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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: LILO: Version Alpha.3
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.235955.23383@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:59:55 GMT
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- A new alpha test version of LILO can be found on
- banjo.concert.net as pub/Linux/Incoming/lilo.3.tar.Z
-
- It works with 0.96c-pl1 and 0.96c-pl2 (and newer) kernels and doesn't
- need a kernel patch anymore.
-
- It contains some bug fixes, some minor improvements and an extensive
- documentation about boot configurations. Therefore, the README may be
- worth reading even if you don't want to install or update LILO.
-
- Things that didn't make it into this release:
- - booting other operating systems from non-A: and non-C: drives
- - better SCSI support
-
- The beginning of the README is at the end of this posting. Even if
- you've already read an older LILO README, you might want to read the
- "Booting basics" section.
-
- I'm still interested to hear about success or failure to boot other
- operating systems with LILO. MS-DOS 4.0 and 5.0 and DR-DOS 6.0 have
- been reported to work, but I'd love to hear about different operating
- systems or versions, especially OS/2.
-
- As usual, I'm thankful for all bug reports, success stories, etc.
-
- - Werner
-
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-
- LILO - Generic Boot Loader for Linux ("LInux LOader") by Werner Almesberger
- =============================================================================
-
- This is an ALPHA test release of a new boot loader. Be sure to have some
- means to boot your system from a different media if you install LILO on your
- hard disk.
-
-
- WARNING: The formats of the boot sector and the map file have changed again.
- If you've already installed LILO on your system, you have to update
- the boot sector and create a new map file.
-
-
- Changes from version 2 to 3
- ---------------------------
-
- Boot sector
- -----------
-
- - can initialize BSS of unstripped kernels.
- - also accepts [Tab] to show the list of known images.
-
- Map installer
- -------------
-
- - fixed parsing of the root device specification.
- - fixed setting of the root device when the boot image doesn't
- define it.
- - reduced the number of installable images from 19 to 16. (Because the
- descriptors have grown.)
-
- Documentation
- -------------
-
- - added a booting basics section.
- - many minor changes.
- --
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