Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 20:18:16 +0100
From: Nikita Schmidt <cetus@snowball.ucd.ie>
To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: enhancements to MILO

On Thursday,  8 Oct, Arnaud Installe wrote:
> 
> * Better handling of `;': no need to surround it with spaces any more.
> 
Good.  Annoying bits like this are what I've always wanted to get rid
of...

> 
> * When setting up devices display an additional `.' each second.  Before milo
>   only would display a `.' when outputting something.
> 
Nifty.  Then it would probably make sense to scrap the old dot
displaying mechanism, to make it even smoother.

>   
> * Added the possibility to specify a device (e.g. sda3) in /etc/milo.conf, so
>   that the kernel doesn't need to be on the same device.
> 
I thought I did it...  Or was it in -0.2?

> The patches are against Nikita's milo-2.0.35-0.1.tar.gz.

There is -0.2 out.  It it supposed to be able to run without BIOS
emulation.  Works for me, don't know about others.  Another feature
is that it's now less verbose on the serial port (doesn't cause mess
when there is a modem).  Only output of a command entered via the
serial port goes back to the serial line.  The initialisation messages
(which are so useful when something doesn't work) are thus suppressed on
the serial line by default, but can be turned on with miloctl.

BTW, binaries built from 2.0.35-0.2 are on genie in the milo-981005
directory.  They are built without BIOS emulation, to see how it works.
They can't be flashed.

Nikita


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