LILO

This release updates "mkrescue" so that a prior boot
with LILO is no longer required. Switches were added to
the boot installer to support the operation of
"mkrescue" in this new way. A compile-time switch was
added to support Dell "suspend" partitions. An active
suspend partition on the C: drive alters the meaning of
"vmdefault=", which should specify the suspend
partition. The coding is a kludge at the moment just to
gather user feedback. Compilation with this switch
enabled will probably not be included in the mainstream
LILO distribution.

A patch file has been issued to fix a segmentation fault encountered with the "lilo -T geom" command in 22.5.3. The patch is available at the developer's site to update the 22.5.3 source tarball.

This version cleans up the interaction between kernels
compiled with DEVFS_FS, but which do not mount
'devfs'. With many of these systems, the /dev directory
does not have the entries referenced by /proc/
partitions, which led to problems with previous 22.5.*
releases.

This release handles the Reiser4 filesystem. It fixes problems which
occurred with 'raid-extra-boot="...,/dev/XXX,..."' when XXX was not a
disk containing part of the raid set. The "-M" switch now creates
backup files (-s and -S switches). A bootloader fix for getting the
number of hard disks on the system has been added. Only RAID1 users
really need this update.

This release updates the boot scheme to account for BIOS glitches that cause problems for 22.5. Backups are now handled in a more consistent fashion. Several new configuration file keywords were added to control use of latest enhancements.