boottool and Linux::Bootloader provides a generic interface for
detecting the installed bootloader, updating bootloader config files and
for performing boot-once to a given kernel. Supported bootloaders
include grub, lilo, yaboot, and elilo.
Release 1.2 adds experimental boot-once support for Elilo, and several
bug fixes for issues found when setting boot-once on Grub.
The purpose of this release is to support the integration of this into
Martin Bligh's Autotest, that we plan to help with next week. This
gives us a solid point to build from in order to achieve that objective.
Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=47517&package_id=189767
(or from CPAN, via `cpan -i Linux::Bootloader`)
ChangeLog:
1.2 Fri Sep 8, 2006
Bryce:
- Updated packaging for 1.2 release
- Fix make test issue in add_default() when passed invalid data
Judith:
- Move the default configuration files into the modules and out
of the
boottool script. Also updated 'boottool' to read and write
calls without passing config file arg.
- Tidy up some warnings with debug comparasons, and with Grubs
boot once option.
- Initialize params only in parent 'new'.
JasonN:
lib/Linux/Bootloader/Elilo.pm:
- added experimental boot-once support using patched eliloalt
lib/Linux/Bootloader.pm:
- added root parsing back in _info, somehow removed earlier
- fixed couple syntax errors from previous commit
Comments:
* Systems that have had lilo installed on grub may not detect properly.
* We still do not support boot-once for yaboot. We greatly need
assistance in finding a solution to this.
* There is a corner case in the grub boot-once capability where an
invalid input may lead to a default boot of the entry at position 0.
For this release we've added a warning; we hope to have a more
complete fix in the next release.
Bryce
