LILO

This version addresses a screen clearing problem
in the first stage loader, which was entirely
rewritten to avoid the FF emulation code.
Problems with the 2.4.21 kernel and hardware
RAID controllers were fixed, and the boot
installer is now friendlier to devfs kernels.
The -M switch now installs Master Boot Loaders
that pass lilo parameters transparently using
the chain loader, and the "-T geom" switch now
has more complete and useful output. "mkrescue"
now dynamically determines the loopback device
in use and works with devfs.

The spurious error messages generated during
some RAID1 installations were removed. The boot
loader now correctly recovers from failed disks
in certain skewed RAID installations.

Enhancements to the -M and -A switches to handle activating and booting from extended partitions. The 'mkrescue' --iso option has been given a special flag for CD booting. Cleaner cautionary messages and interaction when handling VolumeID changes to avoid Windows NT conflicts.

This release makes the transition to "large-memory" loading of
extremely large initial ramdisks transparent to the user. Checks of
the hard disks on a system should now handle problem situations of
"duplicate volume IDs" in a smoother fashion. Careful avoidance of
WinNT volume ID changes has been incorporated. The "mkrescue" utility
now has a "--iso" option to make bootable CD rescue disks.

The volume ID check was fixed to use the proper Master Boot Device name and boot block. A compilation option for resuming from a suspend partition was added. A major update was made to 'mkrescue' so that it does not require a prior LILO boot. An '--iso' option to create a bootable CD image was also added to mkrescue.