1*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COMThis is GNU GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader. GRUB is intended to 2*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COMprovide important bootloader features that are missing from typical 3*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COMpersonal computer BIOSes: 4*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM 5*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM - provides fully-featured command line and graphical interfaces 6*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM - recognizes fdisk partitions and BSD disklabels 7*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM - can dynamically read Linux ext2fs, ReiserFS, JFS and XFS, BSD ufs, 8*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM MS-DOS FAT16 and FAT32, Minix fs, and VSTa fs filesystems, plus 9*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM hardcoded blocklists 10*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM - can boot Multiboot-compliant kernels (such as GNU Mach), as well 11*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM as standard Linux and *BSD kernels 12*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM 13*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COMSee the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB. 14*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM 15*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COMIf you are interested in the network support, see the file 16*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COMREADME.netboot under the directory netboot. 17*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM 18*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COMSee the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the 19*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COMGRUB data and program files. See the GRUB manual for details about 20*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COMusing GRUB as your boot loader. Type "info grub" in the shell prompt. 21*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COM 22*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COMPlease visit the official web page of GNU GRUB, for more information. 23*8044SWilliam.Kucharski@Sun.COMThe URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>. 24