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99 lines
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LILO 20 can be found at
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ftp://lrcftp.epfl.ch/pub/linux/local/lilo/lilo-20.tar.gz
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and soon also at
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ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo-20.tar.gz
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ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/lilo/lilo-20.tar.gz
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On sunsite and lrcftp, there are also pre-built PostScript versions of the
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user's guide and of the technical overview:
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ftp://lrcftp.epfl.ch/pub/linux/local/lilo/lilo-t-20.ps.gz
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ftp://lrcftp.epfl.ch/pub/linux/local/lilo/lilo-u-20.ps.gz
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ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo-t-20.ps.gz
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ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo-u-20.ps.gz
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Since the last release, more than one year ago, quite a few changes have
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accumulated. The most important ones:
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- compiles with 2.1 kernels
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- is nice to NT
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- almost arbitrary partition table manipulations are possible (that's
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the successor of FIX_TYPE and HIDE_DOS)
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- allows for non-US keyboard maps
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Given the large number of changes, this version should be considered as
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"beta" and be used with due precautions.
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I've attached the complete list of changes.
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- Werner
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Changes from version 19 to 20 (20-JUN-1996)
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Boot loader
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- now supports 19200 bps and 38400 bps on the serial line (UNTESTED)
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- when reaching the end of the command line buffer, input is ignored
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instead of being treated like [Enter] (by Martin Mares)
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- fixed numerous bugs in patching of heap end pointer in setup.S (by Martin
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Mares)
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- images can now optionally be launched with a single keystroke (no [Enter]
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required)
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- now supports non-US keyboard layouts
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Map installer
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- DISK sections may now also define non-disk devices, e.g. /dev/ram
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- increased debug level for the "Caching device ..." message
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- changed the chain loader format to allow sizes > 512 Bytes
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- chain loader now supports arbitrary drive mappings (option MAP-DRIVE)
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- chain loader now supports arbitrary partition table modifications (option
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CHANGE)
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- removed the configuration option REWRITE-TABLE
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- removed the build-time options FIX_TABLE and HIDE_DOS
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- added the global configuration option CHANGE-RULES plus sub-options
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RESET, TYPE, NORMAL, and HIDDEN
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- OTHER sections have new configuration option CHANGE plus sub-options
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PARTITION, SET, ACTIVATE, and DEACTIVATE
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- OTHER sections have new configuration option MAP-DRIVE with sub-option TO
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- now only 0x1b8 bytes of the boot sector are overwritten, which preserves
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some magic numbers NT stores there
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- compiles with 2.1 kernels (asm/boot.h problem - reported by many people)
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- should also compile under 0.93 or such again (required NORMAL_VGA etc.,
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which didn't exist back then)
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- lilo -q now prints unknown VGA modes also in hex (by Martin Mares)
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- option SINGLE-KEY to allow single-key activation
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- -Wno-parentheses is no longer needed
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- didn't complain if image label was equal to alias
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- removed some ancient dead code
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- new option KEYTABLE to specify non-standard keyboard mappings
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- PS/2 ESDI disk (/dev/eda and /dev/edb) support (by Andrew Kroll)
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- geometry.c:last_dev now only probes for the first two IDE disks
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- because chain.b is used for everything anyway, specifying the chain
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loader when booting from a driver other than the first one is no longer
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mandatory
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Documentation and installation
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- changed all references to nic.funet.fi to ftp.funet.fi
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- updated the user's guide and did some restructuring (many changes)
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- QuickInst no longer puts ramdisk=0 into lilo.conf
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- QuickInst now consistently checks for LILO >= version 15
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- make clean and make spotless now also remove dump.s and dump.b (by
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Martin Mares)
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- changed package names from lilo[.part].<version> to
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lilo[-part]-<version> for compatibility with sunsite's archive
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maintenance scripts
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- new tool keytab-lilo.pl to generate LILO keyboard tables
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- updated t2a.pl to a version compatible with Perl 5
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- READONLY implicitly turns off REWRITE_TABLE
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