Debian release 0.5-2.

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gord 1999-02-22 03:10:37 +00:00
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Known problems/bugs:
- Try `d' to delete the selected line while editing a menu entry
(maybe only when deleting the last line). Everything goes to hell.
- FreeBSD boot command-line options are slightly problematic, and
OpenBSD options are probably quite wrong. This is because they
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
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
New in 0.5.2 - 1999-01-31, Gordon Matzigkeit:
* Bug fixes.
*
Version 0.5:
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- Fixed some documentation (what little there is :-/ and a few assembly
bugs in the BIOS access routines that nobody reported yet, so I won't
detail it here.

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Treat `(hd)/boot/grub/menu.lst' as searching through the hard drives
for a partition that contains /boot/grub/menu.lst. Either this, or
`(hd:0x82)' means the first partition of type 0x82. We need one of
these dynamic search mechanisms for clean Hurd install floppies.
Syntax:
(hd0,0) -> hd0s1
(hd0,1,b) -> hd0s1b
(hd0) -> hd0
Find out the size restrictions for FAT and ext2fs stage1.5 boot blocks.
Check for other patches sent in e-mail!!! There are several...
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??? Add command for modifying partition types.
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.
Unused partition bytes must be set to 0xFF. For example, if the disk is
partitioned using a simple one-level DOS partitioning scheme, then 'part1'
contains the DOS partition number, and 'part2' and 'part3' are both zero.
contains the DOS partition number, and 'part2' and 'part3' are both 0xFF.
As another example, if a disk is partitioned first into DOS partitions, and
then one of those DOS partitions is subdivided into several BSD partitions
using BSD's "disklabel" strategy, then 'part1' contains the DOS partition
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and 'part3' is 0xFF.<P>
DOS extended partitions are indicated as partition numbers starting from 4
and increasing, rather than as nested sub-partitions, even though the
and increasing, rather than as nested sub-partitions, even though the
underlying disk layout of extended partitions is hierarchical in nature.
For example, if the boot loader boots from the second extended partition
on a disk partitioned in conventional DOS style, then 'part1' will be 5,
and 'part2' and 'part3' will both be 0xFF.<P>
If bit 2 of the flags longword is set, the 'cmdline' field is valid, and
If bit 2 of the flags longword is set, the 'cmdline' field is valid, and
contains the physical address of the the command line to be passed to the
kernel. The command line is a normal C-style null-terminated string.<P>
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</BODY>
</HTML>

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-- the "#define FSYS_BUF", which points to a filesystem buffer which
is 32K in size, to use in any way which the filesystem backend
desires.
desires.
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
overwrite themselves and the whole thing will come apart at the
seams.