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Changes for version 24.2 (22-November-2015) - Joachim Wiedorn
Sources
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- Remove compile date and time in binary to support reproducible
builds (thanks to Dmitry Bogatov).
- Remove obsolete hints to /boot/boot.b and other files in README.
- Use system derived types to make code safe for both the 32-bit and
the 64-bit compilation environment. (thanks to TAMUKI Shoichi)
General
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- Update sample config file lilo.example.conf and config element
'password'.
- Upgrade of script liloconfig:
* three steps of tests with three-state exit code
to give the admin more information about failure.
- Update manpage pod files and its manpages.
Changes for version 24.1 (17-October-2014) - Joachim Wiedorn
Documentations
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- Add more information about -R option (one-time command-line).
Sources
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- Only warn if founded bad partition (src/partition.c).
- Install the .dat files of images, too (images/Makefile).
- Fix target 'all' in main Makefile.
- Install lilo.static, too, if existing.
- Add CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS everywhere needed
(useful e.g. for hardening in Debian).
- Add many major device numbers, especially for MMC cards and XVD
disks. Remove obsolete numbers (src/lilo.h, src/geometry.c).
General
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- Use 'lilo -H' in hook scripts to ignore error on degraded mdadm
RAID1 systems (thanks to M. Schnalke).
- Small update of script lilo-uuid-diskid.
- Large upgrade of script liloconfig:
* solve some bugs (see: Debian, Ubuntu)
* now with update function
* now with more tolerant file names of initram
* now with use of kernel links as fallback
- Update example config in lilo.example.conf.
- Update manpage of liloconfig and lilo-uuid-diskid.
- Add hooks for chattr, if vmlinuz files are on xfs filesystems.
Changes for version 24.0 (07-June-2013) - Joachim Wiedorn
Documentations
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- Update of lilo.conf.5 manpage with some corrections.
- Add new manpages as pod files (sources):
* liloconfig.pod (from Debian)
* lilo-uuid-diskid.pod (from Debian)
* lilo.pod (converted from lilo.8)
- Add script man/pod2manpages for converting pod files.
- Create manpages from pod files.
- Deactivate Makefile for docs. Don't generate html/pdf.
- Add complete html documentation for history (v21.5).
Sources
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- Support for kernel images on GPT hard disks in the first 15
partitions, otherwise set comments (src/geometry.c, src/lilo.h)
- Update src/Makefile to always stripping lilo and lilo.static.
General
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- Fix abort problem in script mkrescue. (thanks to S. R. Wright)
- Update script liloconf to find kernel versions 3.x, too.
- Remove some more hints to obsolete OS/2 (source, doc).
- Fix to be compatible to gcc 4.8 and higher (use -ffreestanding)
Changes for version 23.2 (09-Apr-2011) - Joachim Wiedorn
Documentations
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- Optimize documentation generation and information.
- Reformatting mkrescue.8 manpage. (thanks to Martin E. Schauer)
- Update of lilo.conf.5 manpage and remove of OS/2 information.
Sources
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- Remove obsolete BIOS workaround from 2002 (src/second.S)
- Add information about -H option. (src/lilo.c)
- Save errno for second command. (src/device.c)
- Fix missleading error message. (src/geometry.c)
- Remove obsolete OS/2 code. (src/boot.c, src/temp.c)
- Enlarge maximum number of sectors (MAX_SETUPSECS) for
kernel setup code to 63. (src/bootsect.S, src/lilo.h)
- Fix for many small flaws in source code. (Many thanks to
Solar Designer and Vasiliy Kulikov of the openwall project).
General
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- Remove obsolete OS/2 code. (make.vars, src/Makefile)
- Optimize Makefile and src/Makefile for use of $(MAKE).
- Use mktemp utility for floppy image generation in mkrescue.
(Many thanks to Solar Designer and Vasiliy Kulikov of the
openwall project).
- Add new scripts with Makefile (already used for Debian):
* liloconfig (for creating new lilo.conf)
* lilo-uuid-diskid (convert device names to UUID/DiskID)
Changes for version 23.1 (04-Nov-2010) - Joachim Wiedorn
Documentations
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- 'make clean' delete all created documentation files.
- many small typos in manpages.
- Remove obsolete ifpdf definition.
Sources
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- Optimize and update menue header line. (src/crt.S)
- Fix some typos in sources. (src/bsect.c, src/raid.c)
- LVM volume as root device. (src/bsect.c)
- Remove patch for inaccessible disks (src/geometry.c)
and add remarks in README file.
- Better computing size of uncompressed kernel. (src/boot.c)
- Working on degraded RAID device. (src/raid.c)
(thanks to Christian Schöninger)
- Use for MD RAID newer 1.0 specification. (src/geometry.c)
(thanks to Robert de Bath) (src/raid.c)
General
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- Use better 'checkit' for newer gcc. (checkit)
- Remove very old scripts. (mkbdist,mksdist,QuickInst)
- Create new makefile-based script QuickInst.
- Create new hook scripts for kernel and initramfs.
- Add new target 'uninstall' for src, man, hooks.
- Recreate and add background images as uuencoded files and
move images + config files into new 'image' directory.
- Add new file TOOLS listing needed tools / packages.
- Remove all unneeded stuff with old /boot/boot-* files.
- Add new example file for lilo.conf for newer lilo.
Changes for version 23.0 (28-June-2010) - Joachim Wiedorn
Documentations
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- Move very old file INCOMPAT into readme/.
- Update file COPYING with copyrights and license.
- Update copyrights in some file headers.
- Add new files README, TODO, NEWS.
- Fix for some typos in manpages.
- Update some old files in readme/ and docs/.
- Move to creating pdf instead of ps in /docs.
- Add found old manpage man/keytab-lilo.pl.
- Update additional informations (lilo.lsm, sample/README).
- Set static manpage path to /usr/share/man (make.vars).
- Update of the program command logging header.
Sources
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- Fix error messages. (script checkit)
- Allow spaces in boot menu. (bsect.c)
- Workaround for buggy Bios. (probe.c)
- Check for user root. (script mkrescue)
- Use better temporary fifo's (script mkrescue)
- Check for needed floppy space (script mkrescue)
- devmapper should use major/minor. (geometry.c)
- Bios workarounds. (second.S)
- Suppress error message if device does not exist. (geometry.c)
- Change 'map' to 'kmap'. (keytab-lilo.pl)
- Add warnings for inaccessible disk (device.c, geometry.c)
- Modify script mkrescue for use of spaces in files.
- Speedup for geometry (geometry.c)
- Add 'define' for lvm partition (lilo.h, partition.c)
- Don't scan '.udev' directory (device.c)
- Use default size 'hdsize' (script mkrescue)
- Move macro 'S' into 'SA' (crt.S, lilo.c, lilo.h, probe.c, second.S)
- Update min. versions of bcc and gcc. (script checkit)
- Add new option 'small-memory' (cfg.c)
- Differentiate small-memory/large-memory (bsect.c, boot.c)
- Optimize standard logging (bsect.c)
- Update install paths and names for some binaries. (src/Makefile)
- Move the environment variable ROOT to DESTDIR. (src/Makefile)
- Deactivate very old scripts (mkbdist, mksdist, QuickInst)
General
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- Remove link 'COPYRIGHT' to file COPYING.
- Move alle README files into new directory 'readme'.
- Move all source code files into new directory 'src'.
- Split file CHANGES into CHANGELOG and CHANGELOG_old.
- Better check for tool 'mkfs.msdos', for with you must be root.
- Create new main Makefile.
- Move target 'spotless' to 'distclean' in concerned files.
- Move src/Makefile header into extra file make.vars.
- Remove old comments in src/Makefile.
- Displacement from src/Makefile into new man/Makefile.
- Displacement from src/Makefile into dos/Makefile.
- Delete displaced make commands in src/Makefile.
- Update script paths in src/Makefile.
- Update path to bdata.h in files of directoy diagnose.
- Move more variables into make.vars.
- Move target 'test' into main Makefile.
- Update paths in dos/Makefile.
- Displace floppy targets in main and src Makefiles.
- Update paths to files in directory diagnose.
- Better checks in diagnose/Makefile.
- Remove old program 'activate'.
- Use correct path for script mkrescue.
- Target 'all' now without run of 'diagnostic' and 'dosexe'.
- Optimize warnings while running target 'diagnostic'.
- Renumber the pseudo targets.
- Move commands for target 'diagnostic' into src/Makefile.
Changes from version 22.7.3 to 22.8 (16-Feb-2007) John Coffman
Boot Installer
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- Move configuration information (-X) to a separate procedure.
(lilo.c)
- Fix type decl problem in LVM _IOR/RW macros. (geometry.c)
- Add DEV_DISK_DIR and edit source to use it. (config.h,
device.c, geometry.c)
- Change handling of 'device-mapper' depending upon DEVMAPPER
option. (device.c, geometry.c)
- Modify 'scan_dir' to stay out of hidden directories. (device.c)
- Add 'nodevcache' option to configuration file. (cfg.c, lilo.c)
- Add sync() before boot sector write to compensate for 2.6 kernel
bug in partition buffering code. (bsect.c)
- Allow 'root="UUID=xyz"' syntax. (bsect.c)
Boot Loader
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- Add compilation switch 'NOVGA' to the Makefile.
Changes from version 22.7.2 to 22.7.3 (11-Aug-2006) John Coffman
Boot Installer
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- Make with changed compile-time options does not affect source
checksums. (Makefile)
- Remove device 253 from max_partitions[]. (device.c, 22.7.2.1)
- Install device-mapper patches. (geometry.c, Makefile)
- Correct setting of the VIRTUAL & NOKBD flags. (bsect.c)
Changes from version 22.7.1 to 22.7.2 (05-Jul-2006) John Coffman
Boot Installer
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- Add "noraid" keyword to suppress automatic marking of members
of a full-disk RAID array as "inaccessible".
- Add '-H' switch to override abort on RAID1 install to a failed
array. (raid.c, lilo.c, common.c, common.h)
- Add check for DM_RAID (aka ATA_RAID); warn about manual marking
of disk drives as "inaccessible". (device.c)
- Add 'geo_query_dev' support for 31-partition devices. (geometry.c)
- Add "Warning:'s" counter. (common.c, common.h, & *.c)
- Disable 'nowarn' when verbose >= 3. (lilo.c)
- Davide BIOS bug (sectors [1..63] -> [1..64]) (probe.c)
- Add keywords 'nokbdefault' & 'nokbdisable' on compilation switch
based upon input from Alberto Mardegan <mardy@users.sourceforge.net>.
(cfg.c, bsect.c, lilo.h)
- Add second stage flags: VIRTUAL & NOKBD whenever any 'virtual' or
'nokeyboard' keyword is used. (lilo.h, bsect.c)
Boot Loader
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- Davide BIOS bug (sectors [1..63] -> [1..64]) (first.S, read.S)
- Implement 'nokbdefault' & 'nokbdisable' (second.S)
- Add cli/sti to keyboard detection code (second.S)
- Fix timeout bug if 'ONE_SHOT' compile option is omitted. (second.S)
- Add marker (space) between initrd/kernel loading dots. (second.S)
- Observe second stage flags: VIRTUAL & NOKBD. Do not touch hardware
unless corresponding flag is set. (second.S)
- Allow DEBUG_NEW version to compile READONLY. (read.S)
- Increase kernel command line to 512 bytes. (bsect.c, probe.c, lilo.h,
second.S)
Utilities
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- Add check of FS register to Diagnostic 2 (diagnose/test4.c)
- Change 'master' determination for --iso; log config file
with --debug (mkrescue)
- Create 'checkit' script to check for versions of gcc, as86,
ld86, and bcc. (checkit)
- Davide BIOS bug (sectors [1..63] -> [1..64]) (disk.S, test4.c)
Changes from version 22.7 to 22.7.1 (17-Sep-2005) John Coffman
Boot Installer
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- Add check that "vmdefault" image does exist. (bsect.c, lilo.c)
- Use 512/4095 major devices (up from 255). (geometry.c, device.c,
geometry.h)
Boot Loader
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- Fix "vmdefault=" bug in MENU and BITMAP interfaces. (second.S)
- Allow any keyboard strike (not just Shift) to escape from
command line, or to display boot menu. (second.S)
Utilities
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- Apply security patch for temp files to mkrescue & QuickInst
- Compensate for missing <msdos/stat.h> in BCC
Changes from version 22.6.1 to 22.7 (12-Apr-2005) John Coffman
Boot Installer
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- Fix reporting of NULL stored default boot command. (lilo.c)
- Allow "unsafe" on partitions specified by "other=". (boot.c)
- Handle RAID-1 arrays with a failed disk. (raid.c, geometry.c)
Boot Loader
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- Rearrange code in first.S to shorten by 3 (to 0x1B2). (first.S)
- Fix "lock" bug on default image. (second.S)
- Descriptor selection (find_image) based on partial command
line. (second.S, crt.S, bitmap.S)
- Improve "unattended": no selection on partial command; CR can't
stop timeout. (second.S)
Utilities
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- New DOS utility: LILO.COM implements -q -R -V (-C -m) switches.
Changes from version 22.6 to 22.6.1 (17-Nov-2004) John Coffman
Boot Installer
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- Check command line options for CL_LENGTH max (256). (bsect.c)
- Get '-I' switch to recognize 'addappend='. (identify.c)
- Add 'R' flag to '-I' switch to get root. (identify.c)
Boot Loader
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- Enable read-ahead on EDD drives that support the function.
Now a Makefile switch (READAHEAD) (volume.S, Makefile)
- Support BUG_SI_EBDA bugfix for SI controllers that don't properly
allocate the EBDA that they use. (Makefile, second.S, chain.S)
- Correct El-Torito CD emulation termination to use HD/FD device
code. (second.S)
Utilities
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- Update diagnostic 2.2.4 to 2.3; check EDD fn 4Eh subfunctions.
(diagnose/test4.c)
- Update 'mkrescue' (2.5) to get root filesystem from /etc/fstab.
- Update 'mkrescue --iso --size HD' to create a bootable El Torito
format using hard disk emulation. (mkrescue 3.0)
- Add --image option to mkrescue. (mkrescue 3.0)
Changes from version 22.5.9 to 22.6 (01-Sep-2004) John Coffman
Boot Installer
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- Correct check of "append=" substring coincidence. (bsect.c/
check_options)
- add keyword "unattended" to alter timeout operation. (cfg.c,
bsect.c, second.S)
- allow 'timeout' & 'delay' to be specified in 's', 'm', or 'h'.
(lilo.c, common.c)
- change #include <asm/unistd.h> to <linux/unistd.h> (partition.c)
- alter 'new_serial' to seed from time & /dev/urandom (device.c)
- address compilation issues with 2.6 kernels (2.6.6) and glibc
versions 2.0 and 2.1++ (2.3.3). (config.h, partition.h,
partition.c)
- fix "long" -> "int" for compilation on 64-bit systems. (*.h, *.c)
- use "mkloader" so compilation does not depend on NASM. (temp.c)
- add new block devices: emd, sata, scsi9-15. (lilo.h, geometry.c)
- Check 'other=' for a file that is really an image. (boot.c)
- Allow 'root = "LABEL=label"' in config file. (bsect.c)
- Allow -P parameter to contain '='. (lilo.c)
- Add 'addappend=' specification of local kernel parameters
to 'image=' sections. (bsect.c, cfg.c)
- Automatically treat disks beyond the 16th as INACCESSIBLE.
(device.c)
Boot Loader
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- Modify first-stage loader for BIOS that clobbers BX. (first.S)
Utilities
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- Update diagnostic 2.2.4 to to check int 13, fn 8, for register
clobbers. (diagnose/test4.c)
- Change regular expression in 'keytab-lilo.pl' (Debian patch)
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