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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 2.09:
6 * SYSLINUX: Remove residual setuid crap from
7 syslinux-nomtools.
8 * Handle video pages correctly when using the API functions.
9 * Handle compiling on an x86-64 platform correctly.
10 * Menu system from Murali Krishnan Ganapathy; see the menu
11 directory for information.
12 * COMBOOT: Allow COMBOOT programs to change screen text mode.
13 * COMBOOT: Correct the documentation of how to detect
14 SYSLINUX from COMBOOT!!!!
15 * COMBOOT: Fix "get key without echo" API function.
16 * SYSLINUX: Fix bug that affected the API open function.
18 Changes in 2.08:
19 * Add new configuration command "ontimeout" to allow timeout
20 to have a different action than just pressing Enter.
21 * Add new configuration command "onerror" to allow a custom
22 command to be executed in case the kernel image is not found.
23 * Fix bugs in the COMBOOT/COM32 command-line parsing. APPEND
24 now works with COMBOOT/COM32 images.
25 * PXELINUX: Poll for ARP requests while sitting at the
26 prompt. This makes some boot servers a lot less unhappy.
27 * PXELINUX: Actually free sockets when we get a failure
28 (including file not found.) This bug would cause us to run
29 out of sockets and thus "go deaf" after a while.
30 * MEMDISK: Add an API to query for the existence of MEMDISK.
31 * SYSLINUX: Fix loading boot sectors (.bs/.bss) from floppy
32 disk.
33 * .c32 is now one of the extensions searched for
34 automatically.
35 * PXELINUX: RFBG.exe seems to randomly overwrite memory
36 location 0x5700. Thus, don't use it!
37 * PXELINUX: Change pathname length max from 63 to 127; change
38 max vkernels from 128 to 64.
39 * Support Ctrl-U -> kill entire command line input.
40 * The "samples" directory contains a (barely at all tested)
41 chain loading example, chain.c32, which may be used to
42 chainload local floppy disks and hard disks. Use with
43 "chain fdN" or "chain hdN [partition]"; N = 0 for the first
44 drive of each type.
46 Changes in 2.07:
47 * MEMDISK: Workaround for BIOSes which go into a snit when
48 they get a RESET command for the floppy system when there is
49 no floppy in the system.
50 * PXELINUX: Add "ipappend 2", which passes the hardware
51 address of the boot interface to the kernel as a
52 command-line option.
53 * mkdiskimage: fix the generation of the end limit.
54 * PXELINUX: Fix multiple bugs in chainloading of other NBPs.
55 * MEMDISK: Fix bug that would occationally cause "ran out of
56 input data" when using compressed disk images.
57 * SYSLINUX: Updates for the win32 installer (from Lars Munch.)
58 * PXELINUX: PXELINUX-specific options are now recognized both
59 in a vendor-option-space (a.k.a. type 43 encapsulated) as
60 well as in a site-option-space (unencapsulated.)
61 * COM32: Don't crash when DS != 0.
62 * COMBOOT/COM32: Make file reading work correctly. Thanks to
63 Phung Chi Kien for submitting a test program.
65 Changes in 2.06:
66 * ALL: Fix problem that would occationally cause a
67 boot failure, depending on the length of the kernel.
68 * ISOLINUX: Fix problem that would occationally cause a
69 boot failure, depending on the length of directories.
70 * SYSLINUX: Win32 installer now flushes buffers.
71 * ppmtolss16: Be fully compliant with the PNM spec;
72 actually process comments in the header and odd
73 alignments of the various parameters, as well as
74 "plain" (not raw) files and PBM and PGM files.
75 * PXELINUX: Lower the default MTU to 1472 in order to deal
76 with systems with slightly nonstandard MTUs, and PXE
77 stacks which don't defragment correctly. Unfortunately this
78 is very hard to test dynamically.
80 Changes in 2.05:
81 * PXELINUX: Add a default query based on the hardware address
82 of the boot device. This is in lower case hexadecimal form
83 separated by dashes and including the hardware type, for
84 example, the Ethernet (type 1) address 88:99:AA:BB:CC:DD
85 would query the file pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-dd.
86 * PXELINUX: Fix bug involving non-IP-based config file names.
87 * SYSLINUX: New installer for WinNT-based systems, from Lars
88 Munch.
89 * MEMDISK: Fix handling of memory region overlap when
90 decompressing. Thanks to Mikhail Kupchik for identifying
91 the problem.
93 Changes in 2.04:
94 * ALL: Reclaim even more low memory by observing that
95 comboot_seg == real_mode_seg is perfectly fine, and by the
96 fact that the 1000h segment managed to get unused in all
97 derivatives...
98 * PXELINUX: Attempt to negotiate full Ethernet-sized blocks
99 (1468 bytes) using the blksize option.
100 * SYSLINUX: Resurrect the old no-mtools version of the
101 installer, although as a root-only tool. Some distributors
102 have indicated that they need a small standalone installer.
103 * MEMDISK: Fix a memory offset computation error when
104 installing compressed disks which generally would cause
105 1 MB of memory to be wasted.
106 * MEMDISK: Fix installing the E820 memory map. Calling
107 INT 15h AX=0E820h with MEMDISK 2.03 loaded would give a
108 completely corrupt memory map.
109 * SYSLINUX: Make libsyslinux a dynamic library, so that it can
110 be updated separately from client programs. The whole idea,
111 after all, is to enable alternate programs to become
112 syslinux installers.
113 * Include an rpm spec file in the distribution, so rpmbuild
114 -ta works.
116 Changes in 2.03:
117 * Actually support comment lines in the configuration file.
118 * PXELINUX: Try to resolve some problems with stack switches.
119 * PXELINUX: Handle PXE stacks with broken routing.
120 With these workarounds, the remote install PXE boot floppy
121 (rbfg.exe) from Argon Technologies should work correctly.
122 * Fix problems with Perl scripts in UTF-8 locales.
123 * You probably need NASM 0.98.34 or later to compile this
124 version. 0.98.36 is recommended.
125 * MEMDISK: Now supports gzip compressed images.
127 Changes in 2.02:
128 * SYSLINUX: Security flaws have been found in the SYSLINUX
129 installer when running setuid root. Rewrite the SYSLINUX
130 installer so it uses mtools instead. It therefore now
131 requires mtools (specifically mcopy and mattrib) to exist on
132 your system, but it will not require root privileges and
133 SHOULD NOT be setuid.
135 Changes in 2.01:
136 * MEMDISK: Fix memory sizing bug when the ramdisk crosses the
137 16 MB boundary.
138 * MEMDISK: Add a "pause" option to stop immediately before
139 booting, to read off the messages.
140 * MEMDISK: Support disk images with DOSEMU headers.
141 * Update the mkdiskimage script to handle newer mtools
142 versions, and be able to generate disk images with DOSEMU
143 headers (controlled by the -d option).
144 * Fix the COM32 sample program.
145 * PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Fix some COMBOOT API calls.
146 * PXELINUX: Doc fix.
147 * Build SYSLINUX into a small library for encapsulation into
148 other programs (however, please keep in mind this is a GPL'd
149 library.)
150 * SYSLINUX: Make installer work with "owner" in /etc/fstab.
151 * SYSLINUX: Fix issue with working on nonpartitioned hard disk
152 devices. THIS CONFIGURATION IS NOT RECOMMENDED.
154 Changes in 2.00:
155 * ALL: Add support for "COM32" (32-bit COMBOOT) images.
156 * ALL: Add an API for COMBOOT/COM32 images. See comboot.doc
157 for details. There is a C development environment for
158 COM32 being created; it should be ready at some point in
159 the future.
160 * Fix mbr.asm so that it actually works.
161 * SYSLINUX: The syslinux installer *SHOULD* now be safe to
162 run setuid root.
163 * PXELINUX: Fix bug where PXELINUX would override random
164 chunks of the UNDI code segment! Thanks to Kevin Tran for
165 finding this bug.
166 * ISOLINUX: Fix a bug related to slashes in pathnames.
167 * ISOLINUX: Fix a bug in handling initrds over 128 MB.
168 * ALL: Make the <Ctrl-V> key print out the version; this is
169 to help debugging.
170 * Add a small script, mkdiskimage, to create a DOS-formatted
171 hard disk image using mtools. This may be useful in
172 conjunction with MEMDISK.
173 * ISOLINUX: Search for a /boot/isolinux directory as well as
174 /isolinux.
175 * ALL: Fix a bug related to very long configuration files.
176 * PXELINUX: Work around a NASM bug which would result in no
177 delay before reset if an error occurs.
179 Changes in 1.76:
180 * ISOLINUX: Remove code no longer used which caused hangs on
181 some Toshiba laptops.
183 Changes in 1.75:
184 * ALL: NASM 0.98.32 or later is now required to build
185 SYSLINUX from sources.
186 * SYSLINUX: put back in the workaround for the BIOS floppy
187 table. This seems to be a requirement for "extended" floppy
188 formats to work correctly.
189 * SYSLINUX: No longer warn if one is trying to boot on a 286
190 or older. The above BIOS workaround no longer fits if the
191 requirement to use only 8086-compatible code in the early
192 boot is maintained. It made sense in 1994, but in 2002 a
193 286 or older is a museum object.
194 * SYSLINUX: Use a downright bizarre, stateful algorithm to try
195 to guess the maximum transfer size. I am *hoping* this will
196 cut down on the number of systems for which -s is required
197 to work at any acceptable speed.
198 * ISOLINUX: Add a few more workarounds for various broken El
199 Torito BIOSes.
200 * Make sure .depend files aren't accidentally packed...
201 * ALL: Fix bugs in the extension-detect code; this caused
202 files like COMBOOT images and CD boot sectors to be
203 mis-identified as Linux kernels and rejected.
204 * ALL: Fix the return from COMBOOT.
205 * ALL: Do some of the early groundwork for supporting DOS
206 system calls in COMBOOT.
207 * Get rid of unnecessary "near" directives, making the code
208 bigger.
209 * PXELINUX: Put the PXE stack back in the init state before
210 invoking a chain-loaded NBP.
211 * PXELINUX: Actually found the combination of calls that
212 allows some (most?) PXE 2+ stacks to be unloaded from memory
213 properly.
214 * PXELINUX: Add "keeppxe" command-line option to disable
215 the standard unloading of the PXE stack.
217 Changes in 1.74:
218 * SYSLINUX: fix bug that would cause valid kernel images to be
219 labelled "invalid".
221 Changes in 1.73:
222 * Work on removing gratuitous differences between modules.
223 * Break up the source in common and module-specific files.
224 * PXELINUX: Allow chaining of other PXE NBPs.
225 * ISOLINUX: Allow loading "CD-ROM boot sectors".
226 * ALL: generalize the definition of a boot sector/NBP.
228 Changes in 1.72:
229 * PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Fix bugs in the new core code.
231 Changes in 1.71:
232 * Fix a "brown paper bag" class bug in the new core code.
234 Changes in 1.70:
235 * Major code restructuring.
236 * Relax the conventional memory limits somewhat.
237 * MEMDISK: Set up the "version number string" pointer in the
238 header correctly.
239 * SYSLINUX: Fix, again, "the bug that won't die": the use of
240 the offset parameter with the SYSLINUX installer.
241 * SYSLINUX: Fix possible superblock corruption problem in the
242 SYSLINUX installer.
244 Changes in 1.67:
245 * Handle bug in the location of initrd.
247 Changes in 1.66:
248 * MEMDISK: Make compile with newer versions of gcc.
250 Changes in 1.65:
251 * ISOLINUX: Support booting disk image files (to boot DOS or
252 other non-Linux operating systems), *IF* the BIOS works
253 correctly; unfortunately many BIOSes apparently don't.
254 * Support Linux boot protocol version 2.03 (explicitly
255 specify the initrd address limit.)
256 * Handle small "pseudo-kernels"; images that use the Linux
257 kernel boot protocols but are less than 64K in size.
258 * MEMDISK: New subsystem; this is a driver which allows
259 legacy OSes to boot using an in-memory simulated disk.
260 See memdisk/memdisk.doc for more info.
261 * PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Correctly handle files larger than 65535
262 blocks (32 MB for PXELINUX, 128 MB for ISOLINUX.)
263 * PXELINUX: Make a best-effort attempt at freeing all memory
264 claimed. From the looks of it, it will fail on most PXE
265 stacks.
267 Changes in 1.64:
268 * Limited support for hardware flow control when using a
269 serial port console.
270 * Support specifying the serial port I/O address explicitly.
271 * Make DOS installer hopefully behave more nicely when used on
272 recent Windows versions.
273 * Fix returning to text mode when a font has been specified.
274 * Attempt to detect missing serial port hardware and disable
275 the serial port if there is nothing there.
277 Changes in 1.63:
278 * Make the ppmtolss16 program handle color conversion more
279 correctly.
280 * Clean up "make install" target, honour INSTALLROOT if it
281 exists.
282 * SYSLINUX: Fix stack-smash bug identified by Steffen
283 Winterfeldt.
284 * Hopefully fix return-to-text-mode on some graphics cards.
285 * ISOLINUX: Bug workaround for Award BIOS 4.51, and perhaps
286 other buggy BIOSes as well.
288 Changes in 1.62:
289 * PXELINUX: Allow the DHCP server to override the
290 configuration file name and pathname prefix, using
291 "site-specific" DHCP options.
292 * PXELINUX: Documentation fixes.
293 * PXELINUX: Fix the "ipappend" option; the last two values
294 were reversed vs. what the kernel expected.
295 * Introduce a way to return to text mode once we are already
296 in graphics mode. This may be useful for F-key help
297 screens.
298 * Fix several bugs in the way return to text mode was handled.
300 Changes in 1.61:
301 * ISOLINUX: Support full pathname searches. Max length for a
302 pathname is 255 characters. As a result, only 64 "label"
303 statements are supported in ISOLINUX.
304 * PXELINUX: Max filename length extended to 63 characters.
306 Changes in 1.60:
307 * Add support for graphical splash screens.
308 * Add mode control characters, which allows you to control
309 message display output depending on output mode (text,
310 graphics, or serial port.)
311 * ISOLINUX: New program, which boots Linux from a CD-ROM
312 without using floppy emulation mode. See isolinux.doc for
313 more details.
314 * PXELINUX: Don't search for boot sector file types, since
315 they don't work anyway.
316 * SYSLINUX: Document the LOCK command for Win9x, and the error
317 dialog box for WinNT/2K.
319 Changes in 1.54:
320 * PXELINUX: Fix code for finding !PXE from PXENV+. This was
321 due to a spec bug; match the most recent spec since that
322 seems to be what implementations actually do.
323 * SYSLINUX: Add some smarts to the boot sector, which
324 hopefully should reduce the number of systems which require
325 stupid mode ("syslinux -s").
326 * PXELINUX: Document further some of the pathologies with old
327 PXE stacks.
328 * When specifying a "default" command line, no longer
329 automatically appent "auto". See the "DEFAULT" command in
330 syslinux.doc for more information.
331 * PXELINUX: Clean up the allocation of local socket numbers.
333 Changes in 1.53:
334 * PXELINUX: Rename pxelinux.bin to pxelinux.0, to match what
335 most PXE servers seem to expect.
336 * PXELINUX: Update the DHCP/boot server setup documentation.
337 * PXELINUX: Support new "localboot" option for "label"
338 sections.
339 * PXELINUX: More robust parsing of DHCP/boot server packets.
340 * PXELINUX: Include a small utility program "gethostip" to
341 compute hexadecimal IP addresses.
343 Changes in 1.52:
344 * PXELINUX: Fix bugs introduced by new A20 code. (SYSLINUX
345 has also been changed for code consistency reasons, but I'm
346 pretty sure the changes are don't care on SYSLINUX.)
347 * Documentation updates.
348 * PXELINUX: Add "ipappend" option to generate an ip= option to
349 the kernel.
351 Changes in 1.51:
352 * PXELINUX: Not all PXE stacks fill in the IP address for a
353 type 3 cached info query. Use a type 2 cached info query
354 for this information (only.)
355 * Yet another attempt at A20 coding. Now support BIOS call
356 15:2401 as well, and handle machines which always have A20
357 on separately.
358 * Support memory detection using INT 15h, AX=0E820h. BIOS
359 manufacturers have apparently gotten sloppy about keeping
360 INT 15h, AX=0E801h working properly.
361 * Don't issue <CR><LF> onto the serial port when we're doing
362 screen wraparound.
364 Changes in 1.50:
365 * Yet another A20-code update. It seems some "legacy-free"
366 machines and embedded gear simply don't have a KBC to talk
367 to, and that waiting for one will wait forever. Sigh.
369 Changes in 1.49:
370 * SYSLINUX: Implement a hack for BIOS drivers which hog significant
371 chunks of low memory during boot. (Note: PXELINUX already
372 had this modification. SYSLINUX does still require that the
373 low 512K is available; PXELINUX requires 384K. Machines
374 with a physical memory hole in the low 640K cannot boot
375 Linux no matter what.) Depending what the reason is for the
376 memory hole, a new kernel (2.4.0-test3-pre3 or later) may be
377 required.
378 * SYSLINUX: Default installer binary now compiled against
379 glibc 2.1. If this is inappropriate for your system and you
380 still want to use the offical version of SYSLINUX, please
381 follow the instructions in "distrib.doc" to rebuild the
382 installer.
383 * SYSLINUX: Linux installer program now supports -o <offset>
384 option which does a loopback mount with the
385 -o loop,offset=<> option. Useful to run SYSLINUX on an
386 individual partition of a whole-harddisk image.
387 * Include the source code to a Master Boot Record (MBR)
388 functionally equivalent to the one installed DOS except it
389 includes EBIOS support, and should be resistant to geometry
390 changes. The MBR code is public domain.
391 * PXELINUX: Fix "double p" bug: if the tftp prefix was null,
392 all filenames would get a "p" preprended, e.g.
393 "ppxelinux.cfg" and "pvmlinux".
395 Changes in 1.48:
396 * PXELINUX: Workaround for PXE ROMs based on the Intel PXE PDK
397 3.0 build 071 and earlier: missing !PXE structure pointer.
398 * PXELINUX: Handle larger BOOTP/DHCP packages.
399 * PXELINUX: The command line passing was broken; fix.
400 * PXELINUX: Make COMBOOT images work.
401 * PXELINUX: Documentation on how to make booting work using
402 the PDK 3.0-derived clients, which aren't so generous as to
403 allow booting with only "PXEClient" specified.
405 Changes in 1.47:
406 * PXELINUX: RFC 1123 states that a TFTP implementation MUST
407 use adaptive timeout, "at least an exponential backoff of
408 retransmission timeout is necessary." Implement a very
409 simple exponential backoff for retransmits.
410 * PXELINUX: Updated documentation, including pointer to new
411 TFTP server.
412 * PXELINUX: When sending ERROR due to bad OACK, use the proper
413 destination port number (why are TFTP port numbers so odd?)
414 * PXELINUX: If the boot dies in the middle somewhere,
415 eventually give up and reset the machine (unattended
416 operation.)
418 Changes in 1.46:
419 * New program PXELINUX to do network booting using a
420 PXE-compliant (Pre-Execution Environment) network booting
421 PROM. See pxelinux.doc for details.
423 Changes in 1.45:
424 * Serial console support. See syslinux.doc for details.
426 Changes in 1.44:
427 * Change HIGHMEM_MAX to 38000000h to (hopefully) avoid the
428 kernel stepping on it; 3f000000h was apparently a higher
429 limit than the kernel used!
431 Changes in 1.43:
432 * Add sys2ansi.pl script to display the contents of a
433 colorized SYSLINUX file.
434 * Changed the io_delay once again, after a report that the
435 old delay port causes hangs on some systems.
437 Changes in 1.42:
438 * Frob the "fast A20 gate" port as well as the keyboard
439 controller; will this help systems with problems?
440 * Be even more paranoid about A20, unfortunately even this
441 seems to be not paranoid enough... what I don't understand
442 is that if there is hardware out there *this broken*, how
443 can it run Linux at all? Report an error message rather
444 than hang forever if A20 is stuck.
445 * Include some intermediate files in the distribution, plus
446 provide a "make installer" target for distributors to relink
447 the install programs only. I would prefer the syslinux boot
448 loader proper to be "binary clean" for debuggablity -- use
449 "make clean ; make installer" to rebuild the installers only.
451 Changes in 1.41:
452 * Don't get confused by directories, volume labels, or VFAT
453 long names.
454 * Use INT 15h, AX=0E801h to query memory size before trying
455 INT 15h, AH=88h. This not only provides more headroom
456 between the kernel and the initrd on large-memory machines,
457 but it appears some recent BIOSes actually have started
458 returning garbage for the AH=88h (older) call.
459 * Trust high memory beyond the 15 MB mark if the user has
460 specified it, or if obtained with INT 15h, AH=0E801h (with
461 no memory holes above 1 MB.)
463 Changes in 1.40:
464 * Increase A20M delay and put in a test to avoid problems on
465 certain IBM Thinkpads (thanks to Donnie Barnes of RedHat
466 for vital info on this one.)
467 * Support COMBOOT style boot command images.
468 * Support chain loading (foreign operating systems, e.g. DOS).
469 * Include a new "copybs" DOS utility to copy a boot sector to
470 a file (under Linux, use "dd".)
471 * Fix the DOS installer to work for disks over 32 MB.
472 * SYSLINUX should now handle disks with more than 65536 tracks.
474 Changes in 1.37:
475 * Fix a bug that caused "label" statements in syslinux.cfg to
476 not be handled properly.
477 * Updated the documentation. Among other things, we now allow
478 up to 128 "label" statements.
480 Changes in 1.36:
481 * Fix for booting old (pre-initrd) kernels.
482 * It seems at least some versions of OS/2 doesn't set up all
483 the fields in the superblock correctly. Account for that.
484 * Fix bug that caused boot failure when using the mem= option.
486 Changes in 1.35:
487 * Loading from partitions now should work properly. (Actually
488 tested, this time. You should even be able to dd a floppy
489 to a partition and boot from it.)
490 * Removed large workaround code for an alleged ancient BIOS
491 bug I have never actually seen. The -s option should work
492 on those machines, anyway.
493 * Support for simple keyboard remappings, same as used by
494 LILO (once again to support localization.) The program
495 keytab-lilo.pl from the LILO distribution included to
496 generate such maps.
497 * Added a "safe, slow and stupid" (-s) option to the
498 installers. This option will lobotomize the boot sector to
499 hopefully work on even very buggy BIOSes.
501 Changes in 1.34:
502 * Ability to load a VGA font on bootup (for localized Linux
503 distributions.)
505 Changes in 1.33:
506 * Bug fix in the Linux installer.
507 * Added a workaround for a bug in certain AMI/Intel BIOSes
508 when booting from CD-ROM.
509 * Documentation changes.
511 Changes in 1.32:
512 * FAT16 filesystems are now supported.
514 Changes in 1.31:
515 * Now compiles under Linux, using NASM, rather than using
516 Turbo Assembler under DOS. See http://www.cryogen.com/Nasm
517 for information about NASM.
518 * Linux-hosted SYSLINUX installer, as well as a
519 rewritten DOS installer (now is written in assembler, so we
520 don't need Turbo C.)
522 Changes in 1.30:
523 * Added support for loading bzImage and initrd loading, and made
524 SYSLINUX new-setup-code aware (SYSLINUX 1.30 id=0x31).
525 * Added LILO-style kernel labels; see the LABEL and IMPLICIT
526 keywords in README file.
527 * Added support for colorization of intro and help screens.
528 * The vga= option is now handled correctly.
529 * Massive rewrite of large chunks of the code in order to
530 support the first two new features.
532 Changes in 1.20:
533 * Added simple online help at the "boot:" prompt.
534 * Removed 2880K image as I no longer have access to such a
535 floppy drive. (Donations accepted!!)
536 * Decided to distribute the source in a subdirectory rather
537 than in a nested zipfile.
539 Changes in 1.11:
540 * Removed a sanity check which would cause booting to fail on
541 Phoenix BIOS version 4.03. Apparently this BIOS is buggy.
543 Changes in 1.10:
544 * Added configuration file SYSLINUX.CFG. This file contains all
545 configurable options, and can be edited from any OS which can
546 access an MS-DOS filesystem; there is no longer a need to run
547 SYSLINUX.EXE except to write the boot sector.
548 * Default command line now given by "default" line in config
549 file.
550 * LINUXMSG.TXT and BOOTMSG.TXT hard-coded file names replaced by
551 "display" and "prompt" lines in config file.
552 * LILO-style option appending now supported ("append" line in
553 config file).
554 * Prompt timeout is now supported ("timeout" line in config
555 file). The timeout is cancelled when anything is typed on the
556 command line.
557 * Pressing <ESC> or <Ctrl-C> at the Loading... stage now aborts
558 the kernel loading in progress and returns the user to the
559 boot: prompt.
560 * The installer now automatically sets the READONLY flag on
561 LDLINUX.SYS.
562 * Added 2880K disk image.
564 Changes in 1.03:
565 * Fixed bug that would prevent booting from double-density
566 floppies and other DOS filesystems with multiple sectors per
567 cluster.
568 * Added 720K disk image.
569 * Changed default kernel name on disk images to LINUX.
571 Changes in 1.02:
572 * Fixed bug that would garble the command line on recent kernels
573 with more than 4 sectors of setup code (this wasn't really a
574 *bug*; rather, a kernel change broke the code. Unfortunately
575 the Linux boot interface is still sorely undocumented).
576 * Added BOOTMSG.TXT file support (message file which does not
577 force display of the boot prompt).
579 Changes in 1.01:
580 * Fixed bug on some (most?) 386 BIOSes would require two boot
581 attempts.