From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756850Ab2BHWLZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:11:25 -0500 Received: from nm13.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com ([77.238.189.66]:45474 "HELO nm13.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755866Ab2BHWLY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:11:24 -0500 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 723081.91647.bm@omp1015.mail.ird.yahoo.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.fr; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=pOeZXfxYgqd7vfb2AkXWUT5fasPy06eCFEbpfijaSv/ArdVIbYBCJ42RdlDCPpBNhC5EvBej8hzpmg2MTDZwJCHSTN/rGcg7QePknLf4Gte7tqKGLs4obv9tTHMTA40tTNqY9K7wtPHMzzq6LR5KooZP8N1hcJ2tSDbvVQ1upy8=; X-YMail-OSG: e.yHbrcVM1mt2N_MYF5VmM8ndN6RTCUKAzY5kXGfPtBMQai wYOQc_rKfDvEK48nLhkPNGJCXfWjImG0UJJxGUZJqVwk.7UormKzYYlrkbm5 4eqGimTwvfpiY8SnNI44RpsYGbATzvuiGPoP8.bwkPIIRsyiPS66JD.Z92wK XPTLHQ3VuS_LEnVBR1hjmhyjw3QZXffTUWnS7ZHDkf4RHIyC4Bi60vvZKXA2 fa8hmOiyUiuE.rcKfscI2MXreroGNekM_Tc3PcgvmVQ_Cv5eUMhgH81rcR2b eMEmW8NiuVKbpet1RJwlqjM.MEksdgRoD9UAkvvoNsp6CUIyjq398ceGirWo sj.YlWFHR5PnpueDz3ZiN6VCQvf.0BUXvUDW_2nJiWt0MbDWaT_h1EVlUzsD .0styROg68lGRYiciwFNWHjhyQqye1LGab_x9MNN83nT4maXAdVe4pftr_5J 4VMvfnAdVra80QcvHaHNBKVR1auAiNP0szSq.1szbAKrA9pi9qn9qEaiAtXj lVYriCOPHC0zrNvDrrDk4pp_R9_6hQXy9_9Q6wO7QOWfusgvAbD5R7BwfLQ- - X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.116.338427 Message-ID: <1328739082.22121.YahooMailNeo@web171408.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:11:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Etienne Lorrain Reply-To: Etienne Lorrain Subject: [announce] Gujin GPL bootloader version 2.8.5 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org There is a new version v2.8.5 of the GPL Gujin boot/linux loader at http://gujin.org (i.e. sourceforge) with bug fixes and improvements, and Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora packages in 32 and 64 bits for easy installation on i386/amd64 PC. This version contains quite a lot of bug fixes, changelog is: - Fix (error loading file 0x3401) loading kernel on highly fragmented ext2 partitions - Fix a bug when /boot/gujin.ebios created not contiguous  (hdparm --fibmap /boot/gujin.ebios), and enable uninstalling those not contigous  files (happens on highly fragmented 1024 bytes/block ext2 partitions) - Fix a problem when MBR has 0x29 signature but invalid bytes/sectors - Fix a bug where /boot directories were not probed on FAT (directory entries contains  null size on FAT) - Behaves better when partitions do not have a label, use PBR label or Gujin "part n" - no more compile with "-funsigned-char", fix bugs about mixed sector sizes in iso images (loading kernel on 512 bytes/sector FAT filesystem written on a CDROM/DVDRAM) - add "relro" linker flags for the installer - Re-enable PCI I/O space of PCI IDEs if disabled by BIOS (when BIOS finds no disk) - fix possible problem with BIOS disk nb_heads=256 - add docs for changing Linux parameter by Shift-Fn or Shift-mouse, and  Control-Break behaviour - add probing for /sys/block/sr[0-9] for "gujin --report-signature" - update to support PCI BIOS v3.0+ which is not fully backward compatible,  and use VirtualBox bug. - Fix to handle older HP BIOS bugs - update GPG signature, add new encryption/signature subkeys Downloads at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gujin/files/ Have fun, Etienne.