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- Changes in 1.40:
- * Increase A20M delay and put in a test to avoid problems on
- certain IBM Thinkpads (thanks to Donnie Barnes of RedHat
- for vital info on this one.)
- * Support COMBOOT style boot command images.
- * Support chain loading (foreign operating systems, e.g. DOS).
- * Include a new "copybs" DOS utility to copy a boot sector to
- a file (under Linux, use "dd".)
- * Fix the DOS installer to work for disks over 32 MB.
- * SYSLINUX should now handle disks with more than 65536 tracks.
-
- Changes in 1.37:
- * Fix a bug that caused "label" statements in syslinux.cfg to
- not be handled properly.
- * Updated the documentation. Among other things, we now allow
- up to 128 "label" statements.
-
- Changes in 1.36:
- * Fix for booting old (pre-initrd) kernels.
- * It seems at least some versions of OS/2 doesn't set up all
- the fields in the superblock correctly. Account for that.
- * Fix bug that caused boot failure when using the mem= option.
-
- Changes in 1.35:
- * Loading from partitions now should work properly. (Actually
- tested, this time. You should even be able to dd a floppy
- to a partition and boot from it.)
- * Removed large workaround code for an alleged ancient BIOS
- bug I have never actually seen. The -s option should work
- on those machines, anyway.
- * Support for simple keyboard remappings, same as used by
- LILO (once again to support localization.) The program
- keytab-lilo.pl from the LILO distribution included to
- generate such maps.
- * Added a "safe, slow and stupid" (-s) option to the
- installers. This option will lobotomize the boot sector to
- hopefully work on even very buggy BIOSes.
-
- Changes in 1.34:
- * Ability to load a VGA font on bootup (for localized Linux
- distributions.)
-
- Changes in 1.33:
- * Bug fix in the Linux installer.
- * Added a workaround for a bug in certain AMI/Intel BIOSes
- when booting from CD-ROM.
- * Documentation changes.
-
- Changes in 1.32:
- * FAT16 filesystems are now supported.
-
- Changes in 1.31:
- * Now compiles under Linux, using NASM, rather than using
- Turbo Assembler under DOS. See http://www.cryogen.com/Nasm
- for information about NASM.
- * Linux-hosted SYSLINUX installer, as well as a
- rewritten DOS installer (now is written in assembler, so we
- don't need Turbo C.)
-
- Changes in 1.30:
- * Added support for loading bzImage and initrd loading, and made
- SYSLINUX new-setup-code aware (SYSLINUX 1.30 id=0x31).
- * Added LILO-style kernel labels; see the LABEL and IMPLICIT
- keywords in README file.
- * Added support for colorization of intro and help screens.
- * The vga= option is now handled correctly.
- * Massive rewrite of large chunks of the code in order to
- support the first two new features.
-
- Changes in 1.20:
- * Added simple online help at the "boot:" prompt.
- * Removed 2880K image as I no longer have access to such a
- floppy drive. (Donations accepted!!)
- * Decided to distribute the source in a subdirectory rather
- than in a nested zipfile.
-
- Changes in 1.11:
- * Removed a sanity check which would cause booting to fail on
- Phoenix BIOS version 4.03. Apparently this BIOS is buggy.
-
- Changes in 1.10:
- * Added configuration file SYSLINUX.CFG. This file contains all
- configurable options, and can be edited from any OS which can
- access an MS-DOS filesystem; there is no longer a need to run
- SYSLINUX.EXE except to write the boot sector.
- * Default command line now given by "default" line in config
- file.
- * LINUXMSG.TXT and BOOTMSG.TXT hard-coded file names replaced by
- "display" and "prompt" lines in config file.
- * LILO-style option appending now supported ("append" line in
- config file).
- * Prompt timeout is now supported ("timeout" line in config
- file). The timeout is cancelled when anything is typed on the
- command line.
- * Pressing <ESC> or <Ctrl-C> at the Loading... stage now aborts
- the kernel loading in progress and returns the user to the
- boot: prompt.
- * The installer now automatically sets the READONLY flag on
- LDLINUX.SYS.
- * Added 2880K disk image.
-
- Changes in 1.03:
- * Fixed bug that would prevent booting from double-density
- floppies and other DOS filesystems with multiple sectors per
- cluster.
- * Added 720K disk image.
- * Changed default kernel name on disk images to LINUX.
-
- Changes in 1.02:
- * Fixed bug that would garble the command line on recent kernels
- with more than 4 sectors of setup code (this wasn't really a
- *bug*; rather, a kernel change broke the code. Unfortunately
- the Linux boot interface is still sorely undocumented).
- * Added BOOTMSG.TXT file support (message file which does not
- force display of the boot prompt).
-
- Changes in 1.01:
- * Fixed bug on some (most?) 386 BIOSes would require two boot
- attempts.
-