Import grub2-20091221 as wip/grub2-current.
This is the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader, rewritten
from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful,
and more portable.
GRUB 2 currently runs on i386 and macppc, and groks many filesystems
(e.g. ext2, fat, ufs, minix, iso9660, jfs, hfs). It is able to load and
boot Multiboot (1 and 2) and Linux (bzImage and zImage) kernels and
chainload foreign operating systems' bootsectors.
This package is based on the current bazaar development snapshot.
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$NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.7 2012/07/25 16:13:02 gregoire Exp $
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Import grub2-20091221 as wip/grub2-current.
This is the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader, rewritten
from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful,
and more portable.
GRUB 2 currently runs on i386 and macppc, and groks many filesystems
(e.g. ext2, fat, ufs, minix, iso9660, jfs, hfs). It is able to load and
boot Multiboot (1 and 2) and Linux (bzImage and zImage) kernels and
chainload foreign operating systems' bootsectors.
This package is based on the current bazaar development snapshot.
2009-12-21 18:41:00 +01:00
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To actually install GRUB 2 to disk, use grub-install(8). But do
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not use it unless you understand what it actually does, for it may
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lead to loss of data when used improperly.
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Import grub2-20091221 as wip/grub2-current.
This is the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader, rewritten
from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful,
and more portable.
GRUB 2 currently runs on i386 and macppc, and groks many filesystems
(e.g. ext2, fat, ufs, minix, iso9660, jfs, hfs). It is able to load and
boot Multiboot (1 and 2) and Linux (bzImage and zImage) kernels and
chainload foreign operating systems' bootsectors.
This package is based on the current bazaar development snapshot.
2009-12-21 18:41:00 +01:00
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Please visit the official web page of GRUB 2, for more information.
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The URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/>.
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Import grub2-20091221 as wip/grub2-current.
This is the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader, rewritten
from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful,
and more portable.
GRUB 2 currently runs on i386 and macppc, and groks many filesystems
(e.g. ext2, fat, ufs, minix, iso9660, jfs, hfs). It is able to load and
boot Multiboot (1 and 2) and Linux (bzImage and zImage) kernels and
chainload foreign operating systems' bootsectors.
This package is based on the current bazaar development snapshot.
2009-12-21 18:41:00 +01:00
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More extensive documentation is available in the Info manual,
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accessible using 'info grub'.
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There are a number of important user-visible differences from the
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first version of GRUB, now known as GRUB Legacy. For a summary,
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please see:
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info grub Introduction 'Changes from GRUB Legacy'
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Import grub2-20091221 as wip/grub2-current.
This is the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader, rewritten
from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful,
and more portable.
GRUB 2 currently runs on i386 and macppc, and groks many filesystems
(e.g. ext2, fat, ufs, minix, iso9660, jfs, hfs). It is able to load and
boot Multiboot (1 and 2) and Linux (bzImage and zImage) kernels and
chainload foreign operating systems' bootsectors.
This package is based on the current bazaar development snapshot.
2009-12-21 18:41:00 +01:00
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