1

  - Fix accidental formatting of data in grub.conf (#151118,
  from proski@gnu.org)

• Tue Mar 1 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.1-1

  - typo fixes
  - one missed gcc4 fix

• Tue Mar 1 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 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 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 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 2005 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.0.2-1

  - Make getArg return NULL on cmd=NULL, fixing #144472 . Based on a
  patch from Kasper Dupont.

• Tue Jan 18 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.2.0.1-1

  - fix grubby tests to run on systems with /boot = /

• Tue Jan 18 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.2.0-1

  - grubby: add multiboot support for xen0
  - new-kernel-pkg: likewise

• Mon Dec 20 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.20-1

  - grubby: fix mac yaboot.conf updating if magicboot line is present

• Mon Nov 22 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.19-1

  - remove use of dietlibc for nash

• Wed Nov 3 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - handle machines with lots of disks in /proc/partitions (#137816)

• Sun Oct 24 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - require cpio (#136814)

• Sun Oct 17 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.18-1

  - fix UPDATEDEFAULT with new-kernel-pkg (#135997)

• Fri Oct 15 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 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)

• Fri Oct 15 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.16-1

  - mkinitrd: Sleep briefly to let udev finish creating devices

• Wed Oct 13 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 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

• Thu Sep 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.14-1

  - support changing root on the kernel command line with lvm (#133236)

• Wed Sep 22 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 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

• Fri Sep 10 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.11-1

  - more fixing

• Wed Sep 8 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.10-1

  - mkinitrd: mount tmpfs with the right permissions

• Tue Aug 31 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.9-1

  - mkinitrd: use tmpfs instead of ramfs for udev stuff

• Fri Aug 27 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.8-1

  - nash: and the hack to fix ppc broke other arches, conditionalize it (#130928)

• Wed Aug 25 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.6-1

  - nash: fix another off by one (#130987)
  - nash: hack to fix ppc booting (#130928)

• Wed Aug 25 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.com> - 4.1.5-1

  - fix zfcp handling

• Tue Aug 24 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.4-1

  - nash: create raid device if needed (think udev) before calling
  the raidautorun ioctl (#130561)

• Tue Aug 24 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.3-1

  - nash: make echo behavior consistent with other shells
  - more fixes from Steve Grubb (#129673)

• Mon Aug 23 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 4.1.2-1

  - mkinitrd: add support for zfcp devices (mainframe)

• Thu Aug 19 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.1-1

  - don't remove lost+found (#130327)
  - don't try to mount/umount /sys on 2.4 (#130298)

• Tue Aug 17 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 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

• Mon Aug 16 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 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)

• Thu Aug 12 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.0.5-1

  - nash: oops, let's try that again

• Wed Aug 11 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.0.4-1

  - nash: fix mounting by label in some cases (tracked down by
  Erik Jacobson, #129581, #129673, #129667, #129635)

• Tue Aug 10 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 4.0.3-1

  - grubby: more (hd0,0) support (#125156)
  - mkinitrd.8: update manpage (#129585)
  - nash: fix some warnings

• Wed Aug 4 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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)

• Wed Aug 4 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.0.1-1

  - improve handling of arguments to init with initramfs (#129057)

• Mon Aug 2 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 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)

• Fri Jun 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 3.5.24-1

  - fix usb-storage detection with 2.6 (#126309)

• Tue May 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 3.5.23-1

  - add support for RAID6

• Wed May 12 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - add support for multipath personality from Tom Callaway (#120379)

• Thu May 6 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 3.5.22-1

  - bump initrd size (#122325)

• Wed Apr 14 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 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)

• Tue Apr 13 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 3.5.20-1

  - mkinitrd: minor regex fix for some kernel names (#120624)

• Mon Feb 9 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 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 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - mkinitrd: add patch from Alex Kiernan for modules with multiple
  deps in 2.6 (#113306)

• Thu Jan 8 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.18-1

  - new-kernel-pkg: add a --kernel-arguments option (#113125)

• Tue Jan 6 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - fix ybin path (#112939)

• Sun Jan 4 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - mkinitrd: quiet strip by default

• Mon Dec 22 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.16.1-1

  - make stripping less aggressive

• Mon Dec 22 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - strip modules if /usr/bin/strip exists (#111756)

• Fri Dec 5 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.15-2

  - require lvm2 so that it gets installed early enough

• Fri Dec 5 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - nash: add mkdmnod for creating the device-mapper control node

• Thu Oct 2 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.14-1

  - fix dependency on /usr/bin/tail and /usr/bin/id

• Tue Sep 30 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>

  - remove one more mktemp dir for "all loopback devices in use" case

• Tue Sep 23 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.13-1

  - fix getting modules from /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates

• Mon Sep 22 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.12-1

  - argument checking and usage for /sbin/installkernel (#103109)

• Wed Sep 3 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.11-1

  - really only do grub configs on grub arches
  - some usb mkinitrd fixes

• Fri Aug 29 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.10-1

  - clean up bogus warning in installkernel
  - only try to do grub configs on arches which support grub (#103261)

• Thu Aug 7 2003 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> 3.5.9-1

  - add \n 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

• Wed Jul 30 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - grubby: don't segfault on label=\n (reported by dburcaw)

• Thu Jul 24 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - grubby: patch from zaitcev for uninitialized variable that can get
  hit in the zipl case

• Mon Jul 21 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.8-1

  - bump initrd size (#99525)

• Wed Jul 9 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.7-1

  - pick modules from /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates first
  - be less confused by more than one module of a name

• Wed Jun 25 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.6-1

  - unbreak reading module options from modules.conf again (#97982)

• Fri Jun 20 2003 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> 3.5.5-1

  - fix modules.dep usage for 2.5/2.6

• Fri Jun 20 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.4-1

  - handle more bizarre modules.conf constructs (notting)

• Thu Jun 12 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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

• Wed Jun 11 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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)

• Wed Jun 11 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.1-1

  - nash: fix syscall bits with gcc 3.3 on s390
  - new-kernel-pkg: do depmod before mkinitrd (#97218)

• Tue Jun 10 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.5.0-1

  - mkinitrd: add patch from gc@mandrakesoft.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)

• Tue May 20 2003 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> 3.4.52-1

  - use addSystemMap to build the image for iSeries (#91187)

• Fri May 16 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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)

• Wed Apr 30 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.4.50-1

  - fix typo in new-kernel-pkg for iSeries

• Wed Apr 30 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

  - BuildRequires: popt
  - Change grubby Makefile to static-link popt a bit more cleanly

• Thu Apr 24 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.4.49.1-1

  - use Arjan's suggestion of vmlinitrd for the kernel + initrd combo file

• Thu Apr 24 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.4.49-2

  - fix description referencing /etc/conf.modules (#89558)

• Thu Apr 24 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.4.49-2

  - require ppc64-utils on ppc

• Fri Apr 18 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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)

• Mon Apr 7 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.com> 3.4.48-1

  - Fix segfault on mainframe

• Wed Mar 26 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.4.44.1-1

  - fix dasd option reading

• Fri Mar 14 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com> 3.4.44

  - Added automatic dasd= parameters for kernel parameter on s390(x).

• Tue Mar 4 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.4.43-1

  - apply ppc patches for new-kernel-pkg and installkernel from Dan
  Burcaw
  - man page tweak (#85471)

• Tue Feb 18 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.4.42-1

  - grubby: fix segfault from uninitialized variable (#84128)

• Tue Feb 11 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 3.4.41-1

  - nash: add readlink
  - use readlink for rootdev to handle symlinks to root devs (#83391)

• Tue Feb 4 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>

  - change one test from a number to a string test that could otherwise
  fail in not properly setup chroot environments

• Fri Jan 31 2003 <ewt@redhat.com>

  - 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 2003 <ewt@redhat.com>

  - 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 2003 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> 3.4.36-1

  - don't error out running awk on /proc/mdstat if /proc/mdstat isn't
  there

• Tue Jan 14 2003 <ewt@redhat.com>

  - 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 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> 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 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - errno fixes

• Tue Dec 3 2002 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>

  - /sbin/new-kernel-pkg: fix a test to have correct ""

• Fri Nov 22 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - mkinitrd: more gzipped module fixes

• Thu Nov 21 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - mkinitrd: add support for finding gzipped modules
  - mkinitrd: don't be noisy if we don't have lvm-mod loaded

• Wed Nov 6 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - grubby: don't bail when looking for root in appends of lilo-style configs
  - include grubby on x86_64

• Thu Sep 26 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - fix some syntax errors
  - use grep's -q flag to save a redirect in places where we're not redirecting
  stderr

• Thu Sep 5 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - 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)

• Mon Sep 2 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - nash: create directories if needed in mkdevices command (#73090)
  - grubby: handle lilo case of non-linux default (#72202)

• Sat Aug 31 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - grubby: fix for case like 'append = " hdc=ide-scsi "' (#68802)

• Fri Aug 30 2002 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - fix firewire stuff (#72916)

• Fri Aug 23 2002 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - fix mpt fusion stuff

• Tue Aug 13 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - /boot/efi/redhat -> /boot/efi/EFI/redhat on ia64

• Sun Aug 11 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - fix grubby to work correctly on ia64

• Thu Aug 8 2002 Michael Fulbright <msf@redhat.com>

  - added sleep command to nash and fixed creating initrd with / or /boot on usb

• Tue Jul 30 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - grubby: adding kernels to lilo.conf when not using root=LABEL will work
  now too

• Fri Jul 26 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - didn't close /proc/partitions in mkdevices

• Thu Jul 25 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - grubby: fix adding kernels to lilo when using root=LABEL

• Wed Jul 24 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added and used mkdevices command (68959)

• Wed Jul 17 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - do proper probing to check root=LABEL
  - --bootloader-probe didn't support /etc/sysconfig/grub

• Fri Jul 12 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - don't sanity check root=LABEL right now; probing might make sense?

• Wed Jul 10 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - --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)

• Mon Jul 8 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - usb root device code could fail, causing no initrd to be made

• Thu Jun 27 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - grubby didn't add new kernels properly

• Thu Jun 27 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - support root on usb devices

• Wed Jun 26 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - other= in lilo.conf wasn't being parsed out properly

• Mon Jun 24 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - changed --add-kernel implementation so that --args gets handled properly

• Sun Jun 23 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - 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

• Thu Jun 13 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - 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

• Tue Jun 11 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - 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

• Mon Jun 10 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - start raid before lvm so that you can have root on lvm on raid (#66175)

• Tue Jun 4 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - failed to initialize a variable in grubby

• Fri May 31 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added --grub option so grub tests could run on ia64
  - added some basic tests of lilo default directive handling

• Wed May 29 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - require lvm

• Tue May 28 2002 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - fix umounting of /initrd when pivoting

• Tue May 28 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - marked /sbin/installkernel as %config (53006)
  - run make test during build

• Wed May 22 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added --nopivot (53679)
  - honor INSTALL_PATH in installkernel (32833)
  - installkernel versions old kernels as well (52756)
  - lilo support added to grubby

• Tue May 21 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - 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)

• Sat Apr 20 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - grubby does a better job of not adding superfluous default= lines

• Wed Apr 17 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - preload works again

• Wed Apr 10 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - revert to not mounting by label

• Fri Apr 5 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - include pbrown's changes to load parport_pc when needing ppa.o (#35360)

• Thu Apr 4 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - fix redirection bug (#62623)
  - create proper link of /sbin->/bin in initrd (#62199)

• Thu Mar 28 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - prereq dev package so that we always have the dev package before we get run

• Fri Mar 22 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - duh, that won't work. fix it
  - don't require lvm tools right now

• Thu Mar 21 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - fix nash to create directories for devices like cciss and ida

• Tue Feb 5 2002 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - run mkinitrd with -f in new-kernel-pkg
  - don't run lilo in /sbin/installkernel

• Fri Feb 1 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - require lvm

• Thu Jan 31 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - clean up warnings for when /proc isn't mounted

• Tue Jan 29 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - 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 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - 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 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - 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 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>

  - Add LVM module when LVM is used

• Wed Sep 5 2001 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - grubby shouldn't blow away default=saved lines (#52981)

• Fri Aug 31 2001 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - fix new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd for ia64

• Thu Aug 30 2001 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - fixed bug handling invalid default (MF #52889)
  - in some cases we would set the default to point at a removed image

• Wed Aug 29 2001 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - minor grubby fixes

• Tue Aug 28 2001 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - let new-kernel-pkg be able to do more (initrds, modules.*)
  - include grubby only on x86

• Mon Aug 27 2001 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - more grubby fixups for having a /boot
  - added new-kernel-pkg

• Sun Aug 26 2001 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added grubby
  - added installkernel

• Fri Aug 3 2001 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - make consoles with the correct minor numbers
  - applied patch from hjl to fix fstab parsing (#50819)

• Fri Jul 20 2001 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>

  - 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

• Wed Jul 11 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - don't print errors if /etc/raidtab doesn't exist
  - or /etc/{modules.conf,conf.modules}, for that matter

• Fri Jul 6 2001 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - 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)

• Tue Jun 26 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - require filesystem >= 2.1.0, otherwise we don't boot

• Thu Jun 21 2001 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added a bunch of commands to nash
  - use pivot_root
  - support ext3

• Fri Jun 8 2001 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>

  - delete the exclusivearch line completely

• Fri Mar 23 2001 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - reset the state of findmodule after getting the modules we need

• Wed Feb 28 2001 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - changed the Requires on mktemp from >= 1.5 to >= 1.5-5 (which included
  -d support) (#30127)

• Fri Feb 23 2001 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - 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 2001 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - add findutils to Requires line (#27269)

• Thu Feb 8 2001 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - added checks to load the modules i2o_block needs

• Wed Feb 7 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - fix utterly broken build

• Wed Jan 31 2001 Helge Deller <hdeller@redhat.com>

  - added mandir to nash Makefile (RH 6.x compatibility)

• Tue Jan 30 2001 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added dependency on mktemp

• Thu Jan 25 2001 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - we need to insert xor.o before raid5.o

• Wed Jan 24 2001 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - code in RAID_AUTORUN ioctl fallback
  - fixed raidstart check flag from -z to -n

• Tue Jan 23 2001 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - switched to using nash from sash

• Tue Jan 23 2001 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - added patch from twaugh to avoid blindly adding scsi_mod
  and sd_mod to initrd if they are not needed (#24114)

• Thu Jan 11 2001 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

  - 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 2000 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - let the kernel autoload ide-cd

• Fri Dec 8 2000 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added modular ide support

• Wed Aug 30 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - use mktemp to create temporary files and directories

• Sat Aug 5 2000 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - changes from Keith Owens for 2.4

• Tue Jul 4 2000 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - build on alpha

• Mon Jun 26 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - ignore 'unknown' aliases (they shouldn't be there anyways)

• Thu Jun 1 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - build on ia64
  - bump up initrd size on ia64
  - modules.confiscation, /usr/man -> /usr/share/man

• Tue May 2 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - make RPM pick up man page, regardless of compression

• Tue Feb 29 2000 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - add requirement for /sbin/losetup

• Mon Feb 7 2000 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - gzip manpage

• Thu Feb 3 2000 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - gzip manpage

• Mon Jan 10 2000 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - use sash, not ash

• Mon Jan 3 2000 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - use ash.static for /bin/sh, not sash

• Sat Jan 1 2000 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - configure loopback devices

• Tue Sep 28 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - sparc fixup from jakub

• Wed Sep 22 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

  - fix cleanup (blush!)

• Tue Sep 21 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

  - now works when /usr is not mounted (do not rely on /usr/bin/install)
  - slight cleanups, better usage message

• Thu Jul 29 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

  - Now automatically includes necessary raid modules
  - --omit-raid-modules now omits raid modules
  - tiny doc updates

• Thu Jul 29 1999 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - updates from bugzila (#4243, #4244)

• Sat Mar 27 1999 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - --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 1999 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - updated description

• Mon Jan 11 1999 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - 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 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

  - import from ultrapenguin 1.1.

• Tue Oct 20 1998 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz>

  - 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.

• Sat Aug 29 1998 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - replaced --needs-scsi-mods (which is now the default) with
  --omit-scsi-mods

• Fri Aug 7 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

  - correct obscure regex/shell interaction (hardwires tabs on line 232)

• Mon Jan 12 1998 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added 'make archive' rule to Makefile
  - rewrote install procedure for more robust version handling
  - be smarter about grabbing options from /etc/conf.modules

• Mon Oct 20 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - made it use /bin/ash.static

• Wed Apr 16 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - 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 1997 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

  - 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.