- Issued:
- 2010-03-30
- Updated:
- 2010-03-30
RHBA-2010:0316 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
yaboot bug fix and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated yaboot package that fixes a bug and adds an enhancement is now
available.
Description
The yaboot package is a boot loader for Open Firmware based PowerPC
systems. It can be used to boot IBM eServer System p machines.
This updated package fixes the following bug:
- previously the ybin binary returned exit code 1 even if there was no
error message on output. (ybin returned exit code 0 if "ybin --verbose" was
run with the same config file.) With this update ybin now returns exit code
0 when there is no output error message, as expected. (BZ#515778)
This update also adds the following enhancement:
- the initrd chunksize was reduced for this update. This change allows
yaboot to support init ram disks larger than 8192kB. (BZ#562956)
Note: previously, if yaboot attempted to use an initrd image larger than
8192 kB, booting failed with an "RAMDISK: ran out of compressed data" error
message. Once this updated yaboot package is installed, using larger initrd
images with yaboot will work as expected.
All PowerPC yaboot users are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which resolves this issue and adds this enhancement.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 515778 - wrong return value from ybin
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
yaboot-1.3.13-10.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 83d4f4c86b55195e4e45ad91b09b2638620850e8c52dda4618c8e251030de47c |
ppc | |
yaboot-1.3.13-10.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 18078d7472f6e3656262427e1217705270dc964e1ef8a4e16dcd1fb4e378c17a |
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