This directory contains extipl version 5.04.
Extipl is a simple boot-selector which makes coexistence of several operating systems on your machine. The extipl works under the FreeBSD 2.2.7R(or later) and the Linux 2.0.36 at least(may be all the 2.0.x or 2.2.x work with this).
- SOURCE TREE
There are several subdirectories:doc/English/ holds the ENGLISH documentation.
(by Ryutaroh Matsumoto <ryutaroh@tsden.org>) doc/Japanese/ holds the JAPANESE documentation. src/ holds the source code for the "extipl".
- MAKING THE EXTIPL
You need "nasm" to compile the extipl. You can get the nasm from "http://www.web-sites.co.uk/nasm/". Here, I assume that you installed nasm. When you have the environment for nasm, Run as following.
$ cd src
$ make
That's all.
- USING THE EXTIPL
Please read following document.In English doc/English/extipl.txt (by ryutaroh@tsden.org) In Japanese doc/Japanese/extipl.txt
- AUTHER
- Original source and Japanese document by KIMURA Takamichi. - English document by Ryutaroh MATSUMOTO. - Manual page by Akira YOSHIYAMA and Taketoshi SANO. - REDISTRIBUTION
This package is released under the GNU General Public License Version 2. You can redistribute this package under the GPL2. - OTHERS
Bug reports and patches are welcome, Please send to "extipl@tsden.org". - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Ryutaroh Matsumoto <ruytaroh@tsden.org> maintained the English documents. Thank you very much.
Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp> reported the bugs and suggested their idea to correct as patch. Thank you very much.
Akira YOSHIYAMA <yosshy@debian.or.jp>, and Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp> wrote the manual page for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Thank you very much.
Nobumasa TAKAYASU <nobumasa@fhe.freeserve.ne.jp> reported the bugs and suggested drive-swapping idea. Thank you very much.
- REVISION HISTORY
extipl evolved as follows.
Version 5.04, March 26 2002:
A bug in the lba_diskio subroutine is fixed.(castor.asm)
Version 5.03, July 18 2001:
It corrects the mistake of src/Makefile.
Version 5.02, July 3 2001:
Initialized DX-register at start-up.(pollux.asm) A bug in the make-lba-packet subroutine is fixed.(altair.asm) A bug in the drive-changw subroutine is fixed.(castor.asm)
Version 5.01, January 6 2001:
Fixed conditions for drive-swapping.(castor.asm)
Version 5.00, December 22 2000:
Supported LBA(extended BIOS function call) mode. Distribution License has been changed to GPL2. Documentations updated.
Version 4.22, June 16 1999:
Distribution License has been changed to allow the binary re-distribution under some conditions. Documentations updated.
Version 4.21, May 12 1999:
English documentations updated.
Man page added.
Version 4.20, April 05 1999:
Can boot an OS in a Linux or DOS extended partition.
Can be compiled with Linux and FreeBSD.
Enables DR-DOS password function.
Includes an example that can do LBA access.
Version 4.10, October 27 1998:
A bug in the "restore" command is fixed.
Version 4.00, October 23 1998:
Change the development environment from Borland C to LSI-C and DR-DOS.
Version 3.00, October 25 1997:
Can boot an OS in third or later HD.
English documentation.
Released in the Web.
Provide example codes and documentation for how Extended-IPL works.
Version 2.00, March 22 1993:
Separate the MBR code and the MINIX specific loader. The latter was released as "MXboot".
Version 1.00, June 29 1991, released as "MXboot":
Released as a boot selector for different versions of MINIX. Can boot an OS in the second harddisk.
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$Id: README,v 1.6 2002/03/25 13:47:47 takamiti Exp $