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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: LILO: Version Alpha.4
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.215046.22143@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:50:46 GMT
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- A new alpha test version of LILO can be found on reggae.oit.unc.edu in
- pub/pc-stuff/Linux/Incoming as lilo.s.4.tar.Z and lilo.b.4.tar.Z
-
- lilo.s contains source, documentation and support files.
- lilo.b contains pre-compiled binaries without source, documentation
- and support files. /lib/libc.2.2.2 is needed to run the pre-compiled
- executable of the map installer.
-
- (I've also deleted an older, now really obsolete versions.)
-
- This release contains many minor improvements. The most important ones
- are a configurable boot delay, a tool to determine SCSI disk parameters
- and some protection against weird include file conflicts.
-
- The beginning of the CHANGES file is at the end of this posting.
-
- A few people have reported problems when trying to boot other operating
- systems (usually MS-DOS) with LILO, while others report that everything
- works. I haven't solved the problem yet, but I'd suggest to use BOOTACTV
- (or any other boot switcher) as a temporary work-around, where needed.
-
- - Werner
-
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-
- Changes from version 3 to 4
- ---------------------------
-
- Boot sector
- -----------
-
- - added a configurable delay.
- - added a diagnostic title message.
-
- Map installer
- -------------
-
- - fixed all known include file conflicts.
- - added support for variable block sizes. (Not used yet.)
- - added some more sanity checks.
- - added a tool to determine SCSI disk parameters.
-
- Documentation and installation
- ------------------------------
-
- - extended coverage of SCSI disks.
- - make install now backs up chain.b and boot.b of any older LILO
- installation. (To say: your system remains bootable even if you
- forget to run /etc/lilo/install after the update or if this fails
- for some reason.)
- - moved the changes section from README into CHANGES.
- - a set of pre-compiled executables of lilo, boot.b, chain.b and
- dparam.com is available too.
- --
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