* The command "displaymem" uses only hex digits for consistency.
* The netboot code goes back to the progress bars instead of dots, for
the notation of data transfers. And, that is displayed only in debug
mode, that is to say, nothing is displayed by default. Remember that
you can turn on debug mode via the command "debug".
* The command "help" doesn't show all the available commands by default,
when no argument is specified. Rarely used commands (such as
"testload") and useless commands in interactive use (such as
"savedefault") are hidden. If you want to see help messages for those
commands, specify the new option "--all".
* A built-in, `more'-like pager is added. When a command prints too many
lines to fit the screen, GRUB waits until you hit return key. This
feature can be turned off by the new command "pager".
* The command "terminal" accepts a new option, "--lines=LINES". You can
set the maximum number of lines arbitrarily with this option. If you
don't specify it, the maximum number will be 24.
* The command "terminal" accepts another new option, "--silent". You can
suppress the "Press any key to continue" message with this option.
* The mem= option for Linux is recognized and used to limit the maximum
address of initrd.
* A fallback entry is executed immediately after a default entry,
without prompting a user's intervention, as the manual has ever been
saying.
* The utility ``grub-install'' makes sure that GRUB images have been
written to a physical disk completely. To assist this feature, a new
command "dump" is added.
pkg/15065. I updated it to 0.91 and removed patch-aa which
the submitter already sent to the grub people.
GRUB is the GRand Unified Bootloader. Briefly, bootloader is the first
software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for
loading and transferring control to the operating system kernel software
(such as NetBSD orLinux). GRUB understands ffs, FAT{16,32}, ext2fs,
ReiserFS, minixfs, and VSTafs. It can directly boot NetBSD, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD and Linux without any other bootloader, loading a.out and ELF
kernels from the disk and passing along necessary arguments (in most cases).
It can also boot any operating system (the above, plus eg Windows, OS/2) by
chaining to that operating system's specific loader. Grub features a
runtime command line and loads its configuration at boot rather than
requiring rerunning of a separate utility. Other features are TFTP booting,
serial console support, large disk support, support for both DOS MBR label
and BSD disklabel simultaneously, booting from hard drive or floppy.
GRUB is available for the i386 architecture only.
