     [ History ]ķ
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  Version  Releasedate  Status  Changes                                   
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    0.20b  15 Sep 1999  [BETA]  [+] Basic NON-PUBLIC BETA                 
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    0.201b 16 Sep 1999  [BETA]  [-] Fixed handling of harddisks with less 
                                    than 63 sectors/track. (Thnx Hex1753) 
                                [+] LINUXIMG was not included in last rel 
                                [+] Additional documentation              
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    0.21b  30 Sep 1999  [BETA]  Tomorrow is Premiere World Premiere day!  
                                [+] AiR-BOOT works on 62 sectors/track    
                                [-] Linux Root Partition Setup Crash      
                                [-] Fixed a bug, when boot-menu disabled  
                                [+] Changed 'broken-partition' algo       
                                [-] Fixed bug, which prevented OpenDOS    
                                     from booting using MBR Protection    
                                Thanx to Hex1753 for the following:       
                                [+] Makes sounds, when boot-menu disabled 
                                Thanx to Mike Reichel for the following:  
                                [+] Timed Boot Key Handling setup feature 
                                [+] BIOS POST Message via TAB key         
                                [+] Corrected (some) partitions booting   
                                     (was just undocumented, should be    
                                      filled out by boot-record writer)   
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    0.22b   8 Okt 1999  [BETA]  [-] Corrected special partition booting   
                                     Hacked theory was not 100% correct   
                                     cause of that most partitions did    
                                     not boot anymore :-(                 
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    0.23b  25 Aug 2000  [BETA]  [+] This version is released as PUBLIC    
                                     BETA, available via os2.org and got  
                                     into the Warpcast mailing list.      
                                [+] Moved AiR-BOOT signature, so AiR-BOOT 
                                     is able to see, that Windoze98 broke 
                                     the MBR...                           
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    0.24b  27 Dec 2001  [BETA]  [+] Now "officially" a public beta        
                                [+] EZ-SETUP Detection                    
                                [+] Delay for entering Setup got expanded 
                                [+] Documentation now up-to-date          
                                [+] GetFloppyVolumeLabel and 2-Seconds-   
                                     Timed-Get now implemented            
                                [+] AIRBSET is able to run from A: floppy 
                                     now. Previously this didn't work.    
                                [+] Scrolling in bootmenu now possible    
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    0.25b  31 Dec 2001  [BETA]  [+] Have-A-Happy-New-Year Release         
                                [-] Fixed stupid-leftover in the rebuilt  
                                    boot-menu that caused wrong partition 
                                    to be booted when Include Floppy was  
                                    deactivated.                          
                                [-] Systems >15 partitions do not get     
                                    Save Error anymore.                   
                                [+] Installer now accepts upcased input   
                                [+] Hiding Partitions Pre-Support, will   
                                    unhide any hidden partition on boot.  
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    0.26b  12 Jan 2002  [BETA]  [+] Partition Setup now 100% functional   
                                [+] Configuration area enlarged           
                                [+] Hiding Partitions-Support             
                                [+] Partition Name changing possible      
                                [+] Partition X-Ref routine rewritten     
                                [+] Made my MBR compliant to the pseudo   
                                    standard that Microsoft invented      
                                    (more information in Q/A part)        
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    0.27b  29 Jan 2002  [BETA]  [+] OS/2 Select-Ur-Favourite-Boot-Letter  
                                [-] Delay for entering setup fix for some 
                                    current BIOSes that DONT SUPPORT      
                                    standard BIOS functions. Great :(     
                                [+] Shareware notice removed from Setup   
                                     and exchanged with actual conditions 
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    0.28b  26 Apr 2002  [BETA]  [+] Localized versions in Dutch, German,  
                                     French & Italian                     
                                [+] Installer improvements                
                                [+] Option for CD-ROM/ZIP/Network-boot to 
                                    resume boot process via BIOS          
                                [+] OS/2 / eCS boot >8GB fix, IBM has     
                                     their own way to detect Int13 Ext.   
                                [+] Workaround against Partition Magic's  
                                     *WRONG* way of filling out Begin-CHS 
                                     on LBA partitions resulting in       
                                     AiR-BOOT ignoring those. :-(         
                                [+] A primary partition is marked active, 
                                     even if none is booted to make some  
                                     BIOSes happy                         
                                [+] FAT-16 support for booting Linux      
                                     Kernels                              
                                [-] Linux Kernel Partition removed        
                                [+] Cooper-Bars <bg>                      
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    0.91b  17 May 2002  [RC-1]  [!] Release Candidate 1                   
                                [+] Bootmenu has a detailed mode          
                                [+] Setup can be entered additionally     
                                    from within Bootmenu via F10          
                                [-] Freeze in BASIC OPTIONS, when no      
                                    partition had bootable flag           
                                [-] Change-Boot Password Protection       
                                    occured at wrong times                
                                [+] Tiny translation related changes      
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    0.92b   2 Aug 2002  [RC-2]  [!] Release Candidate 2                   
                                [+] Logical booting OS/2 / eCS now works  
                                    Byte-Change must be memory-only       
                                [+] Slightly changed Stealth-MBR Virii    
                                    detection, because of strange BIOSes  
                                [-] BootMenu no longer freezes when Timer 
                                    got set to 255                        
                                [+] Official homepage changed             
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    0.93b  21 Sep 2002  [RC-3]  [!] Release Candidate 3                   
                                [-] In some cases INT13X-signature wasn't 
                                    written, so OS/2 / eCS didn't boot,   
                                    when partition was above 8 GB.        
                                [+] Matching mechanism changed internally 
                                [+] Documentation got split up            
                                [+] Developer information included        
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    0.94b  27 Nov 2002  [RC-4]  [!] Release Candidate 4                   
                                [!] Now official NETLABS-project          
                                     (Open-Source, but NOT YET GPL)       
                                [+] Cyrillic support                      
                                [+] Localized version in Russian          
                                [+] Translation changes                   
                                [+] AiR-BOOT InstallDisc Maker (makedisk) 
                                    rewritten (now much smaller)          
                                [+] Native OS/2 Installer now available   
                                [+] SETABOOT for OS/2 / eCS included      
                                     (including support for XWorkPlace)   
                                [+] Smooth scrolling added (Cooper Bars)  
                                [-] Sometimes immediate timed boot fixed  
                                [-] OS/2 / eCS didnt boot, when L-flag &  
                                    H-flag got used on the same partition 
                                [-] Typo in developer information fixed   
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    1.00    7 Jan 2003  [WARP]  [!] First official Non-Beta Release       
                                [+] New option to enforce exclusive LBA   
                                    API usage for some really bad BIOSes  
                                [+] Bad BIOS INT 10h compatibility fix    
                                [+] Swedish localization available        
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    1.01   20 Mar 2003  [WARP]  [!] My feelings go to Iraqi civilians     
                                [!] License change: If you are or were    
                                     working indirectly or directly for   
                                     american government and/or military, 
                                     then you are NOT allowed to use this 
                                     software in any case and you are     
                                     supposed to delete it NOW. Downloads 
                                     from .gov computers are now blocked. 
                                [-] Issue with NTFS detected as being     
                                [+] Broken partition table error message  
                                     instead of "LOAD ERROR"              
                                [+] Minor changes                         
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    1.02   12 May 2004  [WARP]  [!] Imperialismn sucks                    
                                [+] Being closed source again...          
                                [+] LVM Support                           
                                     Dynamic changing of bootdrive letter 
                                     Partition names are taken from LVM   
                                [+] Matching is now even more forgiving   
                                [+] Floppy and Resume-BIOS may be used    
                                     for default selection and timed boot 
                                [+] SETABOOT (OS/2): Small changes        
                                [+] SETABOOT (DOS):  New utility to       
                                     control AiR-BOOT under bare DOS      
                                [-] Linux kernel support dropped          
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    1.03   18 Oct 2004  [WARP]  [!] Every dead american soldier is a step 
                                     to Vietnam 2 for USA and final peace 
                                     for iraq                             
                                [+] Undocumented /4 now supported via     
                                     OS/2 setaboot.                       
                                [-] NTFS was detected as HPFS on LVMified 
                                     drives. Now fixed.                   
                                [+] os2.txt contains more information     
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    1.04   27 Nov 2004  [WARP]  [+] Improved CHS<->LBA access switching   
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    1.05   13 Mar 2006  [WARP]  [+] JFS with IFS partition id is now      
                                     detected and is also able to boot up 
                                [+] Harddrive number is shown, when broken
                                     partition table was detected         
                                [+] I13X signature now included in MBR,   
                                     LVM doesn't delete us anymore        
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    1.06   24 May 2009  [WARP]  [!] 10th anniversary edition              
                                [+] AiR-BOOT is now released under GPLv3, 
                                     sourcecode on sourceforge.net        
                                [+] Direct installer now also available   
                                     for DOS/Win9X and WinNT environment  
                                [+] MakeDisk utility rewritten            
                                [+] Native OS/2 installer rewritten       
                                [+] ISO for bootable CD-ROM included      
                                [-] Fixed bug in setup for driveletter    
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  Technial Problems ?                                                        
                                                                             
  Official Homepage: http://AiR-BOOT.sourceforge.net                         
  Author via E-Mail: m_kiewitz [AT] users [DOT] sourceforge [DOT] net        
                                                                             
  AiR-BOOT v1.06+ is released under GPLv3. Sourcecode is available from the  
   official homepage.                                                        
                                                                             
  At this point, I want to thank several people that helped me to improve    
   AiR-BOOT and fix some problems/incompatibilities:                         
                                                                             
   Hex1753, Mike Reichel, Robert Traynor, chusty@attglobal.net, Tod Morcott, 
    Teruel de Campo, Irv Spalten, Chris Carroll, Warp5, MaxWarp & Jake,      
    Peter Weilbacher and Veit Kannegieser.                                   
                                                                             
   ...and especially the translators that wasted so much time on it...       
                                                                             
    AiR-BOOT - Dutch   - by Kris Steenhaut                                   
    AiR-BOOT - French  - by Michel Goyette & Aymeric Peyret                  
    AiR-BOOT - Italian - by Stefano Sistemi                                  
    AiR-BOOT - Russian - by Denis Tazetdinov                                 
    AiR-BOOT - Swedish - by Bjrn Sderstrm                                 
    AiR-BOOT - German  - by myself ;)                                        
                                                                             
   Special thanx to Jan van Wijk for the LVM-CRC polynom!                    
                                                                             
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