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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 partition.
33 Changes in 3.70:
34 * PXELINUX: Support enhanced capabilities when running on top
35 of gPXE (http://www.etherboot.org/). In particular, support
36 URL-style syntax for filenames, and any protocol that gPXE
37 supports (except, currently, iSCSI and AoE.) This feature
38 is currently highly experimental.
39 * Substantial infrastructure changes to support files whose
40 length aren't known at open time (typically network
41 connections.) Please note that the semantics of some of the
42 comboot APIs have changed slightly; please see doc/comboot.txt.
43 * PXELINUX: We no longer require a TFTP server which supports
44 the tsize option for all transfers.
45 * PXELINUX: Integrate with the gPXE source base; unified image
46 now included as "gpxelinux.0".
47 * The source tree has been restructured; files that were
48 previously in the root have moved into the core, dos, gpxe,
49 and utils directories.
50 * "make install", "make netinstall", and "make extbootinstall"
51 have been updated massively. "make install-all" now installs
52 all three.
53 * Change default dir for auxiliary files from
54 /usr/lib/syslinux to /usr/share/syslinux.
55 * SYSLINUX: VFAT long filename support.
56 * MEMDISK: Any image less than 4096K (4 MB) is treated as a
57 floppy disk. The geometry-guessing code will recognize all
58 common extended formats, but it is still possible some very
59 exotic formats need geometry specification. Large floppies
60 and very small harddisks still need explicit specification.
61 * chain.c32: option "swap" to support swapping of BIOS drive
62 numbers. This is necessary to boot certain operating systems
63 (DOS, Windows) from a secondary drive.
64 * chain.c32: option "file=" to support loading a boot file from
65 the SYSLINUX filesystem instead of loading the boot sector
66 from the drive.
67 * chain.c32: option "seg=" to control the load location.
68 * chain.c32: option "ntldr=" as a shorthand for "seg=0x2000
69 file="; use this to load one of WinNT's loaders:
71 chain.c32 hd0 1 ntldr=/MiniNT/setupldr.bin
73 Note that the file needs to be in the SYSLINUX filesystem.
74 * chain.32: options "freedos=" and "msdos="/"pcdos=" as
75 shorthands for "seg=0x60 file=" and "seg=0x70 file="
76 respectively; use this to load FreeDOS's kernel.sys, MS-DOS's
77 io.sys or PC-DOS's ibmbio.sys.
78 * Change to the A20 algorithm which *MIGHT* help systems that
79 have systems which freeze when Syslinux is used with USB
80 keyboards. Note that this has been hard do verify, so I
81 would greatly appreciate feedback on it.
82 * Complex menu system: unbreak menus which has unnamed
83 submenus, like complex.c.
84 * Fix newline on the serial port for some com32 modules.
85 * chain.c32: support "boot" as the drive specification,
86 indicating the drive from which it was booted
87 (for syslinux/extlinux).
88 * SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX: support "localboot" with the same feature
89 set as ISOLINUX.
90 * Add an experimental MBR for GPT partition tables.
91 * Use $(CC) when determining compile flags.
92 * chain.c32: fix booting from logical partitions (Sergey
93 Vlasov.)
95 Changes in 3.63:
96 * Fix errors in the PCI and DMI detection modules (Erwan Velu,
97 Sebastian Herbszt).
98 * Fix host dependencies and other issues in the build system.
99 * PXELINUX: Allow class E addresses as unicast.
100 * sdi.c32: module to load Microsoft System Deployment Images.
101 For additional information, please see:
102 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms838543.aspx
103 * EXTLINUX: Correct reading directories with deleted entries.
104 * Shuffle library: correct the handling of certain geometries
105 (an upward move with source material blocking the move); as
106 required by sdi.c32 but theoretically possible for other
107 formats as well.
108 * Add "make netinstall" to install /tftpboot.
109 * Fix some documentation files that didn't get moved/renamed.
111 Changes in 3.62:
112 * Clean up garbage after "aborted." message.
113 * Clean up memdump.com filenames.
114 * Support SHA256 and SHA512 encrypted passwords.
115 * The shuffle library now can generate chained descriptors,
116 thus allowing pretty much arbitrarily complex memory maps.
117 * Handle command lines up to 2047 characters, the current
118 Linux kernel limit.
119 * vesamenu: support systems without linear framebuffer support
120 (sigh, what is this, 1993?) and 15-bit RGB modes.
121 * Move the label storage (for the command-line interface) to
122 high memory, removing the size limit and freeing up 64K of
123 low memory.
124 * Get rid of 4096-entry limit in the simple menu system.
125 * New hierarchial submenu support: see MENU BEGIN, MENU END,
126 MENU GOTO in doc/menu.txt.
127 * MENU QUIT allows creating a menu entry for returning to the
128 command line.
129 * ISOLINUX: Work around bug in certain Adaptec BIOSes,
130 patch by Bruce Robson.
131 * pngtopnm dependency removed from samples/ directory.
132 * Text documentation files (in doc/) renamed *.doc -> *.txt.
134 Changes in 3.61:
135 * EXTLINUX: fix crash when accessing an empty file.
136 * elf.c32: If a PHDR segment is present, load it.
137 * Fix SHA-1 and MD5 passwords.
138 * ISOLINUX: fix booting when mastered without
139 mkisofs -boot-info-table (broken since 3.50, sigh...)
140 * Handle BIOSes which emit multiple contiguous valid
141 memory regions in the e820 map.
143 Changes in 3.60:
144 * Support for "auxilliary data vector", a small amount of
145 writable storage. Currently only supported for EXTLINUX,
146 but the infrastructure is there for the other derivatives,
147 assuming a suitable storage location can be found.
148 * EXTLINUX: boot-once support (--once, --clear-once, and
149 --reset-adv).
150 * A command is now required to the EXTLINUX installer, i.e. at
151 least one of --install, --update, --once, --clear-once, or
152 --reset-adv.
154 Changes in 3.55:
155 * PXELINUX: as per RFC 5071, PXELINUX no longer requires the
156 use of the magic cookie option (208) for unencapsulated
157 options. Currently it does not require it for
158 vendor-encapsulated options (vendor-option-space) either,
159 but that MAY be reverted in the future if it causes
160 problems.
161 * Documentation text files moved to a common "doc" directory;
162 man pages from the Debian project added to the "man"
163 directory.
164 * Correct bug with self-overlapping memory areas when using
165 the shuffle interface.
167 Changes in 3.54:
168 * Add "menu separator", "menu indent", "menu disabled"
169 (see README.menu).
170 * vesamenu: fix handing of VESA modes with noncontiguous
171 memory buffers. In particular, Qemu/KVM sets up such a mode
172 when Cirrus Logic emulation is enabled (which is the
173 default.)
174 * Support for calling real mode functions using far calls,
175 with argument on the stack. This was implemented to support
176 the BIOS BBS specification, but subsequent experiments show
177 that the at least one of the most common BIOS cores, Award,
178 passes the presence check but doesn't actually implement the
179 functionality.
181 Changes in 3.53:
182 * Fix bugs related to the $PnP BIOS functionality on some
183 platforms.
184 * PXELINUX: Fix the "naked" version of :: (suppress prefix.)
185 * elf.c32: better error messages.
186 * Faster operation under Intel VT virtualization.
187 * PXELINUX: Fix DHCP bootfile option.
188 * mkdiskimage: Support more than 1024 cylinders.
189 * (Hopefully) fix installer on non-x86 platforms.
190 * Fix shuffle_and_boot_rm, used by linux.c32.
191 * Fix shuffle_and_boot_pm on 386/486.
192 * ISOLINUX (at least): fix bss memory overwrite hang.
193 * MBR: Fix booting from logical partitions.
194 * Code cleanups.
196 Changes in 3.52:
197 * Handle capitalized F-key commands in the menu system.
198 * Fix padding error when loading multiple ramdisks.
199 * Workaround for VMware crashing when trying to print a
200 message during early kernel boot (does not seem to work,
201 consider deleting.)
202 * chain.c32: add the ability to search for a specific MBR
203 signature at runtime.
204 * Fall back to the server identity option if the siaddr field
205 in the DHCP header isn't set. This seems to match the
206 behaviour of most PXE stacks.
207 * mkdiskimage: give the generated disk image an MBR signature.
208 * MEMDISK: Fix failures on some BIOSes.
209 * Simple menu system: new "MENU HIDDEN" option to not display
210 the menu unless the user presses a key.
211 * Simple menu system: support MD5-encrypted passwords (modern
212 Unix standard style, with "$1$" prefixes.)
213 * pcitest.c32: now functions as a full "lspci". Thanks to
214 Erwan Velu for this work.
215 * MEMDISK: Make EDD actually work.
216 * ISOLINUX: Fix for certain broken CD-ROM BIOSes which
217 randomly corrupted register FS.
218 * Simple menu system: fix memory overwrite bug that caused
219 some systems to lock up or behave weirdly.
220 * Fix building on 64-bit systems without a 32-bit libc installed.
222 Changes in 3.51:
223 * EXTLINUX: Fix failure to find the configuration file.
225 Changes in 3.50:
226 * New keywords allow the type of file to be specified in the
227 configuration file.
228 * It is now supported to load a different configuration file
229 with the CONFIG keyword.
230 * Fix API call 0x0019 (Read Disk.)
231 * MENU AUTOBOOT, MENU TABMSG, MENU PASSPROMPT allows
232 internationalization of menu messages.
233 * A new feature, TEXT HELP, allows the administrator to set
234 a multi-line help message for individual selections.
235 * Fix API call 0x0012 (Cleanup, shuffle and boot.)
236 * New API call "Cleanup, shuffle and boot to flat protected mode"
237 * New API call "Cleanup, shuffle and boot to real mode",
238 similar to API call 0x0012 but allows arbitrary register setting.
239 * Introduce a library interface for loading arbitrary binary
240 formats with relatively easily understood code. See
241 the elf.c32 module for an example on how to use it.
242 * New module "elf.c32", to load a protected-mode ELF kernel.
243 * MBR (old and new): Fix bug in CHS mode when LBA >
244 65535*sectors.
245 * vesamenu: fix decoding of palettized PNG images.
246 * Update the Linux kernel boot protocol.
247 * PXELINUX: Press Ctrl-N at the boot prompt to read out the
248 network info.
249 * Instead of the (non-existent) MAC, use the client identifier
250 for networks like Infiniband and Firewire/1394.
251 * Add a new INCLUDE command to the core syslinux parser.
252 * Allow binding help text to F11 and F12.
253 * F-key help now available in the simple menu system.
254 * Disabled the polling for ARP during idle. It is simply too
255 slow on some (broken!) PXE stacks.
256 * PXELINUX: also try to fetch the config file based on UUID.
257 * SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX: New RAID mode (-r) which calls the BIOS
258 to load the next device (typically the next drive) on boot
259 failure.
261 Changes in 3.36:
262 * MEMDISK: Disable EDD by default on floppy disks. EDD can be
263 enabled with the "edd" option and disabled with "noedd".
264 This (hopefully) should make Ghost work again.
265 * SYSLINUX: "unix" installer now uses Linux ioctls instead of
266 using libfat.
267 * New MBR which can boot from logical partitions.
268 * SYSLINUX: Fix bug in detecting special extensions which was
269 introduced in 3.35 :(
270 * PXELINUX: Unbreak chainbooting FreeBSD (and possibly others.)
272 Changes in 3.35:
273 * MEMDISK: New "safeint" mode.
274 * MEMDISK: Be more compliant with the PnP BIOS spec.
275 * MEMDISK: Turn on EDD support by default.
276 * MEMDISK: Try to work on some machines on which it would not
277 work when there was no floppy drive in the system.
278 * Simple menu system: fix serial console support (broken in
279 3.30).
280 * SYSLINUX: Support subdirectories. Like ISOLINUX, the
281 "current directory" is the directory in which syslinux.cfg
282 is found; this is searched for in the sequence
283 /boot/syslinux, /syslinux, /. As a side benefit, label names
284 like "linux-2.6.18" and "linux-2.6.19" are now supported.
286 To install ldlinux.sys in a subdirectory, pass the -d
287 directory option to the SYSLINUX installer.
289 This work was sponsored by slax.org (thanks, Tomas!)
290 * New API call: read disk.
291 * Invoke ONERROR on initrd load failure.
293 Changes in 3.31:
294 * The simple menu system (menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32) now
295 support loading more than one configuration file at a time,
296 using MENU INCLUDE or by specifying multiple filenames.
297 * The MENU COLOR statement can now control the shadowing mode.
299 Changes in 3.30:
300 * libcom32 extended to support graphics mode and graphical console.
301 * vesamenu.c32, new graphical version of the Simple
302 Menu System, see README.menu.
303 * New com32 modules by Erwan Velu do selection based on CPUID
304 or PCI devices present.
305 * RPM spec: add syslinux-tftpboot module; move syslinux by
306 default to the /usr/share/syslinux directory.
307 * RPM spec: extlinux is now a separate package.
309 Changes in 3.20:
310 * EXTLINUX: New options --install (-i) and --update (-U), to
311 make it clear if a boot loader should be installed or
312 updated. For now, defaults to --install for compatibility;
313 a future version will require one of these options.
314 * New library functions to load and place files in memory.
315 * mboot.c32 bug fixes.
316 * Remove 8 MB kernel size restriction.
317 * Add "klibc" target for building unix/syslinux and
318 extlinux/extlinux with klcc (klibc-1.4.27 or later.)
319 * PXELINUX: Fail (and eventually reboot) if no configuration
320 file was found.
321 * COM32 module by Erwan Velu to make decisions based on DMI
322 info.
323 * Fix issue where going back and forth between menus a lot
324 would cause a hang.
325 * ISOLINUX: Fix bug which made "cd boot sectors" not work.
327 Changes in 3.11:
328 * MEMDISK: Fix bug by which accessing the real floppy disk
329 as B: in MS-DOS was broken.
330 * Simple menu system: allow tweaking of the screen layout.
331 * Simple menu system: better command-line editing, correctly
332 handle command lines above 256 characters.
333 * PXELINUX: revert memory allocation change that caused
334 problems on some network cards.
335 * MEMDISK: Try work around a bug on some BIOSes when no
336 physical floppy disk is present in the system.
337 * Enable the 16550A FIFOs, if present, when doing serial
338 console.
339 * New "totaltimeout" command establishes a timeout without
340 regard for any user input.
341 * Simple menu system: timeout behaviour now more in line with
342 user expectations.
343 * Simple menu system: "ontimeout" should now work correctly.
345 Changes in 3.10:
346 * gcc 4.0.1 compilation fixes.
347 * Add support for querying the PCI BIOS in libcom32
348 (used by ethersel et al.)
349 * Fix PCI handing (ethersel etc) on several old chipsets (and
350 VMWare.)
351 * Try to deal with systems with broken EBIOS.
352 * New API call to do "localboot".
353 * New API call to query features.
354 * New API call to run kernel image, a lower-level call than
355 "run command". See comboot.doc.
356 * Fix for bug in EBIOS code discovered by Arwin Vosselman.
357 * NOESCAPE security fix.
358 * Comments are now recognized even without a space following #.
359 * Fix incorrect handling of mixes of entries with and without
360 MENU PASSWD.
361 * The idle API call now harmlessly returns failure if it is a
362 no-op. That way the caller can decide whether or not to
363 bother invoking it again.
364 * Temporarily disable the idle API call on PXELINUX, due to
365 some platforms on which the idle API call seems to hang; this
366 problem has not yet been debugged.
367 * MEMDISK: the handling of DOSEMU-headered images was broken;
368 fix it.
369 * EXTLINUX: symlinks are now supported.
370 * Simple menu system: N and P now work correctly as hotkeys.
371 * MEMDISK: more BIOS bug workarounds.
373 Changes in 3.09:
374 * gcc4 compilation fix.
375 * <BEL> (Ctrl-G) in message files now causes a beep.
376 * Reduce the command line to 511 characters; 1023 caused
377 memory overflows.
379 Changes in 3.08:
380 * SYSLINUX: Fix performance regression (-s mode always
381 enabled.)
382 * Add API function for idle loop.
383 * libutil: Add do_idle() function for idle loop, make
384 get_key() use it.
385 * libutil: Add SHA-1 and base64 functions.
386 * Simple menu system: add password support.
387 * EXTLINUX: Sparse files now handled correctly.
388 * EXTLINUX: Large directories now handled correctly.
389 * ALL: At the prompt, Ctrl-X now forces text mode.
390 * Fix configuration file parsing error, that could cause
391 hangs.
392 * Rewritten advanced menuing system from Murali Ganapathy.
393 * MEMDISK: New "bigraw" mode to work around certain broken
394 BIOS flash programs.
395 * COM32 module to boot Multiboot systems, including Xen. See
396 com32/modules/mboot.doc.
397 * Max command line changed to 1023 characters. Note that the
398 kernel proper still can only handle 255 characters without
399 patching, and COM16 binaries can only handle 125 characters.
401 Changes in 3.07:
402 * Fix chainloading (chain.c32).
403 * Fix zlib build problem.
404 * Use a private copy of <linux/ext2_fs.h>.
406 Changes in 3.06:
407 * Fix typo that caused the ramdisk to load in the wrong place.
409 Changes in 3.05:
410 * New API function "shuffle and boot"; allows COM32 modules to
411 load or construct (almost) arbitrarily complex objects,
412 e.g. a kernel and its initrd/initramfs in pieces, and have
413 the API core reorganize memory for booting. (A library API
414 for this function will be introduced in a later version.)
415 * The initrd= option now supports multiple filenames separated
416 by commas. This is mostly useful for initramfs, which can
417 be composed of multiple separate cpio or cpio.gz archives.
418 (Note: all files except the last one are zero-padded to a 4K
419 page boundary. This should not affect initramfs.)
420 * EXTLINUX: Fix API function 000Ah (get derivative-specific
421 info).
422 * libcom32/ethersel: Support PCI Config Mechanism #2 on
423 machines still infested with that hideous old hack.
424 * SYSLINUX: Fix directory-parsing bug.
426 Changes in 3.02:
427 * SYSLINUX: The "unix" installer now sets the MS-DOS
428 attributes (hidden, system, readonly.)
429 * COM32 library: build the .lnx (test modules for running
430 under Linux) as architecture native modules, in case
431 i386 devel libraries aren't installed.
432 * EXTLINUX: Hack for systems which don't have BLKGETSIZE64
433 defined in the standard header files.
434 * Simple menu system: minor aestetic improvements, and try to
435 work better over a serial console (speed, and readability on
436 monochrome terminal emulators.)
437 * New CONSOLE directive to control output on the video console
438 (useful for dealing with some broken serial-forwarding
439 BIOSes.)
440 * New com32 module "ethersel" for searching for an Ethernet
441 card and selecting the proper version of Etherboot.
442 * EXTLINUX: Allow the user to override the detected geometry.
443 Add help.
445 Changes in 3.01:
446 * EXTLINUX, SYSLINUX: Fix compile errors on some systems.
447 * EXTLINUX: Default to zipdrive geometry (64 heads, 32
448 sectors) if no other geometry can be detected.
450 Changes in 3.00:
451 * SYSLINUX: Support FAT32 and EDD. As an unfortunate
452 consequence, LDLINUX.SYS is no longer an ordinary file; it
453 is block-mapped at install time, which means it can only be
454 written using the syslinux installers.
455 * SYSLINUX: Reorganize the source code for the installers;
456 each one of the installers (dos, win32, unix, mtools) is now
457 built in its own subdirectory. In particular, "mtools" is
458 the unprivileged installer which uses mtools; "unix" is the
459 privileged installer which uses system calls.
460 * SYSLINUX: Completely rewritten DOS installer in C.
461 * ALL: "label" statement information is now stored in a
462 compressed format, which means that a lot more labels are
463 permitted (500-1000 in a typical configuration, but depends
464 on the complexity.)
465 * EXTLINUX: New derivative, which boots from an ext2/ext3
466 filesystem.
467 * SYSLINUX: The DOS and Win32 installers can now optionally
468 write the boot sector to a file instead of the real boot
469 sector. This is not supported in the Linux installers,
470 however.
471 * ALL: New NOESCAPE command, disables the "hold down the Shift
472 key to display the prompt" behaviour.
473 * New simple menu system, as an alternative to the advanced
474 menu system already present. See README.menu for details.
475 * PXELINUX: Filenames can now be prefixed with an IP address
476 or DNS name plus :: (e.g. 192.0.2.1::filename or
477 server.domain.com::filename), which downloads a file from an
478 alternate TFTP server, or just a :: (e.g. ::filename), which
479 suppresses the common pathname prefix. See pxelinux.doc.
480 * SYSLINUX: Add an -m option to the DOS and Win32 installers
481 to write an MBR and -a to mark the partition SYSLINUX is
482 being installed on active.
483 * MEMDISK: Give a way to query the boot loader type while
484 running MEMDISK; see memdisk/memdisk.doc and
485 sample/mdiskchk.c.
486 * mkdiskimage: substantially improved mkdiskimage which, among
487 other things, can now be used to initialize USB keys as
488 zipdrives; see README.usbkey for more information.
490 Changes in 2.13:
491 * MEMDISK: Fix command-line parsing "brown paper bag" class
492 bug.
493 * MEMDISK: Add "raw" mode to support the DOS boot disk from
494 WinME/XP, which seems to deliberately crash the system
495 when someone uses the "INT 15h mover" highmem API.
496 * Make "make install" do something sane for the com32
497 development environment.
498 * In the spec file, create a separate -devel RPM for the com32
499 development environment.
501 Changes in 2.12:
502 * Simple C library, based on klibc, for writing COM32
503 programs.
504 * Fix the handling of file length in loading of COM32
505 programs.
506 * MEMDISK: Work around a linker bug by rearranging the code to
507 not use the linker for the 16-bit code.
508 * SYSLINUX: If we're building on a machine without a Win32
509 (mingw) compiler, just skip building syslinux.exe.
510 * ISOLINUX: Support non-mkisofs mastering programs, at least
511 as long as the image is single-session. For best results,
512 ISOLINUX should be the only boot loader installed.
513 * MEMDISK: Allow the user to specify that the simulated disk
514 should be write-protected.
516 Changes in 2.11:
517 * ALL: Add an API call to get the configuration file name.
518 * SYSLINUX: Fix bug in 2.10 that prevented it from working
519 correctly for a lot of people.
520 * SYSLINUX: In the installer, make mtools a bit less fussy.
521 * Make the menu system compile with newer gcc's.
523 Changes in 2.10:
524 * MEMDISK: Handle images compressed with zip as well as with
525 gzip. Some Windows-based image tools apparently generate
526 these kinds of images by default. Patch by Patrick
527 LoPresti.
528 * Major menu improvement from Murali Ganapathy.
529 * ISOLINUX: Wonderfully sick and brilliant workaround for
530 severe bugs in certain Award BIOSes; from Knut Petersen.
531 * SYSLINUX: Fix for the nomtools installed, from Frederic
532 Pasteleurs.
533 * PXELINUX: Fix handling of IP numbers in the ranges
534 100-109 and 200-209.
535 * ALL: New option "allowoptions" (defaults to 1), which
536 controls if options are allowed on the command line or not.
537 * SYSLINUX: Support building under klibc (see the klibc
538 distribution for details.)
540 Changes in 2.09:
541 * SYSLINUX: Remove residual setuid crap from
542 syslinux-nomtools.
543 * Handle video pages correctly when using the API functions.
544 * Handle compiling on an x86-64 platform correctly.
545 * Menu system from Murali Krishnan Ganapathy; see the menu
546 directory for information.
547 * COMBOOT: Allow COMBOOT programs to change screen text mode.
548 * COMBOOT: Correct the documentation of how to detect
549 SYSLINUX from COMBOOT!!!!
550 * COMBOOT: Fix "get key without echo" API function.
551 * SYSLINUX: Fix bug that affected the API open function.
552 * ALL: Improve the E820 memory parser, to work around some
553 buggy BIOSes.
555 Changes in 2.08:
556 * Add new configuration command "ontimeout" to allow timeout
557 to have a different action than just pressing Enter.
558 * Add new configuration command "onerror" to allow a custom
559 command to be executed in case the kernel image is not found.
560 * Fix bugs in the COMBOOT/COM32 command-line parsing. APPEND
561 now works with COMBOOT/COM32 images.
562 * PXELINUX: Poll for ARP requests while sitting at the
563 prompt. This makes some boot servers a lot less unhappy.
564 * PXELINUX: Actually free sockets when we get a failure
565 (including file not found.) This bug would cause us to run
566 out of sockets and thus "go deaf" after a while.
567 * MEMDISK: Add an API to query for the existence of MEMDISK.
568 * SYSLINUX: Fix loading boot sectors (.bs/.bss) from floppy
569 disk.
570 * .c32 is now one of the extensions searched for
571 automatically.
572 * PXELINUX: RFBG.exe seems to randomly overwrite memory
573 location 0x5700. Thus, don't use it!
574 * PXELINUX: Change pathname length max from 63 to 127; change
575 max vkernels from 128 to 64.
576 * Support Ctrl-U -> kill entire command line input.
577 * The "samples" directory contains a (barely at all tested)
578 chain loading example, chain.c32, which may be used to
579 chainload local floppy disks and hard disks. Use with
580 "chain fdN" or "chain hdN [partition]"; N = 0 for the first
581 drive of each type.
583 Changes in 2.07:
584 * MEMDISK: Workaround for BIOSes which go into a snit when
585 they get a RESET command for the floppy system when there is
586 no floppy in the system.
587 * PXELINUX: Add "ipappend 2", which passes the hardware
588 address of the boot interface to the kernel as a
589 command-line option.
590 * mkdiskimage: fix the generation of the end limit.
591 * PXELINUX: Fix multiple bugs in chainloading of other NBPs.
592 * MEMDISK: Fix bug that would occationally cause "ran out of
593 input data" when using compressed disk images.
594 * SYSLINUX: Updates for the win32 installer (from Lars Munch.)
595 * PXELINUX: PXELINUX-specific options are now recognized both
596 in a vendor-option-space (a.k.a. type 43 encapsulated) as
597 well as in a site-option-space (unencapsulated.)
598 * COM32: Don't crash when DS != 0.
599 * COMBOOT/COM32: Make file reading work correctly. Thanks to
600 Phung Chi Kien for submitting a test program.
602 Changes in 2.06:
603 * ALL: Fix problem that would occationally cause a
604 boot failure, depending on the length of the kernel.
605 * ISOLINUX: Fix problem that would occationally cause a
606 boot failure, depending on the length of directories.
607 * SYSLINUX: Win32 installer now flushes buffers.
608 * ppmtolss16: Be fully compliant with the PNM spec;
609 actually process comments in the header and odd
610 alignments of the various parameters, as well as
611 "plain" (not raw) files and PBM and PGM files.
612 * PXELINUX: Lower the default MTU to 1472 in order to deal
613 with systems with slightly nonstandard MTUs, and PXE
614 stacks which don't defragment correctly. Unfortunately this
615 is very hard to test dynamically.
617 Changes in 2.05:
618 * PXELINUX: Add a default query based on the hardware address
619 of the boot device. This is in lower case hexadecimal form
620 separated by dashes and including the hardware type, for
621 example, the Ethernet (type 1) address 88:99:AA:BB:CC:DD
622 would query the file pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-dd.
623 * PXELINUX: Fix bug involving non-IP-based config file names.
624 * SYSLINUX: New installer for WinNT-based systems, from Lars
625 Munch.
626 * MEMDISK: Fix handling of memory region overlap when
627 decompressing. Thanks to Mikhail Kupchik for identifying
628 the problem.
630 Changes in 2.04:
631 * ALL: Reclaim even more low memory by observing that
632 comboot_seg == real_mode_seg is perfectly fine, and by the
633 fact that the 1000h segment managed to get unused in all
634 derivatives...
635 * PXELINUX: Attempt to negotiate full Ethernet-sized blocks
636 (1468 bytes) using the blksize option.
637 * SYSLINUX: Resurrect the old no-mtools version of the
638 installer, although as a root-only tool. Some distributors
639 have indicated that they need a small standalone installer.
640 * MEMDISK: Fix a memory offset computation error when
641 installing compressed disks which generally would cause
642 1 MB of memory to be wasted.
643 * MEMDISK: Fix installing the E820 memory map. Calling
644 INT 15h AX=0E820h with MEMDISK 2.03 loaded would give a
645 completely corrupt memory map.
646 * SYSLINUX: Make libsyslinux a dynamic library, so that it can
647 be updated separately from client programs. The whole idea,
648 after all, is to enable alternate programs to become
649 syslinux installers.
650 * Include an rpm spec file in the distribution, so rpmbuild
651 -ta works.
653 Changes in 2.03:
654 * Actually support comment lines in the configuration file.
655 * PXELINUX: Try to resolve some problems with stack switches.
656 * PXELINUX: Handle PXE stacks with broken routing.
657 With these workarounds, the remote install PXE boot floppy
658 (rbfg.exe) from Argon Technologies should work correctly.
659 * Fix problems with Perl scripts in UTF-8 locales.
660 * You probably need NASM 0.98.34 or later to compile this
661 version. 0.98.36 is recommended.
662 * MEMDISK: Now supports gzip compressed images.
664 Changes in 2.02:
665 * SYSLINUX: Security flaws have been found in the SYSLINUX
666 installer when running setuid root. Rewrite the SYSLINUX
667 installer so it uses mtools instead. It therefore now
668 requires mtools (specifically mcopy and mattrib) to exist on
669 your system, but it will not require root privileges and
670 SHOULD NOT be setuid.
672 Changes in 2.01:
673 * MEMDISK: Fix memory sizing bug when the ramdisk crosses the
674 16 MB boundary.
675 * MEMDISK: Add a "pause" option to stop immediately before
676 booting, to read off the messages.
677 * MEMDISK: Support disk images with DOSEMU headers.
678 * Update the mkdiskimage script to handle newer mtools
679 versions, and be able to generate disk images with DOSEMU
680 headers (controlled by the -d option).
681 * Fix the COM32 sample program.
682 * PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Fix some COMBOOT API calls.
683 * PXELINUX: Doc fix.
684 * Build SYSLINUX into a small library for encapsulation into
685 other programs (however, please keep in mind this is a GPL'd
686 library.)
687 * SYSLINUX: Make installer work with "owner" in /etc/fstab.
688 * SYSLINUX: Fix issue with working on nonpartitioned hard disk
689 devices. THIS CONFIGURATION IS NOT RECOMMENDED.
691 Changes in 2.00:
692 * ALL: Add support for "COM32" (32-bit COMBOOT) images.
693 * ALL: Add an API for COMBOOT/COM32 images. See comboot.doc
694 for details. There is a C development environment for
695 COM32 being created; it should be ready at some point in
696 the future.
697 * Fix mbr.asm so that it actually works.
698 * SYSLINUX: The syslinux installer *SHOULD* now be safe to
699 run setuid root.
700 * PXELINUX: Fix bug where PXELINUX would override random
701 chunks of the UNDI code segment! Thanks to Kevin Tran for
702 finding this bug.
703 * ISOLINUX: Fix a bug related to slashes in pathnames.
704 * ISOLINUX: Fix a bug in handling initrds over 128 MB.
705 * ALL: Make the <Ctrl-V> key print out the version; this is
706 to help debugging.
707 * Add a small script, mkdiskimage, to create a DOS-formatted
708 hard disk image using mtools. This may be useful in
709 conjunction with MEMDISK.
710 * ISOLINUX: Search for a /boot/isolinux directory as well as
711 /isolinux.
712 * ALL: Fix a bug related to very long configuration files.
713 * PXELINUX: Work around a NASM bug which would result in no
714 delay before reset if an error occurs.
716 Changes in 1.76:
717 * ISOLINUX: Remove code no longer used which caused hangs on
718 some Toshiba laptops.
720 Changes in 1.75:
721 * ALL: NASM 0.98.32 or later is now required to build
722 SYSLINUX from sources.
723 * SYSLINUX: put back in the workaround for the BIOS floppy
724 table. This seems to be a requirement for "extended" floppy
725 formats to work correctly.
726 * SYSLINUX: No longer warn if one is trying to boot on a 286
727 or older. The above BIOS workaround no longer fits if the
728 requirement to use only 8086-compatible code in the early
729 boot is maintained. It made sense in 1994, but in 2002 a
730 286 or older is a museum object.
731 * SYSLINUX: Use a downright bizarre, stateful algorithm to try
732 to guess the maximum transfer size. I am *hoping* this will
733 cut down on the number of systems for which -s is required
734 to work at any acceptable speed.
735 * ISOLINUX: Add a few more workarounds for various broken El
736 Torito BIOSes.
737 * Make sure .depend files aren't accidentally packed...
738 * ALL: Fix bugs in the extension-detect code; this caused
739 files like COMBOOT images and CD boot sectors to be
740 mis-identified as Linux kernels and rejected.
741 * ALL: Fix the return from COMBOOT.
742 * ALL: Do some of the early groundwork for supporting DOS
743 system calls in COMBOOT.
744 * Get rid of unnecessary "near" directives, making the code
745 bigger.
746 * PXELINUX: Put the PXE stack back in the init state before
747 invoking a chain-loaded NBP.
748 * PXELINUX: Actually found the combination of calls that
749 allows some (most?) PXE 2+ stacks to be unloaded from memory
750 properly.
751 * PXELINUX: Add "keeppxe" command-line option to disable
752 the standard unloading of the PXE stack.
754 Changes in 1.74:
755 * SYSLINUX: fix bug that would cause valid kernel images to be
756 labelled "invalid".
758 Changes in 1.73:
759 * Work on removing gratuitous differences between modules.
760 * Break up the source in common and module-specific files.
761 * PXELINUX: Allow chaining of other PXE NBPs.
762 * ISOLINUX: Allow loading "CD-ROM boot sectors".
763 * ALL: generalize the definition of a boot sector/NBP.
765 Changes in 1.72:
766 * PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Fix bugs in the new core code.
768 Changes in 1.71:
769 * Fix a "brown paper bag" class bug in the new core code.
771 Changes in 1.70:
772 * Major code restructuring.
773 * Relax the conventional memory limits somewhat.
774 * MEMDISK: Set up the "version number string" pointer in the
775 header correctly.
776 * SYSLINUX: Fix, again, "the bug that won't die": the use of
777 the offset parameter with the SYSLINUX installer.
778 * SYSLINUX: Fix possible superblock corruption problem in the
779 SYSLINUX installer.
781 Changes in 1.67:
782 * Handle bug in the location of initrd.
784 Changes in 1.66:
785 * MEMDISK: Make compile with newer versions of gcc.
787 Changes in 1.65:
788 * ISOLINUX: Support booting disk image files (to boot DOS or
789 other non-Linux operating systems), *IF* the BIOS works
790 correctly; unfortunately many BIOSes apparently don't.
791 * Support Linux boot protocol version 2.03 (explicitly
792 specify the initrd address limit.)
793 * Handle small "pseudo-kernels"; images that use the Linux
794 kernel boot protocols but are less than 64K in size.
795 * MEMDISK: New subsystem; this is a driver which allows
796 legacy OSes to boot using an in-memory simulated disk.
797 See memdisk/memdisk.doc for more info.
798 * PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Correctly handle files larger than 65535
799 blocks (32 MB for PXELINUX, 128 MB for ISOLINUX.)
800 * PXELINUX: Make a best-effort attempt at freeing all memory
801 claimed. From the looks of it, it will fail on most PXE
802 stacks.
804 Changes in 1.64:
805 * Limited support for hardware flow control when using a
806 serial port console.
807 * Support specifying the serial port I/O address explicitly.
808 * Make DOS installer hopefully behave more nicely when used on
809 recent Windows versions.
810 * Fix returning to text mode when a font has been specified.
811 * Attempt to detect missing serial port hardware and disable
812 the serial port if there is nothing there.
814 Changes in 1.63:
815 * Make the ppmtolss16 program handle color conversion more
816 correctly.
817 * Clean up "make install" target, honour INSTALLROOT if it
818 exists.
819 * SYSLINUX: Fix stack-smash bug identified by Steffen
820 Winterfeldt.
821 * Hopefully fix return-to-text-mode on some graphics cards.
822 * ISOLINUX: Bug workaround for Award BIOS 4.51, and perhaps
823 other buggy BIOSes as well.
825 Changes in 1.62:
826 * PXELINUX: Allow the DHCP server to override the
827 configuration file name and pathname prefix, using
828 "site-specific" DHCP options.
829 * PXELINUX: Documentation fixes.
830 * PXELINUX: Fix the "ipappend" option; the last two values
831 were reversed vs. what the kernel expected.
832 * Introduce a way to return to text mode once we are already
833 in graphics mode. This may be useful for F-key help
834 screens.
835 * Fix several bugs in the way return to text mode was handled.
837 Changes in 1.61:
838 * ISOLINUX: Support full pathname searches. Max length for a
839 pathname is 255 characters. As a result, only 64 "label"
840 statements are supported in ISOLINUX.
841 * PXELINUX: Max filename length extended to 63 characters.
843 Changes in 1.60:
844 * Add support for graphical splash screens.
845 * Add mode control characters, which allows you to control
846 message display output depending on output mode (text,
847 graphics, or serial port.)
848 * ISOLINUX: New program, which boots Linux from a CD-ROM
849 without using floppy emulation mode. See isolinux.doc for
850 more details.
851 * PXELINUX: Don't search for boot sector file types, since
852 they don't work anyway.
853 * SYSLINUX: Document the LOCK command for Win9x, and the error
854 dialog box for WinNT/2K.
856 Changes in 1.54:
857 * PXELINUX: Fix code for finding !PXE from PXENV+. This was
858 due to a spec bug; match the most recent spec since that
859 seems to be what implementations actually do.
860 * SYSLINUX: Add some smarts to the boot sector, which
861 hopefully should reduce the number of systems which require
862 stupid mode ("syslinux -s").
863 * PXELINUX: Document further some of the pathologies with old
864 PXE stacks.
865 * When specifying a "default" command line, no longer
866 automatically appent "auto". See the "DEFAULT" command in
867 syslinux.doc for more information.
868 * PXELINUX: Clean up the allocation of local socket numbers.
870 Changes in 1.53:
871 * PXELINUX: Rename pxelinux.bin to pxelinux.0, to match what
872 most PXE servers seem to expect.
873 * PXELINUX: Update the DHCP/boot server setup documentation.
874 * PXELINUX: Support new "localboot" option for "label"
875 sections.
876 * PXELINUX: More robust parsing of DHCP/boot server packets.
877 * PXELINUX: Include a small utility program "gethostip" to
878 compute hexadecimal IP addresses.
880 Changes in 1.52:
881 * PXELINUX: Fix bugs introduced by new A20 code. (SYSLINUX
882 has also been changed for code consistency reasons, but I'm
883 pretty sure the changes are don't care on SYSLINUX.)
884 * Documentation updates.
885 * PXELINUX: Add "ipappend" option to generate an ip= option to
886 the kernel.
888 Changes in 1.51:
889 * PXELINUX: Not all PXE stacks fill in the IP address for a
890 type 3 cached info query. Use a type 2 cached info query
891 for this information (only.)
892 * Yet another attempt at A20 coding. Now support BIOS call
893 15:2401 as well, and handle machines which always have A20
894 on separately.
895 * Support memory detection using INT 15h, AX=0E820h. BIOS
896 manufacturers have apparently gotten sloppy about keeping
897 INT 15h, AX=0E801h working properly.
898 * Don't issue <CR><LF> onto the serial port when we're doing
899 screen wraparound.
901 Changes in 1.50:
902 * Yet another A20-code update. It seems some "legacy-free"
903 machines and embedded gear simply don't have a KBC to talk
904 to, and that waiting for one will wait forever. Sigh.
906 Changes in 1.49:
907 * SYSLINUX: Implement a hack for BIOS drivers which hog significant
908 chunks of low memory during boot. (Note: PXELINUX already
909 had this modification. SYSLINUX does still require that the
910 low 512K is available; PXELINUX requires 384K. Machines
911 with a physical memory hole in the low 640K cannot boot
912 Linux no matter what.) Depending what the reason is for the
913 memory hole, a new kernel (2.4.0-test3-pre3 or later) may be
914 required.
915 * SYSLINUX: Default installer binary now compiled against
916 glibc 2.1. If this is inappropriate for your system and you
917 still want to use the offical version of SYSLINUX, please
918 follow the instructions in "distrib.doc" to rebuild the
919 installer.
920 * SYSLINUX: Linux installer program now supports -o <offset>
921 option which does a loopback mount with the
922 -o loop,offset=<> option. Useful to run SYSLINUX on an
923 individual partition of a whole-harddisk image.
924 * Include the source code to a Master Boot Record (MBR)
925 functionally equivalent to the one installed DOS except it
926 includes EBIOS support, and should be resistant to geometry
927 changes. The MBR code is public domain.
928 * PXELINUX: Fix "double p" bug: if the tftp prefix was null,
929 all filenames would get a "p" preprended, e.g.
930 "ppxelinux.cfg" and "pvmlinux".
932 Changes in 1.48:
933 * PXELINUX: Workaround for PXE ROMs based on the Intel PXE PDK
934 3.0 build 071 and earlier: missing !PXE structure pointer.
935 * PXELINUX: Handle larger BOOTP/DHCP packages.
936 * PXELINUX: The command line passing was broken; fix.
937 * PXELINUX: Make COMBOOT images work.
938 * PXELINUX: Documentation on how to make booting work using
939 the PDK 3.0-derived clients, which aren't so generous as to
940 allow booting with only "PXEClient" specified.
942 Changes in 1.47:
943 * PXELINUX: RFC 1123 states that a TFTP implementation MUST
944 use adaptive timeout, "at least an exponential backoff of
945 retransmission timeout is necessary." Implement a very
946 simple exponential backoff for retransmits.
947 * PXELINUX: Updated documentation, including pointer to new
948 TFTP server.
949 * PXELINUX: When sending ERROR due to bad OACK, use the proper
950 destination port number (why are TFTP port numbers so odd?)
951 * PXELINUX: If the boot dies in the middle somewhere,
952 eventually give up and reset the machine (unattended
953 operation.)
955 Changes in 1.46:
956 * New program PXELINUX to do network booting using a
957 PXE-compliant (Pre-Execution Environment) network booting
958 PROM. See pxelinux.doc for details.
960 Changes in 1.45:
961 * Serial console support. See syslinux.doc for details.
963 Changes in 1.44:
964 * Change HIGHMEM_MAX to 38000000h to (hopefully) avoid the
965 kernel stepping on it; 3f000000h was apparently a higher
966 limit than the kernel used!
968 Changes in 1.43:
969 * Add sys2ansi.pl script to display the contents of a
970 colorized SYSLINUX file.
971 * Changed the io_delay once again, after a report that the
972 old delay port causes hangs on some systems.
974 Changes in 1.42:
975 * Frob the "fast A20 gate" port as well as the keyboard
976 controller; will this help systems with problems?
977 * Be even more paranoid about A20, unfortunately even this
978 seems to be not paranoid enough... what I don't understand
979 is that if there is hardware out there *this broken*, how
980 can it run Linux at all? Report an error message rather
981 than hang forever if A20 is stuck.
982 * Include some intermediate files in the distribution, plus
983 provide a "make installer" target for distributors to relink
984 the install programs only. I would prefer the syslinux boot
985 loader proper to be "binary clean" for debuggablity -- use
986 "make clean ; make installer" to rebuild the installers only.
988 Changes in 1.41:
989 * Don't get confused by directories, volume labels, or VFAT
990 long names.
991 * Use INT 15h, AX=0E801h to query memory size before trying
992 INT 15h, AH=88h. This not only provides more headroom
993 between the kernel and the initrd on large-memory machines,
994 but it appears some recent BIOSes actually have started
995 returning garbage for the AH=88h (older) call.
996 * Trust high memory beyond the 15 MB mark if the user has
997 specified it, or if obtained with INT 15h, AH=0E801h (with
998 no memory holes above 1 MB.)
1000 Changes in 1.40:
1001 * Increase A20M delay and put in a test to avoid problems on
1002 certain IBM Thinkpads (thanks to Donnie Barnes of RedHat
1003 for vital info on this one.)
1004 * Support COMBOOT style boot command images.
1005 * Support chain loading (foreign operating systems, e.g. DOS).
1006 * Include a new "copybs" DOS utility to copy a boot sector to
1007 a file (under Linux, use "dd".)
1008 * Fix the DOS installer to work for disks over 32 MB.
1009 * SYSLINUX should now handle disks with more than 65536 tracks.
1011 Changes in 1.37:
1012 * Fix a bug that caused "label" statements in syslinux.cfg to
1013 not be handled properly.
1014 * Updated the documentation. Among other things, we now allow
1015 up to 128 "label" statements.
1017 Changes in 1.36:
1018 * Fix for booting old (pre-initrd) kernels.
1019 * It seems at least some versions of OS/2 doesn't set up all
1020 the fields in the superblock correctly. Account for that.
1021 * Fix bug that caused boot failure when using the mem= option.
1023 Changes in 1.35:
1024 * Loading from partitions now should work properly. (Actually
1025 tested, this time. You should even be able to dd a floppy
1026 to a partition and boot from it.)
1027 * Removed large workaround code for an alleged ancient BIOS
1028 bug I have never actually seen. The -s option should work
1029 on those machines, anyway.
1030 * Support for simple keyboard remappings, same as used by
1031 LILO (once again to support localization.) The program
1032 keytab-lilo.pl from the LILO distribution included to
1033 generate such maps.
1034 * Added a "safe, slow and stupid" (-s) option to the
1035 installers. This option will lobotomize the boot sector to
1036 hopefully work on even very buggy BIOSes.
1038 Changes in 1.34:
1039 * Ability to load a VGA font on bootup (for localized Linux
1040 distributions.)
1042 Changes in 1.33:
1043 * Bug fix in the Linux installer.
1044 * Added a workaround for a bug in certain AMI/Intel BIOSes
1045 when booting from CD-ROM.
1046 * Documentation changes.
1048 Changes in 1.32:
1049 * FAT16 filesystems are now supported.
1051 Changes in 1.31:
1052 * Now compiles under Linux, using NASM, rather than using
1053 Turbo Assembler under DOS. See http://www.cryogen.com/Nasm
1054 for information about NASM.
1055 * Linux-hosted SYSLINUX installer, as well as a
1056 rewritten DOS installer (now is written in assembler, so we
1057 don't need Turbo C.)
1059 Changes in 1.30:
1060 * Added support for loading bzImage and initrd loading, and made
1061 SYSLINUX new-setup-code aware (SYSLINUX 1.30 id=0x31).
1062 * Added LILO-style kernel labels; see the LABEL and IMPLICIT
1063 keywords in README file.
1064 * Added support for colorization of intro and help screens.
1065 * The vga= option is now handled correctly.
1066 * Massive rewrite of large chunks of the code in order to
1067 support the first two new features.
1069 Changes in 1.20:
1070 * Added simple online help at the "boot:" prompt.
1071 * Removed 2880K image as I no longer have access to such a
1072 floppy drive. (Donations accepted!!)
1073 * Decided to distribute the source in a subdirectory rather
1074 than in a nested zipfile.
1076 Changes in 1.11:
1077 * Removed a sanity check which would cause booting to fail on
1078 Phoenix BIOS version 4.03. Apparently this BIOS is buggy.
1080 Changes in 1.10:
1081 * Added configuration file SYSLINUX.CFG. This file contains all
1082 configurable options, and can be edited from any OS which can
1083 access an MS-DOS filesystem; there is no longer a need to run
1084 SYSLINUX.EXE except to write the boot sector.
1085 * Default command line now given by "default" line in config
1086 file.
1087 * LINUXMSG.TXT and BOOTMSG.TXT hard-coded file names replaced by
1088 "display" and "prompt" lines in config file.
1089 * LILO-style option appending now supported ("append" line in
1090 config file).
1091 * Prompt timeout is now supported ("timeout" line in config
1092 file). The timeout is cancelled when anything is typed on the
1093 command line.
1094 * Pressing <ESC> or <Ctrl-C> at the Loading... stage now aborts
1095 the kernel loading in progress and returns the user to the
1096 boot: prompt.
1097 * The installer now automatically sets the READONLY flag on
1098 LDLINUX.SYS.
1099 * Added 2880K disk image.
1101 Changes in 1.03:
1102 * Fixed bug that would prevent booting from double-density
1103 floppies and other DOS filesystems with multiple sectors per
1104 cluster.
1105 * Added 720K disk image.
1106 * Changed default kernel name on disk images to LINUX.
1108 Changes in 1.02:
1109 * Fixed bug that would garble the command line on recent kernels
1110 with more than 4 sectors of setup code (this wasn't really a
1111 *bug*; rather, a kernel change broke the code. Unfortunately
1112 the Linux boot interface is still sorely undocumented).
1113 * Added BOOTMSG.TXT file support (message file which does not
1114 force display of the boot prompt).
1116 Changes in 1.01:
1117 * Fixed bug on some (most?) 386 BIOSes would require two boot
1118 attempts.