UPDATE 2000 Mar 13, kgw@suse.de
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The new lilo-21-85.rpm in this directory is meant for SuSE Linux 6.3
and based on the LILO sources contained in SuSE Linux 6.3. The problems
mentioned below are fixed in this package. Two more fixes are added:

   -  LILO now knows how to handle a 2nd to 8th  DAC960
      (Mylex RAID controller) logical drive (block major 49-55)

   -  The maximal length of the command-line passed to LILO
      at the boot: prompt or in an append= statement in
      the config file has been increased to about 240 characters.


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The following comment refers to older LILO update packages 
for SuSE Linux 6.2, located now in 

   ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kgw/6.2


The present LILO packages

       lilo-21-13.rpm, lilo-21-37.rpm

based on a patch for LILO v.21 by Josef Moellers, are 
intended to replace the standard LILO package

            lilo.rpm (version 21) 

shipped with SuSE Linux 6.1, resp., SuSE Linux 6.2. Use

       lilo-21-13.rpm for a SuSE Linux 6.1 installation, 
       lilo-21-37.rpm for a SuSE Linux 6.2 installation. 

The package is meant for systems with a large extended BIOS data area (EBDA). 
In particular this includes the Siemens Primergy 870 servers.

It fixes the problem that LILO from the standard package cannot 
boot such systems. 

The next LILO version (v.22) which is under way at present is meant
to not have this problem anymore.


NOTE  

The second release of SuSE Linux 6.1 contains another LILO
package under CD1:/unsorted/lilo which can boot LARGE_EBDA systems
but (alas) does not reliably accept boot parameters at the
boot: prompt.  The present package lilo-21-13.rpm constitutes a 
bugfix for this.