NetBSD/sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/version
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$NetBSD: version,v 1.13 2001/11/09 19:53:13 scw Exp $
NOTE ANY CHANGES YOU MAKE TO THE BOOTBLOCKS HERE. The format of this
file is important - make sure the entries are appended on end, last item
is taken as the current.
2.0: Change over to Matthias Drochner's two-stage boot system.
All code is completely new.
2.1: New welcoming banner.
2.2: Use common menu / parsing functions with other bootloaders.
New framework to pass information to the kernel.
2.3: Switch to new NetBSD MBR partition ID.
2.4: Support BIOS Int13-Extensions.
2.5: Support ustarfs boot.
2.6: Support ELF boot.
2.7: Support on-the-fly switching of console devices.
2.8: Support verbose/quiet boot.
2.9: Recognize PS/2 L40 at runtime and use appropriate gate A20
initialization (rather than using a compile flag).
Recognize ESDI disks and identify them as ed(4) for COMPAT_OLDBOOT.
2.10: g/c COMPAT_OLDBOOT
2.11: loadfile() update: ELF symbols no longer need backward seeks.
2.12: loadfile() update to avoid backwards seeks for ELF Program Headers.