| Added builtin NTFS boot sectors into GRLDR. | |
| Added 3 commands is64bit, errnum and errorcheck. | |
| Applied Robert Millan's patch of check_64bit. | |
| Implemented two syntactic operators `&&' and `||'. | |
| Added a new option --in-situ for the map command. | |
| Fixed an auto-probe-int problem of GRUB.EXE under "EMM386 noems". | |
| Workaround for buggy VirtualPC on a issue of floppy-emulation-mode | |
| bootable CDROM. | |
| 2006-12-28 version 0.4.2 | |
| Fixed a bug hidden deeply in memcheck. | |
| Fixed a bug hidden deeply in get_diskinfo. | |
| Fixed a bug in load_image. | |
| GRLDR(as a no-emulation-mode bootable CDROM image) was adapted to | |
| cope with some buggy BIOSes(e.g., VirtualPC). | |
| Added LBA-to-CHS geometry translation(in int13_handler) to simulate | |
| LBA(EBIOS)-enabled drives on CHS-only drives. | |
| Added a new feature of Unconditional Command-line Entrance. | |
| Applied Beverly Brown's patch to load_initrd. | |
| Added two new options to the map command to better serve Win9x. | |
| The default config file search path for GRUB.EXE was changed to | |
| (DOS file) .\menu.lst and then (DOS file) \menu.lst and then | |
| (GRUB file) /menu.lst. | |
| Other bug fixes. | |
| 2006-10-24 version 0.4.2pre11 | |
| Made a workaround for buggy USB-bootable board QDI 848E. | |
| Made a workaround for buggy 965 board with SATA CDROM connected. | |
| 2006-10-07 version 0.4.2pre10 | |
| Fixed a problem in GRUB shell which causes failure in grub-install. | |
| Enabled GRUB.EXE to run under FreeDOS with memdrives in use. | |
| Implemented an auto-probe mechanism to support all kinds of DOSes. | |
| 2006-09-19 version 0.4.2pre9 | |
| Resolved several problems: | |
| 1. (about kexec)Dropped the problematic kexec-tools-1.101-patch. | |
| 2. (about stack)Adjusted code in C files to use less stack. | |
| 3. (about cdrom)Fixed a few bugs in the cdrom driver. | |
| 2006-08-29 version 0.4.2pre8 | |
| Added a new command `setvbe'. | |
| Dropped the obsolete EZ-BIOS(with signature `AERMH') support. | |
| Fixed a bug in parsing Rock-Ridge extension. | |
| No-emulation-mode Bootable CD can be chainloaded now. | |
| Some work was done to improve remote/diskless boot. | |
| Fixed one more USB/Floppy EBIOS problem(in get_diskinfo). | |
| Merged protected mode stack into real mode stack at 0x2000. | |
| Code clean-up. | |
| 2006-07-31 version 0.4.2pre7 | |
| Imported ATAPI CDROM driver from Smart Boot Manager. | |
| Dropped the previous implementation of SCDROM/BIOSCDROM. | |
| Fixed a USB/Floppy EBIOS problem that could cause media access failure | |
| or even hang the machine when using USB storage devices. | |
| Fixed a bug in BOOTLACE.COM that had improperly set the LBA indicator | |
| byte(which is at offset 0x02 of the boot sector). | |
| Fixed a bug in GRLDR that caused failure in finding the associated | |
| MENU.LST config-file(which should be in the same directory as GRLDR). | |
| 2006-06-18 version 0.4.2pre6 | |
| Dropped the obsolete EZD disk map support. | |
| Fixed several bugs that may hang or slow the qemu virtual machine. | |
| Fixed a bug that causes the pause command not to respond any key-press. | |
| Fixed a bug that causes a command to accidentally fail if in a menu. | |
| Fixed a bug that causes the menu not to work once a cdrom had booted. | |
| 2006-06-05 version 0.4.2pre5 | |
| Added a static-linked binary executable file GRUB(a Linux utility). | |
| Fixed a gateA20 problem related to memdrive emulation. | |
| Boot GRUB.EXE directly off Windows9x/Me(experimental; might hang). | |
| 2006-04-03 version 0.4.2pre4 | |
| Made GRUB.EXE run under EMM386. | |
| Fixed a bug in splashimage_func(). | |
| Made `ignore error' constant and removed the `--ignore-error' option, | |
| and renamed the option `--seconds=T' to `--wait=T' for savedefault. | |
| The sample menu.lst was modified accordingly. | |
| 2006-03-28 version 0.4.2pre3 | |
| New syntax for the `default' and `savedefault' commands was | |
| implemented. | |
| Changed `int' to `unsigned long' for filemax, filepos and fsmax, and | |
| modified all fsys_*.c files in order to open large files(2GB or | |
| longer). | |
| 2006-03-09 version 0.4.2pre2 | |
| The directory `boot/grub/' was removed from the release tree(GRUB4DOS | |
| does not use the stage files at boot time). The default config file for | |
| GRUB.EXE was changed to (hd0,0)/menu.lst(but preset_menu still locates | |
| (hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst when (hd0,0)/menu.lst does not exist). | |
| Added DOS command-line options --bypass, --time-out=T and --hot-key=K | |
| for GRUB.EXE. | |
| 2006-02-24 version 0.4.2pre1 | |
| gcc-4 support by VirusCamp. | |
| Limited support for returning to DOS from GRUB.EXE. | |
| Implemented a new feature that GRUB.EXE can be used as a DOS device | |
| driver and be started in CONFIG.SYS with a DEVICE line. | |
| Better IODELAY was made for initialization of PIC to fix the | |
| keyboard-not-responding problem when running through KEXEC. | |
| Better A20 gate control was made to help fix various problems on the | |
| boot of grub. | |
| 2005-12-14 version 0.4.1 | |
| Fixed a partition enumeration bug(in disk_io.c). Fixed a bug of mapping | |
| partitions to harddrives(in builtins.c). Fixed a bug that causes | |
| failure when `find --set-root' on a CD-ROM device(in builtins.c). Added | |
| a new feature of directly chainloading ntldr and some dos kernels. | |
| 2005-11-14 version 0.4.1pre32 | |
| Fixed more bugs. | |
| 2005-11-02 version 0.4.1pre31 | |
| A few bugs were fixed. | |
| 2005-10-23 version 0.4.1pre30 | |
| A bug about "bootlace.com --floppy" was fixed. | |
| 2005-10-18 version 0.4.1pre29 | |
| Added ram disk device (rd) to access, typically, the initrd image. | |
| Added many new command-line options for bootlace.com to install GRLDR | |
| boot record onto the boot sector of a floppy. A few bugs about | |
| "map --mem" were fixed. Another bug about finding grldr in NTFS was | |
| also fixed. It may cause the machine to hang up when there is no ntfs | |
| boot record in the boot area of the NTFS partition. | |
| 2005-09-25 version 0.4.1pre28 | |
| Commandline option --config-file="FILENAME_OR_RAW_COMMANDS" was added | |
| for GRUB.EXE where GRUB.EXE is treated as a Linux kernel. | |
| Fixed a bug which causes installation failure when BOOTLACE.COM is | |
| used for large disks. | |
| 2005-09-21 version 0.4.1pre27 | |
| Added a patch to the kexec-tools-1.101. Kexec might fail to load | |
| grub.exe without this patch. | |
| 2005-09-14 version 0.4.1pre26 | |
| Fixed a bug for the DOS part of BOOTLACE.COM | |
| 2005-09-11 version 0.4.1pre25 | |
| GRUB4LIN has merged into GRUB.EXE; A new command-line option | |
| --read-only was added for BOOTLACE.COM; A few bug fixes. | |
| 2005-09-01 version 0.4.1pre24 | |
| BOOTLACE.COM runs under both DOS and Linux. | |
| 2005-08-27 version 0.4.1pre23 | |
| Added a utility BOOTLACE.COM for installing grldr bootstrap code to MBR | |
| 2005-07-30 version 0.4.1pre22 | |
| Added bootstrap file GRLDR.MBR for launching grldr from MBR. | |
| 2005-07-24 version 0.4.1pre21 | |
| Added Windows NT 4.0 support(actually fixed a bug reported by Stefan | |
| Baur). For other new features, see README.txt. | |
| 2005-07-20 version 0.4.1pre20 | |
| Added ext2/ext3 boot record code for loading grldr from the beginning | |
| sector of a floppy or a partition. | |
| 2005-05-25 version 0.4.1pre5 | |
| GRUB commands can be embedded into the command line of GRUB.EXE | |
| 2005-05-20 version 0.4.1pre4 | |
| Bug fixes: When the system has no floppies, some operations, | |
| e.g., the find command, will hang the machine. | |
| 2005-05-17 version 0.4.1pre3 | |
| Search for cdrom_drive from drive 0x88 to drive 0xff | |
| 2005-05-11 version 0.4.1pre2 | |
| Our base is now upgraded to GNU GRUB 0.97. | |
| 2005-04-25 version 0.4.1pre | |
| Fixed a bug reported by Gilles van Ruymbeke | |
| <gvr_no_spam_123@ruymbeke.com> <gvr_grub4dos123@ruymbeke.ch>: | |
| The map_func improperly opened the emulation image for 3 times, that | |
| might slow down the load speed heavily, especially for gzipped files. | |
| 2005-04-15 version 0.4.0 | |
| Add /boot/grub/menu.lst in preset menu. This is final. | |
| 2005-04-07 version 0.4.0pre7 | |
| config_file takes precedence over preset_menu. | |
| 2005-04-06 version 0.4.0pre6 | |
| GRLDR can be used with no-emulation-mode bootable CD-ROM. | |
| 2005-03-09 version 0.4.0pre4 | |
| Now preset menu find /menu.lst, no longer support /boot/grub/menu.lst | |
| Partition images can emulate a partition (hd?,0) with --mem option. | |
| 2005-03-02 version 0.4.0pre3 | |
| GRLDR startup code search all partitions in all harddrives for GRLDR. | |
| chainloader can boot images larger than 512 bytes, and can load image | |
| to a different location than 0000:7C00. | |
| 2005-02-06 version 0.4.0pre | |
| Switched to GNU GRUB 0.96 | |
| The --mem option of MAP command was added for memdrive emulation. | |
| Also announced 0.2.0 final. | |
| 2004-10-23 version 0.2.0pre13 | |
| GRUB.EXE runs in DOSBOX. | |
| GRUB4LIN is introduced to boot off LINUX. | |
| Fixed a bug reported by windrv: NTFS check contiguity failure | |
| Rearranged the patches. | |
| 2004-08-31 version 0.2.0pre12 | |
| Fixed a bug reported by szwp: cannot load GRLDR on partition that is | |
| not CHS-accessible. | |
| Fixed a bug reported by windrv: take too much time to check contiguity | |
| 2004-08-15 version 0.2.0pre11 | |
| Mark the scdrom module as experimental. | |
| 2004-07-13 version 0.2.0pre9 | |
| Merged GNU GRUB 0.95 | |
| BOOTGRUB removed. Use BOOT.INI line C:\GRLDR="Start GRUB" instead. | |
| Patches from Gandalf: NTFS and ATAPI CDROM support(also thanks to | |
| Tobias Svensson <tobiassvensson@home.se>) | |
| Patches from Chris Semler <csemler@mail.com>: findroot | |
| 2004-04-12 version 0.2.0pre6 | |
| Now GRUB.EXE can be used in CONFIG.SYS this way: | |
| shell=C:\some\where\grub.exe --config-file=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst | |
| or | |
| shell=C:\some\where\grub.exe | |
| No other changes. | |
| 2004-04-09 version 0.2.0pre5 | |
| Now BOOTGRUB contains 4 sectors, i.e., 2048 bytes. Optionally, you may | |
| copy the 2nd, 3rd and 4th sectors of BOOTGRUB to the three sectors that | |
| immediately follow the MBR. Also Optionally, you may copy 446 bytes | |
| from the very beginning of BOOTGRUB to the very beginning of MBR. In | |
| this way, the GRLDR can be started out of MBR, without the presence of | |
| NTLDR. | |
| CAUTION: Don't copy 512 bytes to MBR. The partition table should not | |
| be overwritten. The partition table is in the end of MBR. If you make | |
| a mistake, you will lose your whole system!! | |
| 2004-02-18 version 0.2.0pre4 | |
| Arbitrary-size floppy and hard disk emulation finally implemented. | |
| GRUB for NTLDR is included. See README file. | |
| Splash image version is available in the SPLASH directory. | |
| 2003-09-23 version 0.1.4 -- development unstable release | |
| Unfortunately 0.1.3 has an ugly bug. Fixed. | |
| 2003-09-01 version 0.1.3 -- development unstable release | |
| Rewrite the code for guessing FreeDOS int vectors. Hopefully it works | |
| for all the future versions of FreeDOS :-) | |
| 2003-08-25 version 0.1.2 -- development unstable release | |
| Fixed a small bug that affects the read of the emulated floppy sectors. | |
| Added some files (including the menu.lst file) for installing GRUB to | |
| MBR from DOS. Usage: | |
| Copy the boot directory to C:\ ; You must do this on Windows, NOT dos, | |
| because DOS cannot deal with the long filenames. | |
| Run grub to access the menu.lst file in C:\boot\grub ; Of cause on DOS. | |
| When menu occurs, select a proper menu item for installing GRUB to MBR. | |
| If the menu does not appear, you should get the "grub>" prompt. At the | |
| prompt, type the following commands: | |
| grub> configfile (hd0,1)/boot/grub/menu.lst | |
| grub> configfile (hd0,2)/boot/grub/menu.lst | |
| grub> configfile (hd0,3)/boot/grub/menu.lst | |
| Then, the menu should occur. | |
| 2003-06-29 version 0.1.0.1 -- development unstable release | |
| Do some cleanups on 0.1.0, no important changes. | |
| BTW, it seems that the 0.1.0 is quite stable :-) | |
| 2003-06-29 version 0.0.8 | |
| Restore mapped int13 to the unmapped state while grub is invoked | |
| after a previously performed drive map operation. | |
| 2003-05-29 version 0.1.0 -- development unstable release | |
| Floppy 1.44M drive emulation are OK. GOOD!!!! Usage: | |
| # boot Windows 98 SE | |
| map (hd1,0)/dos98se.img (fd0) | |
| chainloader (hd1,0)/dos98se.img | |
| rootnoverify (fd0) | |
| boot | |
| Another example: | |
| # boot Mandrake hard disk installer | |
| map (hd0,0)/hd.img (fd0) | |
| chainloader (hd0,0)/hd.img | |
| rootnoverify (fd0) | |
| boot | |
| Note that the floppy image file must size 1440KB, i.e., 1474560 bytes. | |
| _AND_ also, the file must consist of one contiguous disk area, no | |
| holes, no fragments. Use GRUB's blocklist command to determine whether | |
| or not an image file is contiguous. It is known that a 1440KB-file is | |
| always non-contiguous if it resides in an ext2 filesystem. But you may | |
| get a 1440KB contiguous file with an FAT32 partition(vfat filesystem). | |
| Floppy(and hard disk) with arbitrary sizes will be emulated in the | |
| future. | |
| 2003-05-06 version 0.0.7 | |
| Fixed a huge bug!! Read the following carefully! | |
| Using the drive map command(just as many distributions currently do) | |
| map TO_DRIVE FROM_DRIVE | |
| to boot your system could seriously _damage_ your hard disk data, | |
| totally and thoroughly!! This bug has just been fixed in 0.0.7 :-) | |
| This bug is not specific to grub_for_dos, but caused by the original | |
| grub-0.93 release. So do _NOT_ use map command any more until my fix is | |
| accepted by GRUB maintainers or a similar fix is made by other | |
| people. For now, do _NOT_ use map command in any kind of Linux | |
| distributions such as Red Hat or Mandrake or any others. | |
| Because GRUB_FOR_DOS-0.0.7 already applied the fix, so it | |
| should be safe to use the map command. | |
| Another small bug was also fixed in grub_for_dos-0.0.7 :-) | |
| 2003-04-29 version 0.0.6 | |
| Runs also on MS-DOS 3.30. No other changes. | |
| 2003-04-26 version 0.0.5 | |
| Runs on MS-DOS 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 6.20, 6.21, 6.22, 7.0, 7.10, 8.0 and | |
| FreeDOS(build 2029). GOOD!! | |
| 2003-04-20 version 0.0.4 | |
| Running on FreeDOS(build 2029), GOOD!! (But currently GRUB.EXE only | |
| has limited FreeDOS support, maybe unstable.) | |
| Add a "Guess DOS Version" feature. The program now exit to DOS when | |
| guess failed. The previous versions of GRUB.EXE always hang when | |
| running on an unsupported DOS version. | |
| 2003-04-13 version 0.0.3 | |
| The option "--config-file=FILE" was added. | |
| 2003-04-11 version 0.0.2 | |
| Also runs on MS-DOS 8.0 (i.e., the DOS with WinMe/2000/XP), GOOD!! | |
| The GRUB.PIF file included, so GRUB.EXE can be started from Windows 9x | |
| 2003-04-10 version 0.0.1 | |
| Runs on MS-DOS 7.10(Win98) |