===== Changes from BootLin 1.3 to 1.4 ========================================= It's not really here now, because Linux doesn't like it yet, but the main new functionality is that you will be able to boot Linux directly from the DOS command line. ===== Changes from BootLin 1.2 to 1.3 ========================================= Added a check of the boot sector to be a REAL BIOS BOOT SECTOR. This will avoid, I hope, to try to boot with everything, and more especially with the system executable, like one of my friends did... BootLinux now sets the memory to zero before loading the image. With this linux hangs less often. If the name given on the command line refers to no real file, then you are prompted for a new file name, until the name is correct. This should allow, for those using multiple kernels, the use of only one command line in the config.sys to boot whatever version of linux they want. Sorry, I could not avoid Bootlin.com to be more than 1K this time ! ===== Changes from BootLin 1.1 to 1.2 ========================================= I think I have now corrected the bug that hung some computers and made everyone have garbage in place of the "Press to see SVGA modes". If the ROOT device number is not defined, it allows you to choose it within some devices. It has a far more simple command line parsing routine. That allowed to save about 33% of the size, which in turn allowed the new BootLinux to be smaller than the old one. Drawback: no checking is done. Anyway, it has the same syntax than the previous BootLinux. I now give a MASM source ! ===============================================================================