- Issued:
- 2005-10-05
- Updated:
- 2005-10-05
RHEA-2005:479 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
yaboot enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated yaboot package that includes the "IBM,RPA-Client-Config" note
required by newer hardware and support for Linux software RAID is now
available.
Description
The yaboot package is a bootloader for Open Firmware-based PowerPC
machines. It can be used to boot IBM pSeries machines.
IBM pSeries machines require that boot images include a "PowerPC" note and
an "IBM,RPA-Client-Config" note in the ELF program header. Current versions
of firmware do not object to the lack of the "IBM,RPA-Client-Config" note.
Future versions of firmware may experience the following errors with such
boot images: the firmware may refuse to boot the image, or the firmware may
assume that the image does not support LPAR (logical partitions) or shared
processors.
This version of yaboot also supports software RAID, allowing multiple boot
partitions in ybin and booting off a mirrored /boot partition (software RAID1).
All PowerPC yaboot users are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which creates the note and resolves this issue.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
Fixes
(none)CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
yaboot-1.3.12-7.2.src.rpm | SHA-256: 4aea85f9268d4d872f18cf69d4f1778db3dff9f8bb36caa47c1824769ed9d2c1 |
ppc | |
yaboot-1.3.12-7.2.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 335662244ba4d223436ebf7859aabbbac56807e6956c3883e256389b3d23f892 |
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