lilo - Boot loader HOWTO

ChangeLog


Aug 16, 2006	- 22.7.2.1 -> 22.7.3
Aug 11, 2006	- 22.7.1 -> 22.7.2.1
Nov 4, 2005	- Updated notes about diagnostics floppy
		- How to add diagnostic to lilo boot menu
Sep 19, 2005	- 22.7 -> 22.7.1
		- Make sure everything in the source directory is
		  writeable by your non-root account so you can remove
		  the directory later (chmod -R u+w .)
Jun 7, 2005	- Use ibiblio instead of author's site (for the new ver)
		- 22.6.1 -> 22.7
		- Fixed link text from coreutils to md5sum
		- Changed md5sum verification to output OK (or not)
		- Added sha1sum verification
		- root.root -> root:root, only run when $UID = 0
		- Removed use of ldap://keyserver.pgp.com (an ldap-based pgp
		  keyserver), you can get the author's key (and search by ID)
		  from x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu (my default)
		- Removed version 22.5.9
		- Rearrange options to shut up the new version of find
		- Added creation of a mkfs.msdos symlink to /sbin/mkdosfs
		  (if it doesn't exist)
		- Removed the binutils link (because of the global one at the top)
Dec 20, 2004	- 22.6 -> 22.6.1
Sep 30, 2004	- Added 22.6, leaving 22.5.9, removed 22.5.1
		- Added md5sum tarball verification for those that don't have
		  gnupg installed
		- Fixed 22.5.9's download URL (it's in 'obsolete' now)
Apr 14, 2004	- 22.5.8 -> 22.5.9
		- ibiblio doesn't have 22.4.1 any more, updated it to come
		  from the author's site
		- Only try to backup /boot if it exists
		- Only try to backup lilo.conf if it exists
Nov 11, 2003	- New home page:
		  http://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo/
		  ->
		  http://lilo.go.dyndns.org/
		- 22.5.7.2 -> 22.5.8
		- Removed the notes about the volume id error, it's too rare
Aug 22, 2003	- 22.5.7 -> 22.5.7.2
Aug 19, 2003	- 22.5.6 -> 22.5.7
		- Create ~/installed and ~/backup/boot-old with mode 700
		- Added prerequisite for bcc, link to it's howto
Jun 30, 2003	- 22.5.4 -> 22.5.6
May 28, 2003	- 22.5.3.1 -> 22.5.4
May 21, 2003	- Forgot to move the patch into ~/installed/
May 18, 2003	- Added patch that fixes a segfault bug, the patch makes it
		  22.5.3.1
May 11, 2003	- 22.5.2 -> 22.5.3
		- Added 2nd section for 22.4.1
May 6, 2003	- 22.5.1 -> 22.5.2
Apr 22, 2003	- Added note and tiny patch for lilo that'll fix a build
		  problem with (a) certain version(s) of glibc		  
Apr 3, 2003	- 22.5 -> 22.5.1
		- Note: a client of mine had trouble with 22.5 on four of
		  their Linux boxen, but not the other two.  Don't know about
		  22.5.1, I left them running 22.4.1.  On the other hand,
		  I've set up lilo 22.5 on lots of servers with no trouble.
		- Replaced "mv -f" of /boot with "cp -af"
Mar 19, 2003	- Updated prerequisites
		- Replaced download URL with ibiblio mirror:
		  http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo/
Mar 4, 2003	- 22.4.1 -> 22.5
Feb 3, 2003	- 22.4 + 22.4.1 patch -> 22.4.1
Jan 29, 2003	- 22.3.4 -> 22.4.1 (22.4 tarball + a patch)
		- Set .sig to be removed only if gpg --verify is OK,
		  separated gpg part
		- Updated backup of /boot and lilo.conf
		- Updated removal of old versions
		- Added little part to install an example lilo.conf
Nov 5, 2002	- 22.3.3 -> 22.3.4
		- Improved removal of previous versions
Sep 17, 2002	- Added gpg verification of course
Aug 31, 2002	- 22.3.2 -> 22.3.3
		- Added removal of previous version

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