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Minor doc fixes and packaging cleanups.

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Get /sbin/grub to work.
Automatically generate source dependencies. This might involve some
patches to Automake (if so, we should also fix the fact that we
currently need dummy.c in _SOURCES in order to get the C compiler flag
variables).
Change partition syntax to correspond with BSD ``slice'' syntax
(`(hd0,1a)' -> `/dev/hd0s2a').
@ -9,32 +14,30 @@ type''. We need this for clean Hurd install floppies.
Find out the size restrictions for FAT and ext2fs stage1.5 boot
blocks. Enforce all arbitrary limits using the Makefiles.
Look at network booting.
Add/Finish LBA and/or Int13 extensions support.
Add stripped-down Guile support, and rewrite current behaviour in
Scheme. Make sure not to break backward compatibilty, or else we'll
be roasted by anti-Guile people.
Add a real scripting language, possibly retain backward compatibility
so that old config files can be used.
Look at the network booting patches from L4.
Add internationalization support, emulating gettext as much as is
feasible.
Maybe add BIOS password support. In any event, improve the existing
password support.
Add support/delays so that a floppy can be installed from another
floppy.
Add support/delays so that a floppy can be installed from
another floppy.
Add bootable CDROM support (this probably means I have to support
ISO-9660 plus maybe even the Rock Ridge extensions... ugh).
Add bootable CDROM support (this probably means I have to support
ISO-9660 plus maybe even the Rock Ridge extensions... ugh).
Add/Finish LBA and/or Int13 extensions support.
Make symbolic links work for BSD FFS.
Fix keyboard/gateA20 bug (???? at least look at the code).
The keyboard status bits may be checked wrong.
Fix keyboard/gateA20 bug (???? at least look at the code). The
keyboard status bits may be checked wrong.
Add indirect block support to the BSD FFS filesystem code, so files
larger than 16MB can be read.
??? Make symbolic links work for BSD FFS.
Add indirect block support to the BSD FFS filesystem code, so files
larger than 16MB can be read.
??? Add command for modifying partition types.
??? Add command for modifying partition types.
Fix-up FreeBSD, NetBSD (and OpenBSD ?) command-line boot parameters
Fix-up FreeBSD, NetBSD (and OpenBSD ?) command-line boot parameters

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@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ Execute your OS's equivalent of (this should work for recent FreeBSD
versions and Linux just fine):<P>
<pre>
dd if=bin/stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
dd if=bin/stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
dd if=stage1/stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
dd if=stage2/stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
</pre>
Under <B>DOS/Windows/NT</B>, courtesy of Eric
@ -156,5 +156,3 @@ a filesystem and config file, with an entry such as:<P>
</BODY>
</HTML>