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| author | hpa <hpa> | 1998-02-14 00:41:06 +0000 |
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| committer | hpa <hpa> | 1998-02-14 00:41:06 +0000 |
| commit | 24ae9b2f5ff68a06df423cb1ad5b7098e1c07276 (patch) | |
| tree | 5819912111bbca9155e08efe9eafa1fe70376665 | |
| parent | e67aea1c0ccd3cc08a9110386d9b75b281941907 (diff) | |
| download | syslinux-24ae9b2f5ff68a06df423cb1ad5b7098e1c07276.tar.gz | |
Documentation updates for 1.32 releasesyslinux-1.32
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | syslinux.doc | 6 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Changes in 1.32: - * FAT16 is now supported. + * FAT16 filesystems are now supported. Changes in 1.31: * Now compiles under Linux, using NASM, rather than using @@ -5,8 +5,13 @@ SYSLINUX now builds in a Linux environment, using nasm. You need nasm version 0.97 or later to build SYSLINUX from source. See http://www.cryogen.com/Nasm for information about nasm. +There is now a mailing list for SYSLINUX. See the end of syslinux.doc +for details. + +**** WARNING: READ THIS IF YOU'RE USING A 2.1.x EXPERIMENTAL KERNEL **** + WARNING: There seems to be a bug in some recent experimental Linux kernels that causes floppy disk corruption when using the Linux syslinux installer. This bug was introduced in 2.1.79 or 2.1.80; as -of 2.1.85 the bug is still there. +of 2.1.86 the bug is still there. diff --git a/syslinux.doc b/syslinux.doc index 012249e9..ff6a5b70 100644 --- a/syslinux.doc +++ b/syslinux.doc @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ SYSLINUX Version 1.31 - January 31, 1998 + February 13, 1998 A bootloader for Linux using MS-DOS floppies @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ LDLINUX.SYS into its root directory. WARNING: There seems to be a bug in some recent experimental Linux kernels that causes floppy disk corruption when using the Linux syslinux installer. This bug was introduced in 2.1.79 - or 2.1.80; as of 2.1.85 the bug is still there. + or 2.1.80; as of 2.1.86 the bug is still there. On boot time, by default, the kernel will be loaded from the image named LINUX on the boot floppy. This default can be changed, see the section @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ provided. The suggested manner is to let the initrd system mount the boot floppy and look for additional drivers in a predetermined location. -To bzImage and recent zImage kernels, SYSLINUX 1.30-1.31 will identify +To bzImage and recent zImage kernels, SYSLINUX 1.30-1.32 will identify using the ID byte 0x31. The ID range 0x32-0x3f is reserved for future versions of SYSLINUX. |