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BUGS
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BUGS
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- Hitting Ctrl-Alt-Delete when in GRUB locks some machines. Use Reset
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for now. (This apparently hasn't been observed for a while)
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- Stage 1 cannot read data from any >4128705 block. Ask okuji for more
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information.
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- Stage 1.5 does not work in some environments. Why?
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NEWS
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NEWS
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stage2.
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* Color menu support.
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* New command "quit".
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* The man page for /sbin/grub.
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New in 0.5.91 - 1999-03-14, Gordon Matzigkeit:
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* LBA and preliminary AWARD BIOS disk extension support.
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README
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README
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and 2.9.1.0.x, and we support only 2.9.1.0.x. It is available from
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ftp.XX.kernel.org (XX is the country code, such as `jp').
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* ncurses 4.0 and later (1.9.9 is too buggy, so don't use it.)
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Ncurses is used for /sbin/grub, so it may not be needed if you don't
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use /sbin/grub. Ncurses 4.0 is available from many ftp sites. (Should we
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use terminfo or termcap directly?)
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These below are required when you develop GRUB or when you get it from
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the CVS:
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* autoconf 19990301 and later
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Autoconf 2.13 has a bug that can't handle any macro with arguments,
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an unreleased version from the CVS. See
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/automake for more information.
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* ncurses 4.0 and later (1.9.9 is too buggy, so don't use it.)
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Ncurses is used for /sbin/grub, so it may not be needed if you don't
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use /sbin/grub. Ncurses 4.0 is available from many ftp sites.
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* texinfo 3.12h and later
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The latest snapshot of Texinfo is available from alpha.gnu.org.
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TODO
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TODO
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Add keyboard layout configuration support.
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Finish the GNU GRUB manual, grub.texi.
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Clean up and enhance the manuals, especially concept indexes.
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Add more filesystems support (minix, FAT32, etc.)
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@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ First, copy @file{e2fs_stage1_5} to the first cylinder after MBR
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(@pxref{MBR}):
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@example
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dd if=e2fs_stage1_5/e2fs_stage1_5 of=/dev/hda bs=512 seek=1
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dd if=stage2/e2fs_stage1_5 of=/dev/hda bs=512 seek=1
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@end example
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Second, specify the stage2 argument in the block-list format:
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Filesystem test mode is turned off by any uses of the @command{install=}
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or @command{testload=} commands.
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@item quit
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Finish GRUB in the Stage 2 emulator @command{grub} (@pxref{Stage 2
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emulator}). This is just ignored in the native Stage 2.
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@end table
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