1 grml2usb (0.9.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Do not use '-' in the directory name for the linux kernel to allow
5 * Introduced --remove-bootoption in grml2usb to delete existing
9 * Sync and add grml2usb-compat to grml2usb package. This simplifies
10 installation as well as use for developers and users.
12 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:02:10 +0200
14 grml2usb (0.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Modified syslinux configuration handling to generate new vesa
19 * Support adding additional isos to existing grml2usb installation.
20 * grml2iso supports new grml2usb using syslinux now.
23 * Update documentation regarding syslinux and FAT32 (thanks to
24 Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com> for the hint).
25 * Changes with regards to Ulrich's work:
26 - Add a check to identify old ISOs which do not ship
27 a default.cfg file and abort then. We have to break
28 backward compatibility, otherwise the isolinux/syslinux
29 code would become worse than it's already nowadays.
30 - Search for isolinux files in /boot/isolinux/ so the
31 correct grml.png is used.
32 - Support setting bootoptions in syslinux.cfg
33 * Drop duplicated boot=live references in kernel cmdline.
34 * Apply patch from Thorsten Glaser which prepares code for
36 * Raise CriticalException if filesystem.module, kernel or
37 initrd are not present.
38 * Avoid the "file is read only, overwrite anyway (y/n) ?"
39 question of mtools by syslinux.
40 * Inform user when using grub as bootloader.
41 * Make syslinux the default bootloader (drop --syslinux,
42 add --grub instead). Grub fails just too often.
44 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:25:57 +0200
46 grml2usb (0.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Replace 'logging.*("%s" % foo)' with 'logging.*("%s", foo)'
49 so the logging works with python2.6 as well.
51 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:21:06 +0200
53 grml2usb (0.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Improve handling the 'No space left on device' situation through
56 using an according rsync handler function.
58 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:05:30 +0200
60 grml2usb (0.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Support the directory where the grml2usb script resides as base
63 directory so /usr/share/grml2usb isn't necessarily needed.
64 Thanks for the patch to Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth <leo@strike.wu.ac.at>!
65 * Make sure grub.conf isn't a symlink but a plain file instead,
66 otherwise it will break on FAT16 filesystems. This works around
67 grub-install of (at least) Fedora 10.
68 Thanks for the patch to Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth <leo@strike.wu.ac.at>!
69 * Use 'pci=nomsi' in failsafe bootoption. Thanks to Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt.
70 * Mention the --syslinux option if grub-install fails.
71 * Fix usage of --force in combination with --fat16. Thanks to
72 Johannes Endres and Reiko Kaps for the bugreport.
73 * Replace hint to '--grub' with 'grub'.
74 * New option --grub-mbr which allows installation of grub in MBR instead
75 of installation into a partition (PBR) which is necessary when using grub2.
77 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:12:54 +0200
79 grml2usb (0.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Use ascii.pf2 as grub2 font, since grub2 (1.96+20090307-1)
82 the old ascii.pff isn't available anymore.
83 * Use terminal_output if available, otherwise fallback to old
84 older 'terminal'-command (thanks to Felix Zielcke for helping).
85 * Document the 'grub-setup fails after Attempting to install GRUB
86 to a partition instead of the MBR' issue.
87 * Use "set gfxpayload=1024x768x16,1024x768" instead of vga=791 in
88 grub2 configuration. This requires a recent version of the linux
89 loader as the new linux loader loads the kernel at 32bit entry point
90 and not at 16 bit anymore so it has to be translated for the Linux
91 kernel (as the kernel parses vga= in 16 bit code). In the long run
92 we don't seem to have another option, so let's change it.
93 Thanks to Felix Zielcke and Robert Millan for first hand information.
94 * Increase timeout from 5 to 10 seconds in grub2 configuration.
95 * Load memtest86+ binary via 'linux16' in grub2 (otherwise it fails).
96 * Drop the serial boot entry from grub2 (I assume users with usb
97 pens don't need that option).
98 * Change the way MirOS bsd4grml is loaded (use the fallback method
100 * Improve descriptions of grml's grub2 entries.
101 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3 (no further changes).
102 * Fix creation and installation of grub1's configuration file (menu.lst).
103 Thanks to Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe.
105 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:53:51 +0200
107 grml2usb (0.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Support installation on /dev/loop*-devices.
110 * Generate configuration for syslinux and grub by default, no
111 matter which bootloader the users chooses.
112 * Added options --skip-syslinux-config and --skip-grub-config
113 if someone wants to skip the generation of any bootloader
115 * Make sure grub-install is available before executing it.
116 * Display information about default grml flavour and the other
117 available grml flavours at the end of the grml2usb run.
118 * Use /sbin/blkid (e2fsprogs) instead of vol_id as vol_id is going to be
119 removed from udev. Thanks for the patch to Andras Korn!
120 * Use rsync instead of cp. Thanks for the patch to Andras Korn!
122 * Use 'forensic' and 'readonly' in the forensic bootoption itself.
123 * Spelling fixes (thanks to Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org>).
124 * Write GRUB2 config even if the target is a directory (thanks, Thorsten)
125 * All these "set root=" are not needed for GRUB2 (thanks, Thorsten)
126 * Switch order of check whether the specified device is a directory
127 and check for usb device (as the usb device check will fail if
129 * Add grml2iso for creating a bootable DVD:
130 - thanks once more to Thorsten Glaser for helping and patches
131 - thanks to Ernesto Domato for reporting the issue regarding
132 i386<->amd64 with grub-mkimage
133 * Move syslinux check to install_syslinux_mbr()
134 * Drop the reference to --grub option (thanks for the bugreport
136 * Update documentation:
137 - mention the dd approach
139 - improve section link names for the online version
140 - add 'grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem'
141 * Support use with python version 2.4.
142 * Bump Standard Version to 3.8.2 (no further changes).
143 * Depend on debhelper >=5 (using compat version 5).
145 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:01:50 +0200
147 grml2usb (0.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Fix typo in manpage of grml2usb (thanks to Wernfried Haas).
150 * Fix bootoption toram: it should be toram=$FLAVOUR.squashfs instead
151 of toram=$FLAVOUR. Thanks to Wernfried Haas and Frank Prochnow
152 for the bugreport and debugging! [Closes: issue680]
154 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:32:13 +0200
156 grml2usb (0.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Support installation of the currently running grml live
159 system ("grml2usb /live/image /dev/sdx1").
160 * Add "persistent" entry to grub/syslinux menu. [Closes: issue669]
162 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Wed, 20 May 2009 19:32:02 +0200
164 grml2usb (0.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Fix dashes of options in manpage (thanks for the bugreport,
168 * Display program version during execution.
169 * Apply fix by Peter Daum <gator@cs.tu-berlin.de>, making sure
170 to use the normalized path for unmounting. Thanks!
171 * Use 'multiboot' for booting MirOS BSD when using grub2.
172 * Catch exception if copying files fails.
173 * Make sure to exit if installing grub fails.
174 * Integrate hdt (Hardware Detection Tool) in bootsplash (but
175 only if using syslinux as grub isn't supported).
177 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 22:31:30 +0200
179 grml2usb (0.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Bugfix: move kernel commandline from initrd to kernel option in
182 generate_flavour_specific_grub2_config().
184 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:04:56 +0200
186 grml2usb (0.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Drop some leftover 'lang=us' references.
189 * Update mbr.S (thanks, Thorsten Glaser).
190 * Rename --mbr-manager into --mbr-menu (people seem to be confused
191 what this option does). Improve the according documentation.
192 * Update failsafe bootoption.
193 * Fix comments section in manpage (thanks for reporting,
194 Alexander Steinböck).
195 * Mention the Debian package in the error message (thanks to
196 Lothar Speil for the bugreport).
197 * Mention grml-repository in the docs.
198 * Support older kernel versions in check for removable usb device.
199 (Thanks to Ralf Gross for the report and relevant information.)
200 * Also add specified bootoptions to default entry in configuration
201 file of grub version 1. (Thanks to Ralf Gross for the bugreport.)
202 * Make sure that options "--quiet" and "--verbose" aren't accepted
203 at the same time in the command line. Thanks for bugreport and
204 code example, Karl Voit!
205 * Bump Standard Version to 3.8.1 (no further changes).
206 * Set debhelper's compat version from 4 to 5.
208 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:09:46 +0200
210 grml2usb (0.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Rewrote grml2usb from scratch (in python). New features:
213 - you no longer need to setup the device via /etc/fstab, just
214 directly invoke "grml2usb /path/to/iso /dev/sdb1"
215 - initial multi-iso / multi-boot support
216 [Closes: issue501] [Closes: issue584]
217 - provide *several* new options like --bootloader-only,
218 --bootoptions=... check out the manpage for all the details
219 - get rid of "polution" of root directory on usb-pen
221 - always write a default MBR (thanks a lot to the work
222 and help of Thorsten Glaser!) [Closes: issue295]
223 - use grub by default (but support for syslinux is present as
225 - fix regressions for temporary mountpoints / wrong directories
226 [Closes: issue603] [Closes: issue602]
227 * Update debian stuff:
228 - Bump Standard Version to 3.8.0 (no further changes)
229 - Change XS-Vcs-* to Vcs-* headers and replace mercurial with
230 grml's nowadays git repository URLs
231 - drop mtools from depends
232 - slightly improve long description
233 - add asciidoc, xsltproc and docbook-xsl to Build-Depends
234 - either depend on syslinux | grub2 | grub
236 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:40:55 +0100
238 grml2usb (0.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Fix problem with comment chars in /etc/fstab.
241 Thanks for debugging and the patch to Robert Euhus!
242 * Some minor cleanups in Debian packaging.
244 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Sun, 25 May 2008 01:29:30 +0200
246 grml2usb (0.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Support new directory layout of different grml-flavours
249 * Fix uninstall option (really clean up usb device)
251 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:43:57 +0100
253 grml2usb (0.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Fix the "mv: cannot move `/mnt/usb-sdb1/boot/grub' to a subdirectory of
256 itself, `/mnt/usb-sdb1/grub'" issue.
258 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:57:08 +0100
260 grml2usb (0.7.8) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Adjust grml2usb for a present grub directory.
264 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:29:20 +0100
266 grml2usb (0.7.7) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Improve error handling for execution of syslinux.
270 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:38:31 +0200
272 grml2usb (0.7.6) unstable; urgency=low
274 * The "reworked grml2usb for JUXLALA"-release.
275 * Added fs check via vol_id.
276 * Improved error handling.
277 * Fixed some code parts regarding use of $TMPMNT.
279 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:07:09 +0200
281 grml2usb (0.7.5) unstable; urgency=low
283 * supporting directories and direct blockdevices as source for the iso.
285 -- Michael Gebetsroither <gebi@grml.org> Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:28:19 +0200
287 grml2usb (0.7.4) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Get rid of bashism, thanks for reporting - Paul Weaver!
290 * Change version schema from x.y-z to x.y.z.
292 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:43:49 +0100
294 grml2usb (0.7-3) unstable; urgency=low
296 * The manpage was just a template, added the missing documentation
297 now. Thanks for reporting, Jens Heidrich!
299 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 11:08:30 +0100
301 grml2usb (0.7-2) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Use 'Architecture: all' in debian/control so we can use the
304 package on non-x86 as well.
305 * Bumb Standard Version to 3.7.2 (no further changes).
307 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:46:35 +0100
309 grml2usb (0.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Use different exit codes for different code parts, and quote
312 $ISO, thanks - Richard Hartmann!
313 * Remove unused configure lines in debian/rules.
315 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 23:48:46 +0100
317 grml2usb (0.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Allow overwriting of $TMPMNT.
321 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:50:58 +0200
323 grml2usb (0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
325 * bailout if mounting of target device failes.
327 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:47:01 +0200
329 grml2usb (0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Check for existence of syslinux before running the script.
332 * Updated copyright file (new fsfs address).
334 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:02:53 +0200
336 grml2usb (0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Added uninstall option.
339 * Improved error handling and its output.
340 * Added colors to improve manual text parsing.
342 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:19:28 +0100
344 grml2usb (0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Improved usage information.
348 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:35:20 +0100
350 grml2usb (0.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Changed 'cp -a' to 'cp -dR --preserve=mode,timestamps' so we don't
353 get the ownership-permission-warnings.
355 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:02:22 +0200
357 grml2usb (0.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Fixed small typo (SYSDEV/TMPDEV) [thanks for hint, tklauser!].
361 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:50:32 +0200
363 grml2usb (0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
367 -- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:31:04 +0200