Debian release 0.5-2.
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Known problems/bugs:
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- Try `d' to delete the selected line while editing a menu entry
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(maybe only when deleting the last line). Everything goes to hell.
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- FreeBSD boot command-line options are slightly problematic, and
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OpenBSD options are probably quite wrong. This is because they
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use options that are bits in a data word passed at boot time, and
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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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NEWS - list of user-visible changes between releases of GRUB
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New in 0.5.2 - 1999-01-31, Gordon Matzigkeit:
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* Bug fixes.
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*
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Version 0.5:
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- Fixed some documentation (what little there is :-/ and a few assembly
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bugs in the BIOS access routines that nobody reported yet, so I won't
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detail it here.
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docs/TODO
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docs/TODO
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Treat `(hd)/boot/grub/menu.lst' as searching through the hard drives
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for a partition that contains /boot/grub/menu.lst. Either this, or
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`(hd:0x82)' means the first partition of type 0x82. We need one of
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these dynamic search mechanisms for clean Hurd install floppies.
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Syntax:
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(hd0,0) -> hd0s1
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(hd0,1,b) -> hd0s1b
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(hd0) -> hd0
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Find out the size restrictions for FAT and ext2fs stage1.5 boot blocks.
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Check for other patches sent in e-mail!!! There are several...
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??? Add command for modifying partition types.
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Fix-up FreeBSD, NetBSD (and OpenBSD ?) command-line boot parameters
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the top-level partition, etc. Partition numbers always start from zero.
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Unused partition bytes must be set to 0xFF. For example, if the disk is
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partitioned using a simple one-level DOS partitioning scheme, then 'part1'
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contains the DOS partition number, and 'part2' and 'part3' are both zero.
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contains the DOS partition number, and 'part2' and 'part3' are both 0xFF.
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As another example, if a disk is partitioned first into DOS partitions, and
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then one of those DOS partitions is subdivided into several BSD partitions
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using BSD's "disklabel" strategy, then 'part1' contains the DOS partition
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and 'part3' is 0xFF.<P>
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DOS extended partitions are indicated as partition numbers starting from 4
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and increasing, rather than as nested sub-partitions, even though the
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and increasing, rather than as nested sub-partitions, even though the
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underlying disk layout of extended partitions is hierarchical in nature.
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For example, if the boot loader boots from the second extended partition
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on a disk partitioned in conventional DOS style, then 'part1' will be 5,
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and 'part2' and 'part3' will both be 0xFF.<P>
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If bit 2 of the flags longword is set, the 'cmdline' field is valid, and
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If bit 2 of the flags longword is set, the 'cmdline' field is valid, and
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contains the physical address of the the command line to be passed to the
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kernel. The command line is a normal C-style null-terminated string.<P>
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</BODY>
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</HTML>
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-- the "#define FSYS_BUF", which points to a filesystem buffer which
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is 32K in size, to use in any way which the filesystem backend
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desires.
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desires.
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The variables which need to be written by a filesystem backend are:
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-- If the "blocksize" is greater than 8Kbytes, various buffers will
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overwrite themselves and the whole thing will come apart at the
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seams.
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