From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
Subject: SYSLINUX 1.40 boot loader
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 08:07:10 GMT

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I have released version 1.40 of my SYSLINUX boot loader.  SYSLINUX is
a boot loader for Linux/i386, primarily intended for removable media,
which boots Linux from a DOS FAT12 or FAT16 filesystem.  It is quite
flexible, and has found use in a lot of places where LILO or LOADLIN
may be difficult to use.

Features added since 1.30 include localization, foreign operating
systems, FAT16 support, LS-120 support, hard disk support and many
more; please see the NEWS file.

Changes in 1.40: (since 1.37)
        * Increase A20M delay and put in a test to avoid problems on
	  certain IBM Thinkpads (thanks to Donnie Barnes of RedHat
	  for vital info on this one.)
        * Support COMBOOT style boot command images.
        * Support chain loading (foreign operating systems, e.g. DOS).
        * Include a new "copybs" DOS utility to copy a boot sector to
          a file (under Linux, use "dd".)
        * Fix the DOS installer to work for disks over 32 MB.
        * SYSLINUX should now handle disks with more than 65536 tracks.

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Title:		syslinux
Version:	1.40
Entered-date:	07MAY98
Description:	SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system
		which operates off MS-DOS floppies.  It is intended to
		simplify first-time installation of Linux, rescue
		disks, and other uses for boot floppies.  A SYSLINUX floppy
		can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other
		OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once
		it has been created; and requires only a ~ 7K DOS program
		or ~ 13K Linux program to create in the first place.
Keywords:	syslinux msdos boot loader floppy install
Author:		hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Maintained-by:	hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Primary-site:	ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
		67019 syslinux-1.40.tar.gz
		83125 syslinux-1.40.zip
Alternate-site:	sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
Platforms:	DOS or Linux.
		Linux, perl and nasm 0.97 or later required to build
		from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
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