Changes from version 22.1 to 22.2 (05-Feb-2002) John Coffman
Boot Installer
--------------
- Fix bsect.c compilation problem (l.241) on newer GCC libraries
- Add "suppress-boot-time-BIOS-data" flag to config file
- Add LVM support patches, courtesy of Andreas Dilger:
<adilger@users.sourceforge.net>
- Make sure image descriptor is zeroed to start
- Fix 'lilo -p' segfault with password=explicit
- Fix 'lilo -q' to handle relocated boot sectors on floppies
Boot Loader
-----------
- Add a video mode set to mbr.S and first.S to accomodate Dell/
Windows XP disabled video on startup
- Add mt_flag to KEYTABLE menu area for automatic suppression
of bios data collection in case of failure
- Vary placement of initrd: (memory <= 64M) ==> load below 15M,
whereas (memory > 64M) load just above 64M; use int 15h, fn's
E820 & E801 to determine memory size > 64M
- DELL_DIRTY_HACK enables video with int 10h, fn=12h, subfn=36h
- Shorten read.S by making 1 mov AX into mov AH
- Fix first.S pread to use index buffer at 0x7E00, not 0x0200
- Limit BIOS data collection for HD to # drives returned by
fn 8, dev 80h (in DL)
Chain Loader
------------
- Fix bug in CHANGE / MAP-DRIVE interaction when change is to
other than boot drive
Utilities
---------
- Add a video mode set to disk.S to accomodate Dell/Windows XP
disabled video on startup
- Add pauses between stages of output to make reading easier
- Add "$(OBJS): mylilo.h" dependency to Makefile
- Add 'diagnose' directory with version 2 of the disk diagnostic
- Add LGPLicence for Robert de Bath's code
- Limit diagnostic 2.0 probe for HD to # drives returned by int 13h
fn 8, dev 80h (in DL)
Changes from version 22.0.2 to 22.1 (31-Oct-2001) John Coffman
Utilities
---------
- Add version 1.0 of 'mkrescue'
Boot Installer
--------------
- Support 4 more SCSI controllers & IBM iSeries v.disk.
- Add M-Systems Disk-On-Chip devices 62(?) and 93
- Fix bug in 'part_verify' to correct partition mask.
- Passwords use SHS (FIPS PUB 180-1) 160-bit hash or 64-bit CRC-32
- RAID1 relocations now check for files within the boot Raid
partition.
- Correct operation of -I flag; add option "r" (now "i" & "r")
- Strengthen "part_verify" to disallow installing on secondary
partitions (in addition to primary partitions) other than Linux
partitions
Boot Loader
-----------
- Allow variable number of Descriptor Sectors (DSECS=n)
- Load second-stage loader using single sector map segment; removes
size constraint on second-stage loader (15->~100 sectors).
- First-stage loader avoids BPB area -- doesn't clobber FAT16 --
unless DSECS>5.
- RAID1 sector address relocation performed only if flagged.
Changes from version 22.0.1 to 22.0.2 (13-Oct-2001) John Coffman
Compilation
-----------
- Fix 'partition.c' to compile with 2.4.12 kernel headers
- Fix compilation bug to allow omission of -DBDATA from Makefile
DISK.COM utility
----------------
- Add BIOS data collection VERBOSE diagnostic.
Changes from version 22.0 to 22.0.1 (02-Oct-2001) John Coffman
Boot Installer
--------------
- Fixed password security hole to create 'lilo.conf.crc' with
mode 0600 (not 0644).
Changes from version 21.7.5 to 22.0 (29-Aug-2001) John Coffman [released 9/27]
Boot Installer
--------------
- Passwords are now hashed using a CRC-32 checksum. Allows
for a full pass-PHRASE
- Using password="" (null string) will trigger interactive pass-
phrase input; such passphrases persist until -p switch is used
to force re-creation of CRC save file: 'lilo.conf.crc'
- Password options expanded. Now there are 'mandatory', 're-
stricted', and 'bypass', strongest to weakest. 'mandatory'
remains the default.
- The config file parser now handles garbage input with a good
diagnostic, rather than an unexpected parse.
- RAID installations now create a single map file, install the
boot record on the RAID partition, install auxiliary boot
records only on MBRs if needed, except BIOS device 0x80. Back-
ward compatibility is possible with new config-file and command
line options (raid-extra-boot= or '-x' switch). Even with
stored boot command lines ('-R', lock, fallback), RAID set
coherency can be maintained.
- Add the '-A' switch to activate a partition. Replaces activate.c.
- Add the '-M' switch to allow restoration of a Master Boot Record.
- Allow 'loader=' in the global section of config file.
- Add 'bitmap=' to specify a 640x480x16 bitmap file to be used as
a splash screen upon booting. RGB (uncompressed) and RLE (com-
pressed) Windows/OS2 bitmaps are supported.
- Add 'bmp-table=', 'bmp-colors=', and 'bmp-timer=' to support posi-
tioning and color specification for bitmap screens.
- Modify 'bmp-X' input routines to allow pixel addressing (in addition
to the character addressing).
- Use bios data from boot-time to help identify bios device codes.
- Add 'geometric' and the '-g' switch to specify sector/head/cylinder
disk addressing.
- Add LBA32 compile switch, and make it the default: 'lba32' is now
assumed, unless 'geometric' or 'linear' is specified.
- Raid scans 'raid_disks + spare_disks'
- Add HPT370 controller (major device 114)
Boot Loader
-----------
- os2_d.b may now be obsolete with extensive checking added
to chain.b to see if it should fill in bytes 24 & 25 in the
boot record
- boot-bmp.b generated to display bitmapped boot screen
- read.S updated to allow #heads==256 (bios not IBM-compliant)
- disk.S updated to 1.4 to account for #heads==256 (hosed bios)
- second.S updated to allow for EBDA > 64k
Changes from version 21.7.4 to 21.7.5 (26-Apr-2001) John Coffman
Boot Installer
--------------
- Correct DAC960 partition mask -- again.
Chain Loader
------------
- Reverse map device code if "map-drive" is in effect
Changes from version 21.7.3 to 21.7.4 (10-Apr-2001) John Coffman
Boot Installer
--------------
- Issue warning when CHANGE AUTOMATIC is to be inserted.
- Correct DAC960 partition mask.
Boot Loader
-----------
- Fix password timeout security hole which allowed booting with-
out entering a password.
Changes from version 21.7.1 to 21.7.2 (20-Mar-2001) John Coffman
(issued as "patch-21.7.1-to-21.7.2-diff.txt)
Boot Installer
--------------
- Add several devices supported by the 2.4.2 kernel only
- Bugfix for -I switch
Changes from version 21.7 to 21.7-1 (08-Mar-2001) John Coffman
(issued as "patch-21.7-to-21.7.1-diff.txt")
Boot Installer
--------------
- Makefile is simplified to remove 'filesize.c'
- New devices are added (Compaq), and ide5 is made to work
- A new diagnostic is added for when the '-r' switch is used
- Raid update for devfs support
Changes from version 21.6.1 to 21.7 (24-Feb-2001) John Coffman
Boot Installer
--------------
- Added code to 'do_cr_auto' to account for 'devfs' specifications
- Corrected code for -u/-U switches to make argument optional
- Fix for I2O major block device (SCSI raid)
- Expanded 'default=' error message
- Fix to strip <cr> from 'lilo.conf' to accomodate DOS text files
- Changed & expanded setup of serial line parameter specifier
Boot Loader
-----------
- Accepts new serial line parameter and supports higher baud rates
Changes from version 21.6 to 21.6.1 (16-Dec-2000) John Coffman
Boot Installer
--------------
- Bug fix to make '-r' and '-s' swithes work correctly.
- Bug fix for automatic change-rules to work correctly.
- Re-order some includes for glibc-2.2 compilation.
Boot Loader
-----------
- Added compile time option 'HP_TTRC' to add a 150ms delay
to boot process to accomodate HP TTRC card.
Changes from version 21.5.1 to 21.6 (01-Oct-2000) John Coffman
License
-------
- Corrects license wording problems by issuing all code and
documentation under a BSD license.
Boot Installer
--------------
- Supports booting from Reiser FileSystem 3.6.18 and later,
without the need to mount 'notail'.
- Added -T diagnostic capability, which includes real-mode
bios tests. "make floppy" is still supported for patho-
logical installations.
- Updated default change-rules. Added "change/automatic"
facility, as well as automatic generation of change-rules in
the abscence of "change" keyword.
Boot Loader
-----------
- Dynamically determines where second-stage loader is loaded,
thus allowing maximum room for kernel setup.S real-mode
code.
- First-stage loader no longer relocates itself.
Changes from version 21.5 to 21.5.1 (24-Aug-2000) John Coffman
Boot Loader
-----------
- Perl script keytab-lilo.pl updated for problem static decls
- Corrected assertion of DTR/RTS at all serial bitrates
Boot Installer
--------------
- Fix for RAID segmentation fault if boot= is not specified
- Fix for RAID to allow enough characters in expanded names
Changes from version 21.4.4 to 21.5 (17-Jul-2000) John Coffman
Boot Installer
--------------
- Now recognizes the option `table=<letter>' to support
booting OS/2 or DOS-like systems from a secondary partition.
- Supports `menu-title=<string>' and `menu-scheme=<color-spec>'
to all customization of the Boot Loader menu-driven user
interface (see Boot Loader, below).
- Updated man-pages (lilo and lilo.conf) for all new features
(and even some older ones).
Boot Loader
-----------
- Completely new menu-driven user interface. Preserves backward
compatibility with command line interface on console or serial
terminal. Menu title may be specified in 'lilo.conf'. Menu
color scheme may be customized on VGA, but is fixed on MDA.
- Passes cmdline to kernel in Setup.S, not bootsect.S, if kernel
header is 0x0202 or greater. Uses old bootsect.S method for
0x0201 kernels and earlier
- Uses significatly less memory, none above 0x099200, to account
for large Extended BIOS Data Areas of up to 27K. Allows for
considerable growth in kernel's Setup.S code.
- Default compile is without LARGE_EBDA, so zImages up to 512k
may be loaded.
Chain Loader
------------
- The OS/2 chain loader, `os2_d.b', now correctly sets parameters
for booting OS/2 from an extended partition. This requires use
of a new form of the `table=' option.
DISK.COM utility
----------------
- The .asciz pseudo-op has been removed so that the utility will
assemble under earlier versions of the as86 assembler.
- Now reports EBDA information.
Changes from version 21.4.3 to 21.4.4 (10-Jun-2000) John Coffman
Map Installer
-------------
- Added a minor RAID patch from Richard Bollinger: 'lilo-21_4_3.also'
http://www.elliott-turbo.com/lilo/
- Expand COMPACT/LINEAR warning message to include COMPACT/LBA32
Boot Loader
-----------
- LARGE_EBDA option now loads second stage loader at 800:0000, and
position of command line is changed; makes room for 512K kernels
to be loaded low.
- Minor optimizations when ES is reloaded (PUSH/POP) vs (mov thru AX)
- Serial line now turns on DTR/RTS at initialization
- Minor bugfix in numeric conversion (k/K-suffix)
DISK.COM utility
----------------
- The disk.com utility no longer requires 'nasm' to assemble. The
source code now makes the diagnostic floppy with "make floppy".
Changes from version 21.4.2 to 21.4.3 (06-May-2000) John Coffman
Map Installer
-------------
- Added RAID patches from 'lilo.raid1.also' from Richard Bollinger
http://www.elliott-turbo.com/lilo/lilo.raid1.also
Changes from version 21-3 to 21.4.2 (12-Apr-2000) -- John Coffman
Boot loader
-----------
- bugfix in 'read.S' that disabled the combination 'linear' with
'compact' ( '-l' and '-c' together).
- fixed numeric convesions; kernel accepts octal, decimal, and hex, so
octal is now recognized by the boot loader.
- bugfix patch where ES segment prefix was ommitted (RHL 'second.patch')
- bugfix for compilation with 'LARGE_EBDA' option which caused command
line passed to the kernel to be truncated at 78 characters
Map installer
-------------
- RHL6.2 loopdev updates added
Changes from version 21 to 21-3 (24-FEB-2000) -- John Coffman
----------------------------- <johninsd@san.rr.com>
Boot loader
-----------
- will boot from disks up to 2048Gb in size, as long as the BIOS allows
the Enhanced BIOS calls for 32-bit sector addressing using packet calls.
- checks if BIOS supports packet calls (int 0x13, AH=0x42), and uses
these calls if 'lba32' was specified. Otherwise, it uses
the C:H:S addressing scheme of the original IBM-PC BIOS.
- the disk read routine is separated into its own source file, "read.S",
which is included in the first-stage, and second-stage loader codes.
The first stage loader uses a very stripped down read routine, since it
only deals in single sector transfers.
- if BIOS does not support 32-bit packet calls, and the cylinder address
overflows when the 32-bit address is converted to C:H:S, then a "9f"
error code is issued.
Map installer
-------------
- added the '-L' command line switch and 'lba32' configuration file
global option.
- map compaction of 'lba32' addresses is supported with the existing
'-c' switch (or 'compact' configuration file global option).
- floppy disks now will always fall back to C:H:S addressing.
- changed the -v option to now accept a single digit to set the verbosity
level; e.g., 'lilo -v 5 ...' replaces 'lilo -v -v -v -v -v ...'
for maximum diagnostic output.
- LILO version information is moved to the file 'version.h', and VERSION
is now deleted. This allows for tracking of VERSION_MAJOR (=21) and
VERSION_MINOR (=3) for this and future code paths.
BIOS tester
-----------
- Inspired by 'dparam.com', a much more extensive BIOS test program is
included with this version. Called 'disk.com', it was developed
under DOS, and requires 'nasm' to be assembled.
- DISK.COM will probe the BIOS for disks supported by the BIOS, and report
on their CHS geometry. If EDD is supported, the EDD geometry is also
reported. If disks with cylinder numbers of 1024 or above are detected,
it will issue a recommendation to use LILO with the 'lba32' option.
- Creation of the bootable floppy image version of this utility is in-
complete at this time.
Changes from version 20 to 21 (5-DEC-1998)
-----------------------------
Boot loader
-----------
- cylinder calculation could overflow when using LINEAR (fix by Jonas
Aaberg and an anonymous contributor)
- first-stage loader code begins with the byte 0xFA (a CLI instruction).
This works around the "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" blue screen bug of
Windows NT 4 (reported by too many people to mention)
- new build-time option LARGE_EBDA to load boot loader in the 0x8xxxx area
instead of the 0x9xxxx area (disabled by default; problem reported by
Josef Moellers)
Map installer
-------------
- new build-time option USE_TMPDIR to honor TMPDIR when creating temporary
devices (disabled by default)
- now only 0x1b6 bytes of the boot sector are overwritten, which preserves
the passwords DR DOS stores there (fixed by Roy Millar)
- -u and -U accidently implied -v
- "BIOS drive 0xNN may not be accessible" warning was printed in cases
where the drive code was never used (fixed by Andries Brouwer)
- change rule for DOS16_big incorrectly used DOS16_small_hidden when
hiding (fixed by Anthony Richardson)
- RESET in CHANGE-RULES did not remove default rules (fixed by Kurt
Garloff)
- added support for Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID controllers (by Leonard Zubkoff)
- added support for third to sixth IDE interface
- build-time option READONLY was not used properly
- fixed a few harmless compiler warnings
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- user's guide claimed that partitions are hidden by setting the highest
bit in the type (i.e. 0x80). The correct value is 0x10, which is also
what is used in the code.
- removed useless (and potentially harmful) DEFAULT_PATH from
keytab-lilo.pl (fixed by Andries Brouwer)
- consistency of build-time options is now checked before build starts
- QuickInst has now limited knowledge of multi-disk configurations
- doc/Makefile: added targets user.ps and tech.ps
- user's guide still claimed that kernels can't be larger than 512 kB
(reported by Jean-Albert Ferrez)
- weird description of the purpose of option BEEP (reported by Tom Toffoli)
Changes from version 19 to 20 (20-JUN-1997)
-----------------------------
Boot loader
-----------
- now supports 19200 bps and 38400 bps on the serial line (UNTESTED)
- when reaching the end of the command line buffer, input is ignored
instead of being treated like [Enter] (by Martin Mares)
- fixed numerous bugs in patching of heap end pointer in setup.S (by Martin
Mares)
- images can now optionally be launched with a single keystroke (no [Enter]
required)
- now supports non-US keyboard layouts
Map installer
-------------
- DISK sections may now also define non-disk devices, e.g. /dev/ram
- increased debug level for the "Caching device ..." message
- changed the chain loader format to allow sizes > 512 Bytes
- chain loader now supports arbitrary drive mappings (option MAP-DRIVE)
- chain loader now supports arbitrary partition table modifications (option
CHANGE)
- removed the configuration option REWRITE-TABLE
- removed the build-time options FIX_TABLE and HIDE_DOS
- added the global configuration option CHANGE-RULES plus sub-options
RESET, TYPE, NORMAL, and HIDDEN
- OTHER sections have new configuration option CHANGE plus sub-options
PARTITION, SET, ACTIVATE, and DEACTIVATE
- OTHER sections have new configuration option MAP-DRIVE with sub-option TO
- now only 0x1b8 bytes of the boot sector are overwritten, which preserves
some magic numbers NT stores there
- compiles with 2.1 kernels (asm/boot.h problem - reported by many people)
- should also compile under 0.93 or such again (required NORMAL_VGA etc.,
which didn't exist back then)
- lilo -q now prints unknown VGA modes also in hex (by Martin Mares)
- option SINGLE-KEY to allow single-key activation
- -Wno-parentheses is no longer needed
- didn't complain if image label was equal to alias
- removed some ancient dead code
- new option KEYTABLE to specify non-standard keyboard mappings
- PS/2 ESDI disk (/dev/eda and /dev/edb) support (by Andrew Kroll)
- geometry.c:last_dev now only probes for the first two IDE disks
- because chain.b is used for everything anyway, specifying the chain
loader when booting from a driver other than the first one is no longer
mandatory
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- changed all references to nic.funet.fi to ftp.funet.fi
- updated the user's guide and did some restructuring (many changes)
- QuickInst no longer puts ramdisk=0 into lilo.conf
- QuickInst now consistently checks for LILO >= version 15
- make clean and make spotless now also remove dump.s and dump.b (by
Martin Mares)
- changed package names from lilo[.part].<version> to
lilo[-part]-<version> for compatibility with sunsite's archive
maintenance scripts
- new tool keytab-lilo.pl to generate LILO keyboard tables
- updated t2a.pl to a version compatible with Perl 5
- READONLY implicitly turns off REWRITE_TABLE
Changes from version 18 to 19 (21-MAY-1996)
-----------------------------
Boot loader
-----------
- new compile-time option to beep after displaying "LILO"
Map installer
-------------
- common.h broke compilation if CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL is enabled
- no longer tries to interpret dollar signs and such in comments
- check for too many images didn't work (patch by Andries Brouwer)
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- removed some "dead" targets in Makefile
- stopped using -N, because recent binutils link statically then
- INCOMPAT no longer promises that REWRITE_TABLE will be fixed in
version 19
Changes from version 17 to 18 (16-MAY-1996)
-----------------------------
Boot loader
-----------
- added ability to load data (e.g. kernels) at addresses >= 0x100000
- added support for loading an initial RAM disk
- any_*.b became too big when using REWRITE_TABLE
- included trimmed sector read function for first.S by Ted Ts'o
- now prints spaces before error codes
- temporarily removed support for REWRITE_TABLE
- added support for heap size indication to kernel setup.S
- added compile-time option XL_SECS for extra large disks
Map installer
-------------
- new option INITRD to load an initial RAM disk
- added support for "big" kernels (> 0.5 MB compressed), which are loaded
directly at 0x100000
- long quoted strings can now be distributed over several lines using
a backslash
- environment variables are accessible in lilo.conf with $name or ${name}
- now properly identifies attempts to map from NFS and such
- refuses to overwrite unsuitable partitions
- caches device names and numbers, thereby significantly reducing the
number of readdir and stat system calls (typically, the total number of
system call decreases by about 80%)
- temporarily removed support for REWRITE_TABLE
- geometry.c:exists now opens devices read-write in order to avoid
reading from CD-ROM devices (patch by Alain Knaff)
- added a warning if COMPACT is used with LINEAR
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- documentation, QuickInst, and on-line usage information no longer mention
the disktab file (a DISK section should be used instead)
- mkdist now uses the VERSION file
- distribution now includes .lsm file
- LILO is now compiled without -O2
- updated FTP references and rewrote them to conform to RFC1738
Changes from version 16 to 17 (19-DEC-1995)
-----------------------------
Boot loader
-----------
- changes for FALLBACK and new map section structure (see below)
- LCF_READONLY now disables the LOCK option (and FALLBACK too)
- added command-line option kbd to preload keyboard buffer
- write errors are now reported (Wxx)
- chain loaders now support changing the active partition (enabled with
REWRITE-TABLE)
- chain loader can also "un-hide" a DOS partition if its partition type
has been changed by OS/2 BM (build-time option FIX_TYPE)
- when enabling HIDE_DOS in addition to FIX_TYPE, DOS partitions (except
for the one being booted) are hidden, just like OS/2 BM does (build-time
option HIDE_DOS)
Map installer
-------------
- added FALLBACK option to change default command line before booting
the current image
- added REWRITE-TABLE option to patch partition table at boot time
- added REWRITE_TABLE build-time option to enable REWRITE-TABLE
- added DISK section flag INACCESSIBLE to mark disk as inaccessible for
the BIOS so that the map installer can refuse bad mappings
- options and fallback sectors are now at the beginning of map sections
- -q and -R were accidentially marked as optional in usage
- fixed incorrect partition check for other = <non-root>
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- changed LILO version numbers to always be of the form <number> instead
of 0.<number>
- README now also contains the version number
- make install now strips /sbin/lilo instead of trying to strip /sbin
- various bug fixes in QuickInst
- added file VERSION containing the current version number and new
make target version to rename ../lilo to ../lilo-<version>
- changed a footnote which yielded an asterisk at the end of a command
line in the ASCII README
- -q and -R were accidentally marked as optional in command-line
descriptions
- mentioned -D option in command line description
- new section "System overview" in the user's manual and several minor
additions
- a few minor corrections and addition of unusual error messages
- the last traces of "old-style" configuration have been removed
Changes from version 15 to 16 (26-FEB-1995)
-----------------------------
Boot loader
-----------
- added register dump boot sector (dump.S) for debugging
- chain loaders now clear BP. This might help in some cases where DOS
refused to boot.
Map installer
-------------
- really fixed -R this time
- now suggests to "use a DISK section" (instead of disktab) if HDIO_REQ
fails
- removed incorrect error message when using a disktab
- added check to detect CD-ROMs with major numbers of hard disks
- no longer complains about corrupt partition table if 3D address is
smaller than linear address and (3D) cylinder is 1023 (OS/2 does
is this way)
- LOADER is now required when booting an operating system from any device
than the first hard or floppy disk
- changed header protection macros from _xxx_H_ to xxx_H
- added (untested) support for 2nd IDE controller (major 22)
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- user.tex is now compatible with LaTeX 2e (\textfont0 problem)
- tech.tex now avoids \SetFigFont (LaTeX 2e again)
- /sbin/lilo is now optimized and stripped when installing
- ASCIIfied "Booting basics" section
- removed all references to the old directory structure
- added description of LOCK in config file
- updated FD TMC-1680 warning
- added reminder to re-run /sbin/lilo when modifying partition tables
- updated list of kernel options
- added detailed description of >2 disks and >1024 cylinders
- added description of putting /boot on a DOS partition
- reordered sections in "Installation and updates"
- updated tech.tex
Changes from version 14 to 15 (23-OCT-1994)
-----------------------------
General
-------
- upon popular demand, a copyright notice has been added
Boot loader
-----------
- now also drains the keyboard type-ahead buffer
- new command-line option "lock" to make the specified command line the
default for the following boots too
- default command line execution can now be interrupted in prompt mode too
Map installer
-------------
- fixed -R arguments handling bug
- fixed -P argument handling bug
- fixed yet another recursion problem with /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd
- added option -D and configuration variable DEFAULT to specify the
default image without changing the oder of entries in /etc/lilo.conf
- added configuration variable LOCK to make the specified command line the
default for the following boots too
- added disk geometry configuration in the general configuration file.
/etc/disktab is now considered obsolete.
- added option -w and configuration variable NOWARN to disable some
warnings
- added warning when putting the boot sector on a non-boot disk
- added warning for possibly inaccessible devices (e.g. third disk)
- added warning for disks/partitions with more than 1024 cylinders
- added warnings for bad permissions of the configuration file
- fixed handling of floppies in geo_open_boot
- removed erroneous call to part_verify when booting other systems
from files
- added support for variable-size setup segments as supported by kernels
>= 1.1.43
- restructured verbosity levels
- allowed escaping of backslashes in quoted strings (/etc/lilo.conf)
- /sbin/lilo -q -v now displays all settings
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- lots of things have been restructured
- many changes to describe the current Linux environment
- "new" directory structure is now the default
- README is now generated from user.tex by a Perl script
- lots of minor corrections and clarifications
- added a copyright notice and adapted several comments
- QuickInst: updated default kernel names
- QuickInst: now runs /sbin/lilo -t before trying to install
- doc/Makefile: removed extra "Label(s) may have changed" output
- disktab: changed header comment and added second example line
- /etc/disktab is no longer automatically created by make install
- linking /etc/lilo/install -> /sbin/lilo is no longer suggested
- removed mkbindist. I don't think anybody used it anyway.
Changes from version 13 to 14
-----------------------------
Map installer
-------------
- added a few missing closedirs to device.c:scan_dir
- added detection of directory loops to device.c:scan_dir and
geometry.c:last_dev
- fixed handling of dangling links in /dev
- new option -u [ device ] to restore boot sector. Unsafe mode with -U
- fixed/improved usage message
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- QuickInst: did not write "other" sections to configuration file
- QuickInst.new: improved handling of disks without active partitions
- QuickInst.new now knows about /etc/disktab (relict from Shoelace,
still in some distributions)
- QuickInst.new now uses *_d.b chain loaders when configuring non-Linux
systems on the second disk
Changes from version 12 to 13
-----------------------------
General
-------
- BSS is no longer cleared by LILO, because the kernel itself does
that now.
- added support for the new directory structure. Makefile and QuickInst
come in .old and .new versions. See INCOMPAT for details.
- removed support for unstripped kernels. Therefore, mkck is no longer
part of the distribution.
Boot loader
-----------
- added missing seg es override to UI_MAGIC check at "input".
Map installer
-------------
- new options LITERAL and APPEND.
- the root setting is no longer being shown on -q -v
- the configuration file may now contain quoted strings in which spaces
and equal signs do not have to be escaped.
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- fixed bug in QuickInst that prevented correct renaming of the config
file when ROOT is set.
- added comment to disktab indicating that it is typically not needed.
- distributed files are now readable for group and other.
- mkdist is now included in the distribution.
- changed the name of kernels from "(traditional) boot image" to
"kernel image".
- changed the name of the string passed to the kernel from "command
line" to "parameter line".
- removed obsolescent terms "rootimage" and "bootimage".
- fixed documentation bug claiming only kernels can be protected by
passwords.
- fixed some additional minor documentation errors.
Changes from version 11 to 12
-----------------------------
Boot loader
----------
- removed accidential swapping of A:/B: when swapping C:/D: from
the chain loader.
- added new chain loader any_b.b (swaps A:/B:)
- fixed incorrect handling of drive number resetting in swapping
versions of the chain loader.
- now generates diagnostics when failing to load the second stage
loader.
- new compile-time option NO1STDIAG to disable these diagnostics.
Map installer
-------------
- fixed stat/fstat when creating temporary devices.
- subdirectories of /dev are now recursively searched for disk devices
in addition to /dev
- devices are now counted by highest device number, not by name.
- some minor fixes.
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- QuickInst now warns if there is an obsolete LILO boot sector on
the MBR.
- QuickInst is now prepared to handle symbolic links hda -> sda
- other minor fixes to QuickInst.
- removed all references to compound unstripped kernels from the
user's guide.
- activate is now compiled as a stripped, statically linked, impure
executable.
- fixed a few minor omissions in the technical overview.
Changes from version 10 to 11
-----------------------------
Boot loader
-----------
- added on the fly patching of the BIOS disk parameter table to
fix the "Error 0x04" observed on some systems.
Map installer
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- floppy devices are no longer opened at all when using the UNSAFE
option in OTHER.
- fixed partition table checking.
- new option -V to display the version number.
- INSTALL = /etc/lilo/boot.b is now the default if INSTALL is
omitted.
- new compile-time configuration option NOINSTDEF to restore the old
semantics of INSTALL.
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- QuickInst no longer asks whether to change the active partition if
installing LILO as the MBR.
- QuickInst now suggests configuring other operating systems if
installing LILO as the MBR.
- added a version check to QuickInst.
- added de-installation instructions.
- fixed a few minor documentation bugs.
- added script mkbindist that generates a minimal binary distribution
of LILO.
Changes from version 9 to 10
----------------------------
Boot loader
-----------
- added support for read-only setting of root.
- new chain loader os2.b to load OS/2 from the second disk.
- new chain loader any_d.b to load BIOS-based operating systems
(e.g. PC/MS-DOS) from the second disk.
Map installer
-------------
- removed support for old-style configuration.
- removed the dump option -D
- removed support for not-compound unstripped kernels.
- limited partition checking to hard disks and primary partitions.
- -C now accepts - for standard input.
- -P now has sub-options "fix" and "ignore". New configuration
variable "ignore-table" coresponds to "-P ignore"
- added automatic backup of the partition table when fixing it.
- new configuration variables "readonly" and "read-write" to change
read-only mounting of root.
- made partition offset field in /etc/lilo/disktab optional.
- added tentative support for XT-type hard disks.
- improved some error messages.
- some minor fixes.
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- changed many "echo"s in QuickInst to "cat"s.
- suggesting using a symbolic link to lilo for /etc/lilo/install.
- removed the configuration option NOAUTO.
- split the documentation in a user's guide and the technical
overview.
- removed all references to older versions of LILO, the kernel or
other programs.
- removed all references to old-style configuration and not-compound
unstripped kernels.
- using the fullpage style.
- removed and "ascified" anew the shared sections of README and the
LaTeX documentation.
- some minor corrections.
Changes from version 8 to 9
---------------------------
Boot sector
-----------
- can now get the command line from the map file and overwrite
that sector.
- passes the word "auto" on the command line if booting after a
timeout.
- new command-line option vga={ask,normal,ext,extended,<number>}
to alter the VGA mode on the fly.
- image name matching can now be made case-insensitive (default)
- added sanity checks for the second stage loader and the
descriptor tables.
Map installer
-------------
- added new compound unstripped kernel format.
- -r is now implied if the environment variable ROOT is set.
- new option -I to translate a label name (e.g. obtained from
BOOT_IMAGE) to the path of the kernel image.
- new variable MESSAGE to define a startup message.
- new variable UNSAFE to bypass sanity checks and floppy spin-up
when defining other operating systems.
- new variable ALIAS to define a second label name.
- new variable RESTRICTED to confine password protection to
invocations with parameters.
- added a missing #include <sys/stat.h> to map.c
- fixed the BIOS_MAX_* parameters in lilo.h
- removed too restrictive cylinder number check.
- new option -R to set/clear the default command line in the
map file.
- added verification of 3D and linear address equality of
partition starts (in the partition table).
- suppressed outputting the version string when using -D with -v
- "vga=extended" can now be abbreviated to "vga=ext".
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- added a test for broken regexp in sed, grep and egrep to
QuickInst. Other minor improvements.
- now uses build-time configuration variables in Makefile or
/etc/lilo/config.defines
- copied section "LILO start messages" from doc.tex to README
- removed the description of a floppy test installation from
README. (doc.tex never contained that part.)
- fixed some minor documentation errors and omissions.
- fixed some minor Makefile bugs.
- included the LaTeX translations of the FIG files.
- moved the "Technical overview" to the end.
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.
Changes from version 6 to 7
---------------------------
Boot sector
-----------
- supports video mode and RAM disk size settings.
- loads original boot sector to make possible additional settings
available.
- now uses defaults from the boot sector even if the boot sector
has been changed after map creation.
Map installer
-------------
- new configuration based on /etc/lilo/config
- can get SCSI geometry without using /etc/lilo/disktab (doesn't
work with 0.98pl6)
- removed support for BIOS codes (name:code)
- removed support for setting the swap device.
- new command-line options: -q, -C and -D
Documentation
-------------
- updated to cover new-style configuration
- extended the plain-ASCII README
Changes from version 5 to 6
---------------------------
Boot sector
-----------
- added command-line argument passing.
- now clears BSS of traditional images too.
- chain.b is now more careful about register values when invoking
the boot sector of the other OS.
- added an interface for externally provided command lines.
- added experimental recognition of linear addresses.
Map installer
-------------
- fixed opening the disktab file. (Using -f didn't work.)
- fixed use of BIOS codes for the map file: the tilde is now appended
before the BIOS code.
- added a chdir("/") when using -r
- added more sanity checks.
- added generation of linear addresses.
Documentation
-------------
- removed all references to swap device settings in the kernel because
recent kernels don't support that any longer.
- added a troubleshooting section.
- several minor fixes and improvements.
Changes from version 4 to 5
---------------------------
Map installer
-------------
- added automatic boot sector backup.
- fixed variable block size detection. (Didn't work with the 0.97-pl2
kernel.)
- added the chroot (-r) option.
- made the partition table part of a foreign OS boot descriptor
optional.
Documentation and installation
------------------------------
- most of README has moved into doc.tex (LaTeX)
- added a utility to activate a partition.
- make install now reminds the user to update the map.
- dd is now used in a more efficient way in the Makefile.
(Fewer subshells, etc.)
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.
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.
Changes from version 1 to 2
---------------------------
Boot sector
-----------
- added command-line editing.
- added debugging support (-DDEBUG).
- added support for compacted maps.
- some cosmetic changes.
Map installer
-------------
- major rewrite.
- files that contain "holes" are now handled properly.
- added map compaction.
- devices are now created on the fly only if they can't be found in /dev.
- improved sanity checking.
- can now boot other operating systems.
- can now boot unstripped kernel executables.
- added support for a disk parameter file.
- reduced the number of installable images from 21 to 19.
- changed the command-line syntax.
- root and boot can now be specified on the command line.
Documentation
-------------
- many changes, including correction of some minor errors.
Changes from version 0 to 1
---------------------------
Boot sector
-----------
- tested as master boot record.
- improved the boot prompt invocation method.
- increased the number of installable images to 21.
- added a help facility.
- improved read error handling and error reporting in the boot loader.
- added a second stage boot loader.
Map installer
-------------
- fixed some minor bugs in the map installer. Removed all compiler
warnings.
- added labeling of images.
- added version checking for the boot sector.
- replaced option -r by -m. -r will be available for a while for
compatibility.
- added booting from device files (that have boot images written on them).
- BIOS device codes can now be specified for boot image files too.
- added concatenation of images. (This is a test feature that will be
changed in the future.)
Documentation
-------------
- some minor documentation errors have been corrected.
- the README now warns that the map has to be rebuilt after the images are
replaced or moved.
- added a files, a hints and an examples section.