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- Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
- Author(s): Martin Mitchell
- Date: 2001-04-08 21:11:58 UTC
- Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20010408211158-js9q3jnoon2l5qve
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version 1.6
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April 30, '96
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Release of LOADLIN-1.6
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- Finaly made the setup-buffer 16 K (again), now we only have 12 K remaining
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on top of low mem. This doesn't hurt, because setup.S is now movable.
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- Fixed a mapping bug. The auxbuffer-mapping wrapped around
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(from e000 to 10000, were we needed at least access to the bootsector).
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- Removed 'root=' and ro/rw translation, now passing the string unchanged to
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the kernel.
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- New option:
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-dskreset after completing disk access, reset the disk subsystem
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-wait=nnn after completing disk access, wait nnn DOS-timer-ticks
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(takes place _after_ -dskreset is checked)
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- Definitively removed old LoadlinX support, because it becomes impossible
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to translate the DOSish drive letters to Linux device names.
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( more the two drives,
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no standard to detect wether seeing SCSI or IDE drives )
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April 1, '96
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- Made @@...@@ parameter passing working again for below 9000 running setup.S.
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Now can have params behind the @-responsefile.
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( such as: loadlin @linux.par image=other root=/dev/other )
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- Introduced file-suffix (preparing for compound .exe + kernel + initrd )
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Mars 19, '96
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- Heap setting for video.S stuff (CAN_USE_HEAP,heap_end_ptr)
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Mars 7, '96
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- Fixed bug in bzImage code. (finally found, what seemed to be vanished
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in 1.3.71, but fortunately came up to crash on _my_ machine).
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kernel/head.S does not setup %esp, it uses the one of boot/head.S,
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and because this is pointing above 0x100000 for high loaded kernels,
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part of the kernel gets destroyed on startup.
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Mars 6, '96
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- Fix bug in LOALDIN (not recognizing 'k' or 'm' in mem=xxxK)
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- Some additional features and fixes in bzImage+initrd
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Feb. 21. '96
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- Fixed bug in LOADLIN (not loading old unpatched zImages)
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Feb. 20. '96
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- Fixed a bug in Makefiles, some as86-cleanups
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Feb. 19. '96
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- added support for dd'ed floppy boot (for bzImages).
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- fixed some odd error output in loadlin.exe
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Feb. 17. '96
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- Initial announcement of LILO+LOADLIN+bzImage+initrd
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by Werner Almesberger
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version 1.5
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added:
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Adaption to newer kernel:
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The setup buffer is now 16Kb. Setup size is determined by byte 497 in
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the boot sector. The actual size and the setup buffer size are printed
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by the debug output.
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Added kernel version control (needs patch for boot/setup.S).
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Changed the dev-numbers of /dev/xda, /dev/xdb to 0xD00,0xD40.
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(if you rely on old numbering use the -oldxd switch)
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The Javier method:
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A very clever guy in Spain, Javier Achirica
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<javier@autom.uva.es> invented a method to intercept the Linux
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setup code just before protected mode transition. I call it the
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"Javier method" and it is enabled whenever the -ja switch is used
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or neither BIOSINT nor REALBIOS are configured.
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All configuration steps, that where necessary for version 1.4 and below
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are now superfluous on allmost all machines.
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DBLSPACE is no more a problem and, although invented especially for
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V86 mode I use Javier's method also for realmode to move the image down.
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New option -clone:
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On some 486 clones we have problems with CR0 while probing for V86 mode.
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(as reported by Jacek Zapala zapala@if.pw.edu.pl ).
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It can happen that the CPU is in realmode, but PAGING is enabled !
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This is possible, but neither documented nor supported by INTEL.
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May be the motherboard's BIOS is mapping shadow ram this way,
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or one of those old and strange EMM managers is used,
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but probably this is an indication of a not exactly compatible
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486 clone. The -clone switch byepasses the CR0 check and assumes
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V86 if an EMM manger is found.
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But of course this EMM manager must not use real paging !
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New option -n:
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You can switch off the translation of root=/dev/xxx with the -n switch
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The string is then put unchanged into the command_line.
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Actually it does both, translates and put into command_line, but
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Linux will overwrite the LOADLIN-translation, and LOADLIN has
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a chance to check for know numbers.
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This option is intended for future Linux devellopement,
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if Linus expands the root device list, you can use these
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new device with your then not uptodate LOADLIN.
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Changed ramdisk= param
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I got report, that the prompt for diskchange (if using ramdisk)
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was inconvenient when using diskless configurations (builtin ramdisk),
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as used by <tiv@claudius.sch.bme.hu> (Szemethy, what's the hell is your
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correct "Reply to").
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With "ramdisk=1440,no" the prompt will be disabled.
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Using VCPI with NOEMS:
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As told by Jon Peatfield <J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cambridge.ac.uk>
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there is VCPI available even if using NOEMS in EMM386.
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The signature is not EMMXXXX0, but EMMQXXX0, which is a violation
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of the VCPI specification.
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Enhancements for loadlinX:
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The loadlin preprocessor LOADLINX now fully supports response files
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(@test.par). Additional command_line options are merged into those
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comeing from the response file, so you can you a "default" params
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file and then change some params on the actual call. With this
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feature LOADLINX can may be useful even if UMSDOS support is not
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needed.
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New option --version=... (e.g. --version=1.1.47#1) verifies the
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kernel version and aborts, if no match is found.
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Otion --version (without the "=") prints the version-string from
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a kernel image.
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New docs:
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QUICKSTA.RT, is taken from Pat Volkerding's LODLIN14.TXT
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bug-fix:
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vga=-1 did not work, e.g the sign wasn't interpreted.
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Minor changes on the cpu_check routine.
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version 1.4
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REALBIOS support (probing the BIOS via boot from floppy as proposed by
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Alessandro Rubini) to overcome the problem with QEMM.
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Alpha tested by Chuck Munro.
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loadlinX.exe (preprocessor for LOADLIN ("root=c:"),
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as proposed by Jacques Gelinas)
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Better documentation (author: Chuck Munro)
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readme --> manual.txt
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old source DEBUGMODE switch (don't need it any more)
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bug-fix:
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None from 1.3, got no bug report till now,
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(but problem reports solved with introduction of REALBIOS support)
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version 1.3
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added verbose and debug (-v -d -t) options
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Adaptation to kernel 1.0.5 changes for init/main.c :
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Kernel changes (by Linus):
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Command_line size is now 256 by default and is checked for size,
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but irritating option passing to SYSVinit is not handled.
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LOADLIN changes:
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I guess it had been better to let the kernel handle ALL params,
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and pass the params as string (instead of writing around in the binary),
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so future devellopement would be much easier.
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It was a very good idea of Linus to introduce the "command line feature",...
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and if (one day) the kernel handles all things appropriate, I will
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change back the following changes:
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Got "ro,rw" flags away from command line, sets 0x1f2 of bootsector instead.
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Recognize all "root=..." myself, which avoids the bug in "init/main.c".
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Fixed bugs:
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vga=ask,normal,extended did not work
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parsing DOS-command-line terminated incorrectly
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Cleaned up documentation
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version 1.2.1
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Fixed the problem with DBLSPACE
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Resets interrupt vector if BIOSINTV.SYS is recognized,
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not only if using VCPIswitch.
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version 1.2
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first appearence on:
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sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot
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elserv.ffm.fgan.de:/pub/linux/loadlin-1.2
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Added support for V86 (realmode back switch over VCPI)
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Added BIOSINTV.SYS driver to get a clean interrupt vector table
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Checked and cleaned up "sync before load" out of a LINUX.BAT file
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version 1.1
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First released version
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appeared on ftp.ffm.fgan.de
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Added response file feature
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resolved problem with uppercase conversion in CONFIG.SYS
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Cleaned up documentation.
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Sent my kernel patch to Linus.
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version 1.0 (NOTE: I allways start any packet-numbering with 1.0)
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Private ALPHA version.
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