• The New UBoot

    From DENNIS SMITH@1:120/228 to ALL on Wed Oct 6 22:42:16 2004
    This was posted at AW today by Thomas Frieden...

    Leuwen, Belgium - October 6th 2004.

    In preparation for the upcoming update of Amiga OS 4.0, Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the much improved U-Boot 1.1.1 for AmigaOne SE and XE motherboards.

    New features include:

    * Support for multiple graphics cards. At this time the last graphics card (usually the AGP card) is used for primary display. Later versions will include an option to choose.
    * Support for booting off a Silicon Image 0680 IDE controller. This feature has to be selected manually at the moment, by entering setenv ide sii from the U-Boot shell.
    * New CPU support: IBM PowerPC 750GX is now fully supported.
    * A problem has been fixed that made the U-Boot environment settings unavailable when rebooting from Linux.
    * Support for LBA48 IDE Drivers, i.e. you can now boot off drives that are bigger than 160 GB.
    * Support for the new Second-Level Bootloader (that can boot Linux besides AmigaOS), to be distributed with the upcoming AmigaOS 4 update.
    * Numerous bug fixes and improvements.

    The new U-Boot will be required for the upcoming update of Amiga OS 4.0, to be released shortly to registered AmigaOS 4.0 pre-Release owners.

    The download is available in our Downloads section.

    Hyperion Entertainment.biz
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