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Moved to Github

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:09 GMT

Jakob Schlyter is now maintaining Flashboot at Github. If you want an up to date version, please head over there.

flashboot-4.0 released

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:13 GMT

Jakob Schlyter and Rickard Dahlstrand have completed and released flashboot-4.0. This release is based on OpenBSD 4.0 and introduces the new version numbering scheme that directly follows OpenBSD releases. Flashboot binary releases are available, and now include disk images that can be written directly to flash media.

Beta flashboot based on 4.0-stable

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:52 GMT

Jakob Schlyter and Rickard Dahlstrand have been very busy improving flashboot over the last six months. They are kindly making available a binary flashboot release based on OpenBSD 4.0-STABLE and they need your help testing a beta release. Please report your finding to the flashboot mailing list. Thanks!

flashboot-1.0beta1 released

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 02:00 GMT

OpenBSD CVS head has switched from 3.9-current to 4.0-beta, so I have made a flashboot-1.0beta1 release. This has been tested on the Soekris NET4501, Commell LE564 SBC, iBase FWA7204 and PC Engines WRAP. The binary distribution includes kernels for all these (the same kernel is used for the Commell LE564 as the iBase FWA7204). The binary distribution also includes a GENERIC kernel and one for the Soekris NET4801, which I was not able to test for lack of hardware. Some additional changes in this release:

Add ipw(4) and iwi(4) wireless devices
Add support for ipsectl(8) and ipsec.conf
Many build system fixes and improvements, including support builds as non-root with $SUDO set
Removed deprecated utilities: ipsecadm(8) and spppcontrol(8)
Add tcpdrop(8), rdate(8) and rtsold(8)

flashboot-1.0alpha1 released

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:00 GMT

Released flashboot-1.0alpha1. This adds a kernel configuration (and pre-build kernel in the binary distribution) for the PC Engines WRAP boards. This was made possible by PC Engines' unsolicited donation of a WRAP 1C board - thanks! Also in this release is: support for /flash to be mounted read/write (by specifying it that way in fstab), the addition of a rc.init that is called early in the boot process and an update of the underlying OS to OpenBSD 3.9-current.