| This is GNU GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader. GRUB is intended to |
| provide important bootloader features that are missing from typical |
| personal computer BIOSes: |
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| - provides fully-featured command line and graphical interfaces |
| - recognizes fdisk partitions and BSD disklabels |
| - can dynamically read Linux ext2fs, BSD ufs, MS-DOS FAT16 and FAT32, |
| and Minix fs filesystems, plus hardcoded blocklists |
| - can boot Multiboot-compliant kernels (such as GNU Mach), as well |
| as standard Linux and BSD kernels |
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| See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB. |
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| If you are interested in the network support, see the file |
| README.netboot under the directory netboot. |
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| See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the |
| GRUB data and program files. See the GRUB manual for details about |
| using GRUB as your bootloader. Type "info grub" in the shell prompt. |
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| GNU GRUB has a page on the web. See: |
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| http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html (English) |
| http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.ja.html (Japanese) |
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| If you have any suggestions or ideas, please send electronic mail to the |
| GRUB mailing list <bug-grub@gnu.org>. |
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| When you encounter any problem or bug, please submit it to |
| <bug-grub@gnu.org> with information about your computer and what you did |
| as much as possible. For example, your operating system and the |
| geometries of your drives are very important. |
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| When you enhance/fix GRUB, please send the patch to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. |
| Do not forget to write your changes to ChangeLog; That helps us to |
| understand your changes correctly. And it is preferable that your patch |
| is the unified format. Just append `-u' option to the command `diff'. |
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| NOTE: you should stick to the GNU Coding Standards. Look at the URL |
| <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html> to understand it. |
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| DEVELOPERS: to subscribe to the mailing list, send e-mail to |
| <bug-grub-request@gnu.org>. You can get the latest GRUB CVS tree from |
| `:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/home/cvs', module `grub'. |
| Just hit enter when CVS prompts you for a password. |
| See <http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html#CVS> for more details. |
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| IMPORTANT SIZE LIMITS: |
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| - For the FFS stage1.5, if you want to fit into the "bootloader" area |
| of an FFS partition, it cannot be larger than 512 * 14 disk sectors, |
| or 7168 bytes. |