Subject: LILO 0.14 released
From: [email-masked] (Werner Almesberger)
Date: 18 Jan 1994 21:59:15 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

LILO 0.14 is on sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/Incoming (from where it will
probably move to /pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot/lilo) and on tsx-11.mit.edu,
where it will probably appear in /pub/linux/packages/lilo. The files are

    lilo.14.tar.gz	source and documentation
    lilo.u.14.ps.gz	user's guide in PostScript (only on sunsite)
    lilo.u.14.dj.gz	user's guide for HP DeskJet (only on sunsite)

There are no pre-build ready to print files of the technical overview,
because it didn't change significantly since the last release.

0.14 is primarily a maintenance release. Several bugs in device handling
and in QuickInst have been fixed.

The only new feature is an uninstall option which removes LILO (if the
first version of LILO installed on that system was 0.14 or newer). Before
generally recommending this uninstall procedure, I'd like to get some
feedback about success or failure.

A warning for users of SLS and Slackware: some of these distributions
install a file /etc/disktab that originates from Shoelace. If you want to
use LILO with the new path names, you have to remove that file before
installing LILO. See INCOMPAT for details.

I've attached the relevant section of the CHANGES file.

- Werner

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Changes from version 13 to 14
-----------------------------

  Map installer
  -------------

    - added a few missing closedirs to device.c:scan_dir
    - added detection of directory loops to device.c:scan_dir and
      geometry.c:last_dev
    - fixed handling of dangling links in /dev
    - new option -u [ device ] to restore boot sector. Unsafe mode with -U
    - fixed/improved usage message

  Documentation and installation
  ------------------------------

    - QuickInst: did not write "other" sections to configuration file
    - QuickInst.new: improved handling of disks without active partitions
    - QuickInst.new now knows about /etc/disktab (relict from Shoelace,
      still in some distributions)
    - QuickInst.new now uses *_d.b chain loaders when configuring non-Linux
      systems on the second disk
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  / Werner Almesberger, ETH Zuerich, CH      [email-masked] /
 /[email-masked]/

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