* Define the behavior of the boot loader when the load end address is
zero and the bss end address is zero in the Multiboot Specification.
Also, add the support into GRUB.
* Finally, we have a Bug Tracking System! Now the preferable way to
report bugs is to use the BTS rather than sending e-mail to bug-grub.
See <http://bugcomm.enbug.org/?project=grub&mode=project>, for more
details.
* The appendix "FAQ" in the manual is removed. See the GNU GRUB FAQ on
the web <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html> instead.
* The terminal handling code is rewritten radically, and many bugfixes
are made at the same time.
* The command "color" is effective even in the command-line.
* The command "terminal" takes two new options, ``--no-echo'' and
``--no-edit''. If you specify ``--no-echo'', GRUB won't echo back
input characters. If you specify ``--no-edit'', GRUB will disable the
BASH-like editing feature. These options are useful when using an
intelligent terminal (such as the comint mode in GNU Emacs).
* The utility ``grub-md5-crypt'' prompts to retype a password and checks
if the passwords match.
* Support for booting Linux is rewritten, so GRUB now supports
large-EBDA systems.
* The menu interfaces supports Page Up, Page Down, and Right Key.
* New command "terminfo", for vt100-incompatible terminals.
* New options, ``-D'', ``-g'' and ``-m'' are supported for FreeBSD.
* 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.
