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1 Starting with 1.47, changes marked with SYSLINUX/PXELINUX/ISOLINUX
2 apply to that specific program only; other changes apply to all of
3 them.
5 Changes in 3.71:
6 * Workaround for a VESA BIOS which tries to make DOS system
7 calls(!!)
8 * Simple menu: fix navigation around disabled entries
9 (or at least try to...)
10 * EXTLINUX: proper error message when confused about mount
11 point.
12 * MEMDISK: be smarter about incompletely disabled floppies in
13 the BIOS and about being the only BIOS.
14 * Optionally allow initrd to be specified on a separate line
15 rather than as part of the "append" line. This is not
16 recommended, but apparently makes life easier for some
17 tools.
18 * SYSLINUX: if no config file is present, set the current
19 directory to the root directory (Sebastian Herbszt.)
20 * chain.c32: option "hide" to support hiding and unhiding of
21 primary partitions on the boot drive with DOS, Win, or OS/2
22 partition types (01, 04, 06, 07, 0b, 0c, 0e).
23 * Unbreak the KBDMAP command (broken in 3.70).
24 * EXTLINUX: fix the handling of the ADV when using CBIOS.
25 * ifcpu64.c32: simple COM32 module to select a 32- or 64-bit
26 kernel (and optionally 32-bit kernels with or without PAE.)
27 Eventually we want a scripting language for this
28 kind of stuff; a Lua module is under development.
29 * Fix parsing of the SERIAL command without a baud rate
30 specified.
31 * chain.c32: error out when try to boot an unbootable
32 partition.
33 * SYSLINUX: when building the Win32 installer, search for
34 MinGW under a large number of possible names.
36 Changes in 3.70:
37 * PXELINUX: Support enhanced capabilities when running on top
38 of gPXE (http://www.etherboot.org/). In particular, support
39 URL-style syntax for filenames, and any protocol that gPXE
40 supports (except, currently, iSCSI and AoE.) This feature
41 is currently highly experimental.
42 * Substantial infrastructure changes to support files whose
43 length aren't known at open time (typically network
44 connections.) Please note that the semantics of some of the
45 comboot APIs have changed slightly; please see doc/comboot.txt.
46 * PXELINUX: We no longer require a TFTP server which supports
47 the tsize option for all transfers.
48 * PXELINUX: Integrate with the gPXE source base; unified image
49 now included as "gpxelinux.0".
50 * The source tree has been restructured; files that were
51 previously in the root have moved into the core, dos, gpxe,
52 and utils directories.
53 * "make install", "make netinstall", and "make extbootinstall"
54 have been updated massively. "make install-all" now installs
55 all three.
56 * Change default dir for auxiliary files from
57 /usr/lib/syslinux to /usr/share/syslinux.
58 * SYSLINUX: VFAT long filename support.
59 * MEMDISK: Any image less than 4096K (4 MB) is treated as a
60 floppy disk. The geometry-guessing code will recognize all
61 common extended formats, but it is still possible some very
62 exotic formats need geometry specification. Large floppies
63 and very small harddisks still need explicit specification.
64 * chain.c32: option "swap" to support swapping of BIOS drive
65 numbers. This is necessary to boot certain operating systems
66 (DOS, Windows) from a secondary drive.
67 * chain.c32: option "file=" to support loading a boot file from
68 the SYSLINUX filesystem instead of loading the boot sector
69 from the drive.
70 * chain.c32: option "seg=" to control the load location.
71 * chain.c32: option "ntldr=" as a shorthand for "seg=0x2000
72 file="; use this to load one of WinNT's loaders:
74 chain.c32 hd0 1 ntldr=/MiniNT/setupldr.bin
76 Note that the file needs to be in the SYSLINUX filesystem.
77 * chain.32: options "freedos=" and "msdos="/"pcdos=" as
78 shorthands for "seg=0x60 file=" and "seg=0x70 file="
79 respectively; use this to load FreeDOS's kernel.sys, MS-DOS's
80 io.sys or PC-DOS's ibmbio.sys.
81 * Change to the A20 algorithm which *MIGHT* help systems that
82 have systems which freeze when Syslinux is used with USB
83 keyboards. Note that this has been hard do verify, so I
84 would greatly appreciate feedback on it.
85 * Complex menu system: unbreak menus which has unnamed
86 submenus, like complex.c.
87 * Fix newline on the serial port for some com32 modules.
88 * chain.c32: support "boot" as the drive specification,
89 indicating the drive from which it was booted
90 (for syslinux/extlinux).
91 * SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX: support "localboot" with the same feature
92 set as ISOLINUX.
93 * Add an experimental MBR for GPT partition tables.
94 * Use $(CC) when determining compile flags.
95 * chain.c32: fix booting from logical partitions (Sergey
96 Vlasov.)
98 Changes in 3.63:
99 * Fix errors in the PCI and DMI detection modules (Erwan Velu,
100 Sebastian Herbszt).
101 * Fix host dependencies and other issues in the build system.
102 * PXELINUX: Allow class E addresses as unicast.
103 * sdi.c32: module to load Microsoft System Deployment Images.
104 For additional information, please see:
105 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms838543.aspx
106 * EXTLINUX: Correct reading directories with deleted entries.
107 * Shuffle library: correct the handling of certain geometries
108 (an upward move with source material blocking the move); as
109 required by sdi.c32 but theoretically possible for other
110 formats as well.
111 * Add "make netinstall" to install /tftpboot.
112 * Fix some documentation files that didn't get moved/renamed.
114 Changes in 3.62:
115 * Clean up garbage after "aborted." message.
116 * Clean up memdump.com filenames.
117 * Support SHA256 and SHA512 encrypted passwords.
118 * The shuffle library now can generate chained descriptors,
119 thus allowing pretty much arbitrarily complex memory maps.
120 * Handle command lines up to 2047 characters, the current
121 Linux kernel limit.
122 * vesamenu: support systems without linear framebuffer support
123 (sigh, what is this, 1993?) and 15-bit RGB modes.
124 * Move the label storage (for the command-line interface) to
125 high memory, removing the size limit and freeing up 64K of
126 low memory.
127 * Get rid of 4096-entry limit in the simple menu system.
128 * New hierarchial submenu support: see MENU BEGIN, MENU END,
129 MENU GOTO in doc/menu.txt.
130 * MENU QUIT allows creating a menu entry for returning to the
131 command line.
132 * ISOLINUX: Work around bug in certain Adaptec BIOSes,
133 patch by Bruce Robson.
134 * pngtopnm dependency removed from samples/ directory.
135 * Text documentation files (in doc/) renamed *.doc -> *.txt.
137 Changes in 3.61:
138 * EXTLINUX: fix crash when accessing an empty file.
139 * elf.c32: If a PHDR segment is present, load it.
140 * Fix SHA-1 and MD5 passwords.
141 * ISOLINUX: fix booting when mastered without
142 mkisofs -boot-info-table (broken since 3.50, sigh...)
143 * Handle BIOSes which emit multiple contiguous valid
144 memory regions in the e820 map.
146 Changes in 3.60:
147 * Support for "auxilliary data vector", a small amount of
148 writable storage. Currently only supported for EXTLINUX,
149 but the infrastructure is there for the other derivatives,
150 assuming a suitable storage location can be found.
151 * EXTLINUX: boot-once support (--once, --clear-once, and
152 --reset-adv).
153 * A command is now required to the EXTLINUX installer, i.e. at
154 least one of --install, --update, --once, --clear-once, or
155 --reset-adv.
157 Changes in 3.55:
158 * PXELINUX: as per RFC 5071, PXELINUX no longer requires the
159 use of the magic cookie option (208) for unencapsulated
160 options. Currently it does not require it for
161 vendor-encapsulated options (vendor-option-space) either,
162 but that MAY be reverted in the future if it causes
163 problems.
164 * Documentation text files moved to a common "doc" directory;
165 man pages from the Debian project added to the "man"
166 directory.
167 * Correct bug with self-overlapping memory areas when using
168 the shuffle interface.
170 Changes in 3.54:
171 * Add "menu separator", "menu indent", "menu disabled"
172 (see README.menu).
173 * vesamenu: fix handing of VESA modes with noncontiguous
174 memory buffers. In particular, Qemu/KVM sets up such a mode
175 when Cirrus Logic emulation is enabled (which is the
176 default.)
177 * Support for calling real mode functions using far calls,
178 with argument on the stack. This was implemented to support
179 the BIOS BBS specification, but subsequent experiments show
180 that the at least one of the most common BIOS cores, Award,
181 passes the presence check but doesn't actually implement the
182 functionality.
184 Changes in 3.53:
185 * Fix bugs related to the $PnP BIOS functionality on some
186 platforms.
187 * PXELINUX: Fix the "naked" version of :: (suppress prefix.)
188 * elf.c32: better error messages.
189 * Faster operation under Intel VT virtualization.
190 * PXELINUX: Fix DHCP bootfile option.
191 * mkdiskimage: Support more than 1024 cylinders.
192 * (Hopefully) fix installer on non-x86 platforms.
193 * Fix shuffle_and_boot_rm, used by linux.c32.
194 * Fix shuffle_and_boot_pm on 386/486.
195 * ISOLINUX (at least): fix bss memory overwrite hang.
196 * MBR: Fix booting from logical partitions.
197 * Code cleanups.
199 Changes in 3.52:
200 * Handle capitalized F-key commands in the menu system.
201 * Fix padding error when loading multiple ramdisks.
202 * Workaround for VMware crashing when trying to print a
203 message during early kernel boot (does not seem to work,
204 consider deleting.)
205 * chain.c32: add the ability to search for a specific MBR
206 signature at runtime.
207 * Fall back to the server identity option if the siaddr field
208 in the DHCP header isn't set. This seems to match the
209 behaviour of most PXE stacks.
210 * mkdiskimage: give the generated disk image an MBR signature.
211 * MEMDISK: Fix failures on some BIOSes.
212 * Simple menu system: new "MENU HIDDEN" option to not display
213 the menu unless the user presses a key.
214 * Simple menu system: support MD5-encrypted passwords (modern
215 Unix standard style, with "$1$" prefixes.)
216 * pcitest.c32: now functions as a full "lspci". Thanks to
217 Erwan Velu for this work.
218 * MEMDISK: Make EDD actually work.
219 * ISOLINUX: Fix for certain broken CD-ROM BIOSes which
220 randomly corrupted register FS.
221 * Simple menu system: fix memory overwrite bug that caused
222 some systems to lock up or behave weirdly.
223 * Fix building on 64-bit systems without a 32-bit libc installed.
225 Changes in 3.51:
226 * EXTLINUX: Fix failure to find the configuration file.
228 Changes in 3.50:
229 * New keywords allow the type of file to be specified in the
230 configuration file.
231 * It is now supported to load a different configuration file
232 with the CONFIG keyword.
233 * Fix API call 0x0019 (Read Disk.)
234 * MENU AUTOBOOT, MENU TABMSG, MENU PASSPROMPT allows
235 internationalization of menu messages.
236 * A new feature, TEXT HELP, allows the administrator to set
237 a multi-line help message for individual selections.
238 * Fix API call 0x0012 (Cleanup, shuffle and boot.)
239 * New API call "Cleanup, shuffle and boot to flat protected mode"
240 * New API call "Cleanup, shuffle and boot to real mode",
241 similar to API call 0x0012 but allows arbitrary register setting.
242 * Introduce a library interface for loading arbitrary binary
243 formats with relatively easily understood code. See
244 the elf.c32 module for an example on how to use it.
245 * New module "elf.c32", to load a protected-mode ELF kernel.
246 * MBR (old and new): Fix bug in CHS mode when LBA >
247 65535*sectors.
248 * vesamenu: fix decoding of palettized PNG images.
249 * Update the Linux kernel boot protocol.
250 * PXELINUX: Press Ctrl-N at the boot prompt to read out the
251 network info.
252 * Instead of the (non-existent) MAC, use the client identifier
253 for networks like Infiniband and Firewire/1394.
254 * Add a new INCLUDE command to the core syslinux parser.
255 * Allow binding help text to F11 and F12.
256 * F-key help now available in the simple menu system.
257 * Disabled the polling for ARP during idle. It is simply too
258 slow on some (broken!) PXE stacks.
259 * PXELINUX: also try to fetch the config file based on UUID.
260 * SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX: New RAID mode (-r) which calls the BIOS
261 to load the next device (typically the next drive) on boot
262 failure.
264 Changes in 3.36:
265 * MEMDISK: Disable EDD by default on floppy disks. EDD can be
266 enabled with the "edd" option and disabled with "noedd".
267 This (hopefully) should make Ghost work again.
268 * SYSLINUX: "unix" installer now uses Linux ioctls instead of
269 using libfat.
270 * New MBR which can boot from logical partitions.
271 * SYSLINUX: Fix bug in detecting special extensions which was
272 introduced in 3.35 :(
273 * PXELINUX: Unbreak chainbooting FreeBSD (and possibly others.)
275 Changes in 3.35:
276 * MEMDISK: New "safeint" mode.
277 * MEMDISK: Be more compliant with the PnP BIOS spec.
278 * MEMDISK: Turn on EDD support by default.
279 * MEMDISK: Try to work on some machines on which it would not
280 work when there was no floppy drive in the system.
281 * Simple menu system: fix serial console support (broken in
282 3.30).
283 * SYSLINUX: Support subdirectories. Like ISOLINUX, the
284 "current directory" is the directory in which syslinux.cfg
285 is found; this is searched for in the sequence
286 /boot/syslinux, /syslinux, /. As a side benefit, label names
287 like "linux-2.6.18" and "linux-2.6.19" are now supported.
289 To install ldlinux.sys in a subdirectory, pass the -d
290 directory option to the SYSLINUX installer.
292 This work was sponsored by slax.org (thanks, Tomas!)
293 * New API call: read disk.
294 * Invoke ONERROR on initrd load failure.
296 Changes in 3.31:
297 * The simple menu system (menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32) now
298 support loading more than one configuration file at a time,
299 using MENU INCLUDE or by specifying multiple filenames.
300 * The MENU COLOR statement can now control the shadowing mode.
302 Changes in 3.30:
303 * libcom32 extended to support graphics mode and graphical console.
304 * vesamenu.c32, new graphical version of the Simple
305 Menu System, see README.menu.
306 * New com32 modules by Erwan Velu do selection based on CPUID
307 or PCI devices present.
308 * RPM spec: add syslinux-tftpboot module; move syslinux by
309 default to the /usr/share/syslinux directory.
310 * RPM spec: extlinux is now a separate package.
312 Changes in 3.20:
313 * EXTLINUX: New options --install (-i) and --update (-U), to
314 make it clear if a boot loader should be installed or
315 updated. For now, defaults to --install for compatibility;
316 a future version will require one of these options.
317 * New library functions to load and place files in memory.
318 * mboot.c32 bug fixes.
319 * Remove 8 MB kernel size restriction.
320 * Add "klibc" target for building unix/syslinux and
321 extlinux/extlinux with klcc (klibc-1.4.27 or later.)
322 * PXELINUX: Fail (and eventually reboot) if no configuration
323 file was found.
324 * COM32 module by Erwan Velu to make decisions based on DMI
325 info.
326 * Fix issue where going back and forth between menus a lot
327 would cause a hang.
328 * ISOLINUX: Fix bug which made "cd boot sectors" not work.
330 Changes in 3.11:
331 * MEMDISK: Fix bug by which accessing the real floppy disk
332 as B: in MS-DOS was broken.
333 * Simple menu system: allow tweaking of the screen layout.
334 * Simple menu system: better command-line editing, correctly
335 handle command lines above 256 characters.
336 * PXELINUX: revert memory allocation change that caused
337 problems on some network cards.
338 * MEMDISK: Try work around a bug on some BIOSes when no
339 physical floppy disk is present in the system.
340 * Enable the 16550A FIFOs, if present, when doing serial
341 console.
342 * New "totaltimeout" command establishes a timeout without
343 regard for any user input.
344 * Simple menu system: timeout behaviour now more in line with
345 user expectations.
346 * Simple menu system: "ontimeout" should now work correctly.
348 Changes in 3.10:
349 * gcc 4.0.1 compilation fixes.
350 * Add support for querying the PCI BIOS in libcom32
351 (used by ethersel et al.)
352 * Fix PCI handing (ethersel etc) on several old chipsets (and
353 VMWare.)
354 * Try to deal with systems with broken EBIOS.
355 * New API call to do "localboot".
356 * New API call to query features.
357 * New API call to run kernel image, a lower-level call than
358 "run command". See comboot.doc.
359 * Fix for bug in EBIOS code discovered by Arwin Vosselman.
360 * NOESCAPE security fix.
361 * Comments are now recognized even without a space following #.
362 * Fix incorrect handling of mixes of entries with and without
363 MENU PASSWD.
364 * The idle API call now harmlessly returns failure if it is a
365 no-op. That way the caller can decide whether or not to
366 bother invoking it again.
367 * Temporarily disable the idle API call on PXELINUX, due to
368 some platforms on which the idle API call seems to hang; this
369 problem has not yet been debugged.
370 * MEMDISK: the handling of DOSEMU-headered images was broken;
371 fix it.
372 * EXTLINUX: symlinks are now supported.
373 * Simple menu system: N and P now work correctly as hotkeys.
374 * MEMDISK: more BIOS bug workarounds.
376 Changes in 3.09:
377 * gcc4 compilation fix.
378 * <BEL> (Ctrl-G) in message files now causes a beep.
379 * Reduce the command line to 511 characters; 1023 caused
380 memory overflows.
382 Changes in 3.08:
383 * SYSLINUX: Fix performance regression (-s mode always
384 enabled.)
385 * Add API function for idle loop.
386 * libutil: Add do_idle() function for idle loop, make
387 get_key() use it.
388 * libutil: Add SHA-1 and base64 functions.
389 * Simple menu system: add password support.
390 * EXTLINUX: Sparse files now handled correctly.
391 * EXTLINUX: Large directories now handled correctly.
392 * ALL: At the prompt, Ctrl-X now forces text mode.
393 * Fix configuration file parsing error, that could cause
394 hangs.
395 * Rewritten advanced menuing system from Murali Ganapathy.
396 * MEMDISK: New "bigraw" mode to work around certain broken
397 BIOS flash programs.
398 * COM32 module to boot Multiboot systems, including Xen. See
399 com32/modules/mboot.doc.
400 * Max command line changed to 1023 characters. Note that the
401 kernel proper still can only handle 255 characters without
402 patching, and COM16 binaries can only handle 125 characters.
404 Changes in 3.07:
405 * Fix chainloading (chain.c32).
406 * Fix zlib build problem.
407 * Use a private copy of <linux/ext2_fs.h>.
409 Changes in 3.06:
410 * Fix typo that caused the ramdisk to load in the wrong place.
412 Changes in 3.05:
413 * New API function "shuffle and boot"; allows COM32 modules to
414 load or construct (almost) arbitrarily complex objects,
415 e.g. a kernel and its initrd/initramfs in pieces, and have
416 the API core reorganize memory for booting. (A library API
417 for this function will be introduced in a later version.)
418 * The initrd= option now supports multiple filenames separated
419 by commas. This is mostly useful for initramfs, which can
420 be composed of multiple separate cpio or cpio.gz archives.
421 (Note: all files except the last one are zero-padded to a 4K
422 page boundary. This should not affect initramfs.)
423 * EXTLINUX: Fix API function 000Ah (get derivative-specific
424 info).
425 * libcom32/ethersel: Support PCI Config Mechanism #2 on
426 machines still infested with that hideous old hack.
427 * SYSLINUX: Fix directory-parsing bug.
429 Changes in 3.02:
430 * SYSLINUX: The "unix" installer now sets the MS-DOS
431 attributes (hidden, system, readonly.)
432 * COM32 library: build the .lnx (test modules for running
433 under Linux) as architecture native modules, in case
434 i386 devel libraries aren't installed.
435 * EXTLINUX: Hack for systems which don't have BLKGETSIZE64
436 defined in the standard header files.
437 * Simple menu system: minor aestetic improvements, and try to
438 work better over a serial console (speed, and readability on
439 monochrome terminal emulators.)
440 * New CONSOLE directive to control output on the video console
441 (useful for dealing with some broken serial-forwarding
442 BIOSes.)
443 * New com32 module "ethersel" for searching for an Ethernet
444 card and selecting the proper version of Etherboot.
445 * EXTLINUX: Allow the user to override the detected geometry.
446 Add help.
448 Changes in 3.01:
449 * EXTLINUX, SYSLINUX: Fix compile errors on some systems.
450 * EXTLINUX: Default to zipdrive geometry (64 heads, 32
451 sectors) if no other geometry can be detected.
453 Changes in 3.00:
454 * SYSLINUX: Support FAT32 and EDD. As an unfortunate
455 consequence, LDLINUX.SYS is no longer an ordinary file; it
456 is block-mapped at install time, which means it can only be
457 written using the syslinux installers.
458 * SYSLINUX: Reorganize the source code for the installers;
459 each one of the installers (dos, win32, unix, mtools) is now
460 built in its own subdirectory. In particular, "mtools" is
461 the unprivileged installer which uses mtools; "unix" is the
462 privileged installer which uses system calls.
463 * SYSLINUX: Completely rewritten DOS installer in C.
464 * ALL: "label" statement information is now stored in a
465 compressed format, which means that a lot more labels are
466 permitted (500-1000 in a typical configuration, but depends
467 on the complexity.)
468 * EXTLINUX: New derivative, which boots from an ext2/ext3
469 filesystem.
470 * SYSLINUX: The DOS and Win32 installers can now optionally
471 write the boot sector to a file instead of the real boot
472 sector. This is not supported in the Linux installers,
473 however.
474 * ALL: New NOESCAPE command, disables the "hold down the Shift
475 key to display the prompt" behaviour.
476 * New simple menu system, as an alternative to the advanced
477 menu system already present. See README.menu for details.
478 * PXELINUX: Filenames can now be prefixed with an IP address
479 or DNS name plus :: (e.g. 192.0.2.1::filename or
480 server.domain.com::filename), which downloads a file from an
481 alternate TFTP server, or just a :: (e.g. ::filename), which
482 suppresses the common pathname prefix. See pxelinux.doc.
483 * SYSLINUX: Add an -m option to the DOS and Win32 installers
484 to write an MBR and -a to mark the partition SYSLINUX is
485 being installed on active.
486 * MEMDISK: Give a way to query the boot loader type while
487 running MEMDISK; see memdisk/memdisk.doc and
488 sample/mdiskchk.c.
489 * mkdiskimage: substantially improved mkdiskimage which, among
490 other things, can now be used to initialize USB keys as
491 zipdrives; see README.usbkey for more information.
493 Changes in 2.13:
494 * MEMDISK: Fix command-line parsing "brown paper bag" class
495 bug.
496 * MEMDISK: Add "raw" mode to support the DOS boot disk from
497 WinME/XP, which seems to deliberately crash the system
498 when someone uses the "INT 15h mover" highmem API.
499 * Make "make install" do something sane for the com32
500 development environment.
501 * In the spec file, create a separate -devel RPM for the com32
502 development environment.
504 Changes in 2.12:
505 * Simple C library, based on klibc, for writing COM32
506 programs.
507 * Fix the handling of file length in loading of COM32
508 programs.
509 * MEMDISK: Work around a linker bug by rearranging the code to
510 not use the linker for the 16-bit code.
511 * SYSLINUX: If we're building on a machine without a Win32
512 (mingw) compiler, just skip building syslinux.exe.
513 * ISOLINUX: Support non-mkisofs mastering programs, at least
514 as long as the image is single-session. For best results,
515 ISOLINUX should be the only boot loader installed.
516 * MEMDISK: Allow the user to specify that the simulated disk
517 should be write-protected.
519 Changes in 2.11:
520 * ALL: Add an API call to get the configuration file name.
521 * SYSLINUX: Fix bug in 2.10 that prevented it from working
522 correctly for a lot of people.
523 * SYSLINUX: In the installer, make mtools a bit less fussy.
524 * Make the menu system compile with newer gcc's.
526 Changes in 2.10:
527 * MEMDISK: Handle images compressed with zip as well as with
528 gzip. Some Windows-based image tools apparently generate
529 these kinds of images by default. Patch by Patrick
530 LoPresti.
531 * Major menu improvement from Murali Ganapathy.
532 * ISOLINUX: Wonderfully sick and brilliant workaround for
533 severe bugs in certain Award BIOSes; from Knut Petersen.
534 * SYSLINUX: Fix for the nomtools installed, from Frederic
535 Pasteleurs.
536 * PXELINUX: Fix handling of IP numbers in the ranges
537 100-109 and 200-209.
538 * ALL: New option "allowoptions" (defaults to 1), which
539 controls if options are allowed on the command line or not.
540 * SYSLINUX: Support building under klibc (see the klibc
541 distribution for details.)
543 Changes in 2.09:
544 * SYSLINUX: Remove residual setuid crap from
545 syslinux-nomtools.
546 * Handle video pages correctly when using the API functions.
547 * Handle compiling on an x86-64 platform correctly.
548 * Menu system from Murali Krishnan Ganapathy; see the menu
549 directory for information.
550 * COMBOOT: Allow COMBOOT programs to change screen text mode.
551 * COMBOOT: Correct the documentation of how to detect
552 SYSLINUX from COMBOOT!!!!
553 * COMBOOT: Fix "get key without echo" API function.
554 * SYSLINUX: Fix bug that affected the API open function.
555 * ALL: Improve the E820 memory parser, to work around some
556 buggy BIOSes.
558 Changes in 2.08:
559 * Add new configuration command "ontimeout" to allow timeout
560 to have a different action than just pressing Enter.
561 * Add new configuration command "onerror" to allow a custom
562 command to be executed in case the kernel image is not found.
563 * Fix bugs in the COMBOOT/COM32 command-line parsing. APPEND
564 now works with COMBOOT/COM32 images.
565 * PXELINUX: Poll for ARP requests while sitting at the
566 prompt. This makes some boot servers a lot less unhappy.
567 * PXELINUX: Actually free sockets when we get a failure
568 (including file not found.) This bug would cause us to run
569 out of sockets and thus "go deaf" after a while.
570 * MEMDISK: Add an API to query for the existence of MEMDISK.
571 * SYSLINUX: Fix loading boot sectors (.bs/.bss) from floppy
572 disk.
573 * .c32 is now one of the extensions searched for
574 automatically.
575 * PXELINUX: RFBG.exe seems to randomly overwrite memory
576 location 0x5700. Thus, don't use it!
577 * PXELINUX: Change pathname length max from 63 to 127; change
578 max vkernels from 128 to 64.
579 * Support Ctrl-U -> kill entire command line input.
580 * The "samples" directory contains a (barely at all tested)
581 chain loading example, chain.c32, which may be used to
582 chainload local floppy disks and hard disks. Use with
583 "chain fdN" or "chain hdN [partition]"; N = 0 for the first
584 drive of each type.
586 Changes in 2.07:
587 * MEMDISK: Workaround for BIOSes which go into a snit when
588 they get a RESET command for the floppy system when there is
589 no floppy in the system.
590 * PXELINUX: Add "ipappend 2", which passes the hardware
591 address of the boot interface to the kernel as a
592 command-line option.
593 * mkdiskimage: fix the generation of the end limit.
594 * PXELINUX: Fix multiple bugs in chainloading of other NBPs.
595 * MEMDISK: Fix bug that would occationally cause "ran out of
596 input data" when using compressed disk images.
597 * SYSLINUX: Updates for the win32 installer (from Lars Munch.)
598 * PXELINUX: PXELINUX-specific options are now recognized both
599 in a vendor-option-space (a.k.a. type 43 encapsulated) as
600 well as in a site-option-space (unencapsulated.)
601 * COM32: Don't crash when DS != 0.
602 * COMBOOT/COM32: Make file reading work correctly. Thanks to
603 Phung Chi Kien for submitting a test program.
605 Changes in 2.06:
606 * ALL: Fix problem that would occationally cause a
607 boot failure, depending on the length of the kernel.
608 * ISOLINUX: Fix problem that would occationally cause a
609 boot failure, depending on the length of directories.
610 * SYSLINUX: Win32 installer now flushes buffers.
611 * ppmtolss16: Be fully compliant with the PNM spec;
612 actually process comments in the header and odd
613 alignments of the various parameters, as well as
614 "plain" (not raw) files and PBM and PGM files.
615 * PXELINUX: Lower the default MTU to 1472 in order to deal
616 with systems with slightly nonstandard MTUs, and PXE
617 stacks which don't defragment correctly. Unfortunately this
618 is very hard to test dynamically.
620 Changes in 2.05:
621 * PXELINUX: Add a default query based on the hardware address
622 of the boot device. This is in lower case hexadecimal form
623 separated by dashes and including the hardware type, for
624 example, the Ethernet (type 1) address 88:99:AA:BB:CC:DD
625 would query the file pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-dd.
626 * PXELINUX: Fix bug involving non-IP-based config file names.
627 * SYSLINUX: New installer for WinNT-based systems, from Lars
628 Munch.
629 * MEMDISK: Fix handling of memory region overlap when
630 decompressing. Thanks to Mikhail Kupchik for identifying
631 the problem.
633 Changes in 2.04:
634 * ALL: Reclaim even more low memory by observing that
635 comboot_seg == real_mode_seg is perfectly fine, and by the
636 fact that the 1000h segment managed to get unused in all
637 derivatives...
638 * PXELINUX: Attempt to negotiate full Ethernet-sized blocks
639 (1468 bytes) using the blksize option.
640 * SYSLINUX: Resurrect the old no-mtools version of the
641 installer, although as a root-only tool. Some distributors
642 have indicated that they need a small standalone installer.
643 * MEMDISK: Fix a memory offset computation error when
644 installing compressed disks which generally would cause
645 1 MB of memory to be wasted.
646 * MEMDISK: Fix installing the E820 memory map. Calling
647 INT 15h AX=0E820h with MEMDISK 2.03 loaded would give a
648 completely corrupt memory map.
649 * SYSLINUX: Make libsyslinux a dynamic library, so that it can
650 be updated separately from client programs. The whole idea,
651 after all, is to enable alternate programs to become
652 syslinux installers.
653 * Include an rpm spec file in the distribution, so rpmbuild
654 -ta works.
656 Changes in 2.03:
657 * Actually support comment lines in the configuration file.
658 * PXELINUX: Try to resolve some problems with stack switches.
659 * PXELINUX: Handle PXE stacks with broken routing.
660 With these workarounds, the remote install PXE boot floppy
661 (rbfg.exe) from Argon Technologies should work correctly.
662 * Fix problems with Perl scripts in UTF-8 locales.
663 * You probably need NASM 0.98.34 or later to compile this
664 version. 0.98.36 is recommended.
665 * MEMDISK: Now supports gzip compressed images.
667 Changes in 2.02:
668 * SYSLINUX: Security flaws have been found in the SYSLINUX
669 installer when running setuid root. Rewrite the SYSLINUX
670 installer so it uses mtools instead. It therefore now
671 requires mtools (specifically mcopy and mattrib) to exist on
672 your system, but it will not require root privileges and
673 SHOULD NOT be setuid.
675 Changes in 2.01:
676 * MEMDISK: Fix memory sizing bug when the ramdisk crosses the
677 16 MB boundary.
678 * MEMDISK: Add a "pause" option to stop immediately before
679 booting, to read off the messages.
680 * MEMDISK: Support disk images with DOSEMU headers.
681 * Update the mkdiskimage script to handle newer mtools
682 versions, and be able to generate disk images with DOSEMU
683 headers (controlled by the -d option).
684 * Fix the COM32 sample program.
685 * PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Fix some COMBOOT API calls.
686 * PXELINUX: Doc fix.
687 * Build SYSLINUX into a small library for encapsulation into
688 other programs (however, please keep in mind this is a GPL'd
689 library.)
690 * SYSLINUX: Make installer work with "owner" in /etc/fstab.
691 * SYSLINUX: Fix issue with working on nonpartitioned hard disk
692 devices. THIS CONFIGURATION IS NOT RECOMMENDED.
694 Changes in 2.00:
695 * ALL: Add support for "COM32" (32-bit COMBOOT) images.
696 * ALL: Add an API for COMBOOT/COM32 images. See comboot.doc
697 for details. There is a C development environment for
698 COM32 being created; it should be ready at some point in
699 the future.
700 * Fix mbr.asm so that it actually works.
701 * SYSLINUX: The syslinux installer *SHOULD* now be safe to
702 run setuid root.
703 * PXELINUX: Fix bug where PXELINUX would override random
704 chunks of the UNDI code segment! Thanks to Kevin Tran for
705 finding this bug.
706 * ISOLINUX: Fix a bug related to slashes in pathnames.
707 * ISOLINUX: Fix a bug in handling initrds over 128 MB.
708 * ALL: Make the <Ctrl-V> key print out the version; this is
709 to help debugging.
710 * Add a small script, mkdiskimage, to create a DOS-formatted
711 hard disk image using mtools. This may be useful in
712 conjunction with MEMDISK.
713 * ISOLINUX: Search for a /boot/isolinux directory as well as
714 /isolinux.
715 * ALL: Fix a bug related to very long configuration files.
716 * PXELINUX: Work around a NASM bug which would result in no
717 delay before reset if an error occurs.
719 Changes in 1.76:
720 * ISOLINUX: Remove code no longer used which caused hangs on
721 some Toshiba laptops.
723 Changes in 1.75:
724 * ALL: NASM 0.98.32 or later is now required to build
725 SYSLINUX from sources.
726 * SYSLINUX: put back in the workaround for the BIOS floppy
727 table. This seems to be a requirement for "extended" floppy
728 formats to work correctly.
729 * SYSLINUX: No longer warn if one is trying to boot on a 286
730 or older. The above BIOS workaround no longer fits if the
731 requirement to use only 8086-compatible code in the early
732 boot is maintained. It made sense in 1994, but in 2002 a
733 286 or older is a museum object.
734 * SYSLINUX: Use a downright bizarre, stateful algorithm to try
735 to guess the maximum transfer size. I am *hoping* this will
736 cut down on the number of systems for which -s is required
737 to work at any acceptable speed.
738 * ISOLINUX: Add a few more workarounds for various broken El
739 Torito BIOSes.
740 * Make sure .depend files aren't accidentally packed...
741 * ALL: Fix bugs in the extension-detect code; this caused
742 files like COMBOOT images and CD boot sectors to be
743 mis-identified as Linux kernels and rejected.
744 * ALL: Fix the return from COMBOOT.
745 * ALL: Do some of the early groundwork for supporting DOS
746 system calls in COMBOOT.
747 * Get rid of unnecessary "near" directives, making the code
748 bigger.
749 * PXELINUX: Put the PXE stack back in the init state before
750 invoking a chain-loaded NBP.
751 * PXELINUX: Actually found the combination of calls that
752 allows some (most?) PXE 2+ stacks to be unloaded from memory
753 properly.
754 * PXELINUX: Add "keeppxe" command-line option to disable
755 the standard unloading of the PXE stack.
757 Changes in 1.74:
758 * SYSLINUX: fix bug that would cause valid kernel images to be
759 labelled "invalid".
761 Changes in 1.73:
762 * Work on removing gratuitous differences between modules.
763 * Break up the source in common and module-specific files.
764 * PXELINUX: Allow chaining of other PXE NBPs.
765 * ISOLINUX: Allow loading "CD-ROM boot sectors".
766 * ALL: generalize the definition of a boot sector/NBP.
768 Changes in 1.72:
769 * PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Fix bugs in the new core code.
771 Changes in 1.71:
772 * Fix a "brown paper bag" class bug in the new core code.
774 Changes in 1.70:
775 * Major code restructuring.
776 * Relax the conventional memory limits somewhat.
777 * MEMDISK: Set up the "version number string" pointer in the
778 header correctly.
779 * SYSLINUX: Fix, again, "the bug that won't die": the use of
780 the offset parameter with the SYSLINUX installer.
781 * SYSLINUX: Fix possible superblock corruption problem in the
782 SYSLINUX installer.
784 Changes in 1.67:
785 * Handle bug in the location of initrd.
787 Changes in 1.66:
788 * MEMDISK: Make compile with newer versions of gcc.
790 Changes in 1.65:
791 * ISOLINUX: Support booting disk image files (to boot DOS or
792 other non-Linux operating systems), *IF* the BIOS works
793 correctly; unfortunately many BIOSes apparently don't.
794 * Support Linux boot protocol version 2.03 (explicitly
795 specify the initrd address limit.)
796 * Handle small "pseudo-kernels"; images that use the Linux
797 kernel boot protocols but are less than 64K in size.
798 * MEMDISK: New subsystem; this is a driver which allows
799 legacy OSes to boot using an in-memory simulated disk.
800 See memdisk/memdisk.doc for more info.
801 * PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Correctly handle files larger than 65535
802 blocks (32 MB for PXELINUX, 128 MB for ISOLINUX.)
803 * PXELINUX: Make a best-effort attempt at freeing all memory
804 claimed. From the looks of it, it will fail on most PXE
805 stacks.
807 Changes in 1.64:
808 * Limited support for hardware flow control when using a
809 serial port console.
810 * Support specifying the serial port I/O address explicitly.
811 * Make DOS installer hopefully behave more nicely when used on
812 recent Windows versions.
813 * Fix returning to text mode when a font has been specified.
814 * Attempt to detect missing serial port hardware and disable
815 the serial port if there is nothing there.
817 Changes in 1.63:
818 * Make the ppmtolss16 program handle color conversion more
819 correctly.
820 * Clean up "make install" target, honour INSTALLROOT if it
821 exists.
822 * SYSLINUX: Fix stack-smash bug identified by Steffen
823 Winterfeldt.
824 * Hopefully fix return-to-text-mode on some graphics cards.
825 * ISOLINUX: Bug workaround for Award BIOS 4.51, and perhaps
826 other buggy BIOSes as well.
828 Changes in 1.62:
829 * PXELINUX: Allow the DHCP server to override the
830 configuration file name and pathname prefix, using
831 "site-specific" DHCP options.
832 * PXELINUX: Documentation fixes.
833 * PXELINUX: Fix the "ipappend" option; the last two values
834 were reversed vs. what the kernel expected.
835 * Introduce a way to return to text mode once we are already
836 in graphics mode. This may be useful for F-key help
837 screens.
838 * Fix several bugs in the way return to text mode was handled.
840 Changes in 1.61:
841 * ISOLINUX: Support full pathname searches. Max length for a
842 pathname is 255 characters. As a result, only 64 "label"
843 statements are supported in ISOLINUX.
844 * PXELINUX: Max filename length extended to 63 characters.
846 Changes in 1.60:
847 * Add support for graphical splash screens.
848 * Add mode control characters, which allows you to control
849 message display output depending on output mode (text,
850 graphics, or serial port.)
851 * ISOLINUX: New program, which boots Linux from a CD-ROM
852 without using floppy emulation mode. See isolinux.doc for
853 more details.
854 * PXELINUX: Don't search for boot sector file types, since
855 they don't work anyway.
856 * SYSLINUX: Document the LOCK command for Win9x, and the error
857 dialog box for WinNT/2K.
859 Changes in 1.54:
860 * PXELINUX: Fix code for finding !PXE from PXENV+. This was
861 due to a spec bug; match the most recent spec since that
862 seems to be what implementations actually do.
863 * SYSLINUX: Add some smarts to the boot sector, which
864 hopefully should reduce the number of systems which require
865 stupid mode ("syslinux -s").
866 * PXELINUX: Document further some of the pathologies with old
867 PXE stacks.
868 * When specifying a "default" command line, no longer
869 automatically appent "auto". See the "DEFAULT" command in
870 syslinux.doc for more information.
871 * PXELINUX: Clean up the allocation of local socket numbers.
873 Changes in 1.53:
874 * PXELINUX: Rename pxelinux.bin to pxelinux.0, to match what
875 most PXE servers seem to expect.
876 * PXELINUX: Update the DHCP/boot server setup documentation.
877 * PXELINUX: Support new "localboot" option for "label"
878 sections.
879 * PXELINUX: More robust parsing of DHCP/boot server packets.
880 * PXELINUX: Include a small utility program "gethostip" to
881 compute hexadecimal IP addresses.
883 Changes in 1.52:
884 * PXELINUX: Fix bugs introduced by new A20 code. (SYSLINUX
885 has also been changed for code consistency reasons, but I'm
886 pretty sure the changes are don't care on SYSLINUX.)
887 * Documentation updates.
888 * PXELINUX: Add "ipappend" option to generate an ip= option to
889 the kernel.
891 Changes in 1.51:
892 * PXELINUX: Not all PXE stacks fill in the IP address for a
893 type 3 cached info query. Use a type 2 cached info query
894 for this information (only.)
895 * Yet another attempt at A20 coding. Now support BIOS call
896 15:2401 as well, and handle machines which always have A20
897 on separately.
898 * Support memory detection using INT 15h, AX=0E820h. BIOS
899 manufacturers have apparently gotten sloppy about keeping
900 INT 15h, AX=0E801h working properly.
901 * Don't issue <CR><LF> onto the serial port when we're doing
902 screen wraparound.
904 Changes in 1.50:
905 * Yet another A20-code update. It seems some "legacy-free"
906 machines and embedded gear simply don't have a KBC to talk
907 to, and that waiting for one will wait forever. Sigh.
909 Changes in 1.49:
910 * SYSLINUX: Implement a hack for BIOS drivers which hog significant
911 chunks of low memory during boot. (Note: PXELINUX already
912 had this modification. SYSLINUX does still require that the
913 low 512K is available; PXELINUX requires 384K. Machines
914 with a physical memory hole in the low 640K cannot boot
915 Linux no matter what.) Depending what the reason is for the
916 memory hole, a new kernel (2.4.0-test3-pre3 or later) may be
917 required.
918 * SYSLINUX: Default installer binary now compiled against
919 glibc 2.1. If this is inappropriate for your system and you
920 still want to use the offical version of SYSLINUX, please
921 follow the instructions in "distrib.doc" to rebuild the
922 installer.
923 * SYSLINUX: Linux installer program now supports -o <offset>
924 option which does a loopback mount with the
925 -o loop,offset=<> option. Useful to run SYSLINUX on an
926 individual partition of a whole-harddisk image.
927 * Include the source code to a Master Boot Record (MBR)
928 functionally equivalent to the one installed DOS except it
929 includes EBIOS support, and should be resistant to geometry
930 changes. The MBR code is public domain.
931 * PXELINUX: Fix "double p" bug: if the tftp prefix was null,
932 all filenames would get a "p" preprended, e.g.
933 "ppxelinux.cfg" and "pvmlinux".
935 Changes in 1.48:
936 * PXELINUX: Workaround for PXE ROMs based on the Intel PXE PDK
937 3.0 build 071 and earlier: missing !PXE structure pointer.
938 * PXELINUX: Handle larger BOOTP/DHCP packages.
939 * PXELINUX: The command line passing was broken; fix.
940 * PXELINUX: Make COMBOOT images work.
941 * PXELINUX: Documentation on how to make booting work using
942 the PDK 3.0-derived clients, which aren't so generous as to
943 allow booting with only "PXEClient" specified.
945 Changes in 1.47:
946 * PXELINUX: RFC 1123 states that a TFTP implementation MUST
947 use adaptive timeout, "at least an exponential backoff of
948 retransmission timeout is necessary." Implement a very
949 simple exponential backoff for retransmits.
950 * PXELINUX: Updated documentation, including pointer to new
951 TFTP server.
952 * PXELINUX: When sending ERROR due to bad OACK, use the proper
953 destination port number (why are TFTP port numbers so odd?)
954 * PXELINUX: If the boot dies in the middle somewhere,
955 eventually give up and reset the machine (unattended
956 operation.)
958 Changes in 1.46:
959 * New program PXELINUX to do network booting using a
960 PXE-compliant (Pre-Execution Environment) network booting
961 PROM. See pxelinux.doc for details.
963 Changes in 1.45:
964 * Serial console support. See syslinux.doc for details.
966 Changes in 1.44:
967 * Change HIGHMEM_MAX to 38000000h to (hopefully) avoid the
968 kernel stepping on it; 3f000000h was apparently a higher
969 limit than the kernel used!
971 Changes in 1.43:
972 * Add sys2ansi.pl script to display the contents of a
973 colorized SYSLINUX file.
974 * Changed the io_delay once again, after a report that the
975 old delay port causes hangs on some systems.
977 Changes in 1.42:
978 * Frob the "fast A20 gate" port as well as the keyboard
979 controller; will this help systems with problems?
980 * Be even more paranoid about A20, unfortunately even this
981 seems to be not paranoid enough... what I don't understand
982 is that if there is hardware out there *this broken*, how
983 can it run Linux at all? Report an error message rather
984 than hang forever if A20 is stuck.
985 * Include some intermediate files in the distribution, plus
986 provide a "make installer" target for distributors to relink
987 the install programs only. I would prefer the syslinux boot
988 loader proper to be "binary clean" for debuggablity -- use
989 "make clean ; make installer" to rebuild the installers only.
991 Changes in 1.41:
992 * Don't get confused by directories, volume labels, or VFAT
993 long names.
994 * Use INT 15h, AX=0E801h to query memory size before trying
995 INT 15h, AH=88h. This not only provides more headroom
996 between the kernel and the initrd on large-memory machines,
997 but it appears some recent BIOSes actually have started
998 returning garbage for the AH=88h (older) call.
999 * Trust high memory beyond the 15 MB mark if the user has
1000 specified it, or if obtained with INT 15h, AH=0E801h (with
1001 no memory holes above 1 MB.)
1003 Changes in 1.40:
1004 * Increase A20M delay and put in a test to avoid problems on
1005 certain IBM Thinkpads (thanks to Donnie Barnes of RedHat
1006 for vital info on this one.)
1007 * Support COMBOOT style boot command images.
1008 * Support chain loading (foreign operating systems, e.g. DOS).
1009 * Include a new "copybs" DOS utility to copy a boot sector to
1010 a file (under Linux, use "dd".)
1011 * Fix the DOS installer to work for disks over 32 MB.
1012 * SYSLINUX should now handle disks with more than 65536 tracks.
1014 Changes in 1.37:
1015 * Fix a bug that caused "label" statements in syslinux.cfg to
1016 not be handled properly.
1017 * Updated the documentation. Among other things, we now allow
1018 up to 128 "label" statements.
1020 Changes in 1.36:
1021 * Fix for booting old (pre-initrd) kernels.
1022 * It seems at least some versions of OS/2 doesn't set up all
1023 the fields in the superblock correctly. Account for that.
1024 * Fix bug that caused boot failure when using the mem= option.
1026 Changes in 1.35:
1027 * Loading from partitions now should work properly. (Actually
1028 tested, this time. You should even be able to dd a floppy
1029 to a partition and boot from it.)
1030 * Removed large workaround code for an alleged ancient BIOS
1031 bug I have never actually seen. The -s option should work
1032 on those machines, anyway.
1033 * Support for simple keyboard remappings, same as used by
1034 LILO (once again to support localization.) The program
1035 keytab-lilo.pl from the LILO distribution included to
1036 generate such maps.
1037 * Added a "safe, slow and stupid" (-s) option to the
1038 installers. This option will lobotomize the boot sector to
1039 hopefully work on even very buggy BIOSes.
1041 Changes in 1.34:
1042 * Ability to load a VGA font on bootup (for localized Linux
1043 distributions.)
1045 Changes in 1.33:
1046 * Bug fix in the Linux installer.
1047 * Added a workaround for a bug in certain AMI/Intel BIOSes
1048 when booting from CD-ROM.
1049 * Documentation changes.
1051 Changes in 1.32:
1052 * FAT16 filesystems are now supported.
1054 Changes in 1.31:
1055 * Now compiles under Linux, using NASM, rather than using
1056 Turbo Assembler under DOS. See http://www.cryogen.com/Nasm
1057 for information about NASM.
1058 * Linux-hosted SYSLINUX installer, as well as a
1059 rewritten DOS installer (now is written in assembler, so we
1060 don't need Turbo C.)
1062 Changes in 1.30:
1063 * Added support for loading bzImage and initrd loading, and made
1064 SYSLINUX new-setup-code aware (SYSLINUX 1.30 id=0x31).
1065 * Added LILO-style kernel labels; see the LABEL and IMPLICIT
1066 keywords in README file.
1067 * Added support for colorization of intro and help screens.
1068 * The vga= option is now handled correctly.
1069 * Massive rewrite of large chunks of the code in order to
1070 support the first two new features.
1072 Changes in 1.20:
1073 * Added simple online help at the "boot:" prompt.
1074 * Removed 2880K image as I no longer have access to such a
1075 floppy drive. (Donations accepted!!)
1076 * Decided to distribute the source in a subdirectory rather
1077 than in a nested zipfile.
1079 Changes in 1.11:
1080 * Removed a sanity check which would cause booting to fail on
1081 Phoenix BIOS version 4.03. Apparently this BIOS is buggy.
1083 Changes in 1.10:
1084 * Added configuration file SYSLINUX.CFG. This file contains all
1085 configurable options, and can be edited from any OS which can
1086 access an MS-DOS filesystem; there is no longer a need to run
1087 SYSLINUX.EXE except to write the boot sector.
1088 * Default command line now given by "default" line in config
1089 file.
1090 * LINUXMSG.TXT and BOOTMSG.TXT hard-coded file names replaced by
1091 "display" and "prompt" lines in config file.
1092 * LILO-style option appending now supported ("append" line in
1093 config file).
1094 * Prompt timeout is now supported ("timeout" line in config
1095 file). The timeout is cancelled when anything is typed on the
1096 command line.
1097 * Pressing <ESC> or <Ctrl-C> at the Loading... stage now aborts
1098 the kernel loading in progress and returns the user to the
1099 boot: prompt.
1100 * The installer now automatically sets the READONLY flag on
1101 LDLINUX.SYS.
1102 * Added 2880K disk image.
1104 Changes in 1.03:
1105 * Fixed bug that would prevent booting from double-density
1106 floppies and other DOS filesystems with multiple sectors per
1107 cluster.
1108 * Added 720K disk image.
1109 * Changed default kernel name on disk images to LINUX.
1111 Changes in 1.02:
1112 * Fixed bug that would garble the command line on recent kernels
1113 with more than 4 sectors of setup code (this wasn't really a
1114 *bug*; rather, a kernel change broke the code. Unfortunately
1115 the Linux boot interface is still sorely undocumented).
1116 * Added BOOTMSG.TXT file support (message file which does not
1117 force display of the boot prompt).
1119 Changes in 1.01:
1120 * Fixed bug on some (most?) 386 BIOSes would require two boot
1121 attempts.