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- ===== Changes from BootLin 1.3 to 1.4 =========================================
- It's not really here now, because Linux doesn't like it yet, but
- the main new functionality is that you will be able to boot Linux directly
- from the DOS command line.
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- ===== Changes from BootLin 1.2 to 1.3 =========================================
- Added a check of the boot sector to be a REAL BIOS BOOT SECTOR. This
- will avoid, I hope, to try to boot with everything, and more especially with
- the system executable, like one of my friends did...
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- BootLinux now sets the memory to zero before loading the image. With
- this linux hangs less often.
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- If the name given on the command line refers to no real file, then
- you are prompted for a new file name, until the name is correct. This should
- allow, for those using multiple kernels, the use of only one command line in
- the config.sys to boot whatever version of linux they want.
-
- Sorry, I could not avoid Bootlin.com to be more than 1K this time !
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- ===== Changes from BootLin 1.1 to 1.2 =========================================
- I think I have now corrected the bug that hung some computers and
- made everyone have garbage in place of the "Press <RETURN> to see SVGA modes".
-
- If the ROOT device number is not defined, it allows you to choose
- it within some devices.
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- It has a far more simple command line parsing routine. That allowed
- to save about 33% of the size, which in turn allowed the new BootLinux to
- be smaller than the old one. Drawback: no checking is done. Anyway,
- it has the same syntax than the previous BootLinux.
-
- I now give a MASM source !
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