1 NEWS about project LILO
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3 (For details see file 'CHANGELOG' in the source directory)
6 Version 23.1 (major and bugfix update of 23.0)
8 o Many fixes of typos in sources and documentation.
9 o LVM volumes can now be used as root device.
10 o Better computing of (uncompressed) vmlinux size.
11 o Better working on degraded RAID devices.
12 o Update to newer MD RAID 1.0 specification.
13 o Substituted QuickInst script (mkbdist, mksdist removed).
14 o Added new hook scripts for newer kernel support.
15 o Updated and added new menu background images.
16 o Added new TOOLS file for overview of needed tools / packages.
17 o Added new example of lilo.conf with many comments.
20 Version 23.0 (major and bugfix update of 22.8)
22 o Major code reorganisation and code cleaning.
23 o Add new option 'small-memory' and modify option 'large-memory'.
24 o Configuration without memory option set to auto-memory, which
25 mean a automatic decision: small initrd will be load <15M,
26 large initrd will be load >16M.
27 o Now need an absolute path for the installation path DESTDIR,
28 in the past named as ROOT.
29 o Many bugfixes and sensible updates (most from Debian).
30 o Remove obsolete program 'activate'. Instead use 'lilo -A'.
33 Version 22.8 (minor update of 22.7.3)
35 o Compile with DEVMAPPER (device-mapper or LVM2) if library is present.
36 o Add 'nodevcache' configuration file keyword.
37 o Allow root device specification with UUID in addition to LABEL.
40 Version 22.7.3 (bugfix update of 22.7.2)
42 o Correct table entry for experimental major device 253.
43 o Correct PC/AT keyboard check when NOKEYBOARD compile option is used.
46 Version 22.7.2 (minor update of 22.7.1)
48 o Keywords "noraid", "nokbdefault", "nokbdisable" are added.
49 o Compensate for common BIOS bug (sectors==0) on USB disk drives.
50 o Increase kernel command line to 512 bytes.
53 Version 22.7.1 (minor update of 22.7)
55 o Expand device major/minor numbers to more than 8 bits.
56 o Apply security updates to 'mkrescue' & 'QuickInst'.
57 o Allow any keystrike (not just Shift) to display 'boot:' menu, or to
58 escape from stored command line.
61 Version 22.7 (minor update of 22.6.1)
63 o Add the DOS/Windows utility 'lilo.com' which implements the -q -R -V
64 (-C -m) switches. This utility may be used to set the boot command
65 line if the sector map file is on a DOS/Windows partition.
66 o Add bulletproofing for "unattended" so that a spurious <CR> character
68 o Select boot descriptors based upon partially typed names in all
69 situations except "unattended".