LILO version 21 by Werner Almesberger has been updated to support booting
from large capacity disks using a new 'lba32' option (-L new command line
switch).  Dubbed version 21.4, the source code is available for download
from:

   ftp://sd.dynhost.com/pub/linux/lilo		(developer's site)
   ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo		(an alias)

Or from the main distribution site:

   ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo

The lilo-21.4.3 release adds the following:

1.  RAID patches from http://www.elliott-turbo.com/lilo/lilo.raid1.also,
which go beyond the RedHat 6.2 patches in 21.4.2.

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The lilo-21.4.2 release fixes problems that have affected a few people:

1.  The command line passed to the kernel was truncated at 78 characters if
the LARGE_EBDA (Extended BIOS Data Area) compile-time option was used.
(With today's big kernels, this was the default.)

2.  If both 'linear' and 'compact' were specified, the second stage loader
would encounter disk I/O error 0x40.  

Enhancements include:

3.  The boot loader now understands octal.  The kernel has always understood
octal, decimal, and hexadecimal, but prior boot loaders only supported the
last two.

4.  All patches from the RedHat 6.2 distribution have been applied.  This
includes the RAID support.

This version of LILO will boot from partitions beyond the 1024 cylinder limit.  To do this it requires a post-1998 BIOS with support for the EDD packet call interface.  Older systems may employ "soft" BIOS support for these calls with hard disk boot software such as EZ-DRIVE(tm) or MaxBlast(tm).

--John Coffman <johninsd@san.rr.com>


EZ-DRIVE(tm) is a registered trademark of Micro House International, Inc.
MaxBlast(tm) is a trademark of Maxtor, Inc.