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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: ANNOUNCE: LILO 0.8 released
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.104202.3469@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Keywords: LILO, boot loader, new version
- Sender: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:42:02 GMT
- Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
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-
- LILO 0.8 is on sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/Incoming and it will be soon
- on tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/lilo. The files are
-
- lilo.8.tar.Z source and documentation
- lilo.8.ps.Z documentation in PostScript format
-
- Highlights of this version: quick installation script, password protection
- of boot images, remote operation over a serial line, full support of disk
- parameter detection for SCSI disks (supported by 0.99 kernels for all but
- the Seagate and Ultrastor adapters).
-
- There are a lot more minor fixes and improvements. The relevant section of
- the CHANGES file is at the end of this posting.
-
- The quick installation script should help avoiding some common mistakes
- made during installation. It's not perfect and a bit on the restrictive
- side, but it should be good enough to help getting a solid base configura-
- tion. For the more advanced features, there's of course no way around the
- documentation.
-
- Future plans: 0.9 shall be mostly a maintenance release without any major
- new features. It will be quickly followed by 1.0, which will be identical
- but won't have any backwards-compatibility code and the documentation
- won't mention older versions of LILO or pre-1.0 kernel versions anymore.
-
- - Werner
-
- ---------------------------------- cut here -----------------------------------
-
- Changes from version 7 to 8
- ---------------------------
-
- Boot sector
- -----------
-
- - now supports password protection for boot images.
- - fixed occasional omission of delays.
- - passes the name of the boot image to the kernel, which stores
- it in the environment variable BOOT_IMAGE.
- - parameters are now preserved when trying to boot the same
- image again after a media error.
- - the command line is preserved on error.
- - can be operated from a serial line.
- - made timeout handling interrupt-driven to fix time-wrap problems
- at midnight.
- - now clears all bytes after text and data of traditional boot
- images booted from a file.
-
- Map installer
- -------------
-
- - added detection of missing HDIO_REQ support.
- - added sanity checking for disk parameters.
- - fixed BIOS code computation for SCSI disks.
- - command-line settings can now override /etc/lilo/config
- - defaults for ROOT, VGA, RAMDISK, PASSWORD and OPTIONAL can be set
- in the options section.
- - new option PROMPT to unconditionally enter the boot prompt.
- - new option TIMEOUT to specify an input timeout.
- - new flag OPTIONAL to specify that an image can be omitted if it
- isn't present.
- - new value CURRENT for ROOT to specify the "current" root device.
- - special characters are now correctly escaped in dumps.
- - temporary files are now removed on error.
- - updated the usage output to reflect the changes since 0.6.
- - added a missing closedir to device.c
-
- Documentation and installation
- ------------------------------
-
- - wrote a quick installation script.
- - fixed many small documentation errors.
- - wrote a README for the doc directory.
- - added descriptions of the configuration parameters passed in
- the boot sector and of the kernel's command-line interface.
- - Makefile now explicitly uses /bin/sh
- - changed echo \c to echo -n in the Makefile
- - added ability to print the name of the active partition to
- activate.
-
- --
- _________________________________________________________________________
- / Werner Almesberger, ETH Zuerich, CH almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch /
- /_IFW_A44__Tel._+41_1_254_7213___________________________________________/
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