From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N281A-0007Xo-5f for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:40:40 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2818-0007Vy-HA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:40:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2814-0007UR-2L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:40:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50424 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N2813-0007UF-W5; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:40:34 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:49541 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2813-0005p7-Bg; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:40:33 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N280s-0005mk-Sd; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:40:24 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N280k-00010I-F0; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:40:14 +0100 Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:40:14 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: grub-devel@gnu.org, info-gnu@gnu.org Message-ID: <20091025184014.GA3211@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R" Content-Disposition: inline Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Cc: coreboot@coreboot.org Subject: GRUB 1.97 released X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:40:38 -0000 --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24" Content-Disposition: inline --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I'm proud to announce the release of GNU GRUB version 1.97. GRUB, also known as the GRand Unified Bootloader, is a modular, portable bootloader that supports a number of platforms, including standard BIOS-bas= ed PCs, IEEE-1275 platforms (such as the OLPC and some PowerPC/Sparc64 hardwar= e) and coreboot, the free (as in freedom) pre-boot initialization framework. This release of GRUB is a significant breakthrough compared to GRUB 1.96. Among a long list of improvements (excerpt from NEWS file is attached), GRUB 1.97 includes support for booting the kernels of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, it detects the Ext4 filesystem which is commonly used with the kernel Linux, and it implements a robust mechanism for booting from GPT drives, by embedding itself in the BIOS Boot partition. A source tarball for the new release can be found at: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.97.tar.gz and its GPG detached signature [*]: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.97.tar.gz.sig [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify grub-1.97.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys DEA2C38E and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.61 Ruby 1.8.7 GCC 4.4 is the recommended version for building it, although any version starting with 4.1.3 is supported in this release. I hope you enjoy using GRUB as much as we enjoyed developing it. --=20 Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=NEWS * Add support for loading XNU (MacOS X kernel). * ACPI override support. * Integrated gptsync. * Password protection support. * Partition manipulation tool. * Add `keystatus' command. * Unicode fonts are now used by default. * Add `hdparm' command. * Add support for getting the current date and time from CMOS as variables. * Add `drivemap' command. * Add support for RAID levels 4,6 and 10. * update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig. * When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files. * High resolution timer support. * Image loaders now support IO buffering. * Add `crc' command. * Add Cygwin support. * Add x86_64 EFI support. * Use LZMA compression instead of LZO. * Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment from a file. * Allow the UUID to be used as device name. * The `search' command can use UUIDs now. * Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386. * Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map modules. * grub-mkconfig supports os-prober to add operating systems to the boot menu. * The ATA driver supports devices bigger than 2 TiB. * Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems. * The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension * Add support for loading kernels of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. * Add new command `sleep'. * Support for direct access to AT keyboards. * New utility `grub-fstest'. --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24-- --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJK5JuOAAoJELd1onhloKnOULwP/3CQ2d0XmbmfOPWJ7YQawoMS AH4I/h3lJJtOMrORqpQ/5Uhmdc+nBTLsBB7HUGPXqZkV2uPhEWx3QvRHscPTkCoa Ug5gvTQBHVV6KFB6kLcj9kUoyC+nPRwDxCEqmDwYhWh6b2kkiaWxWVxlgnLHjofp vOIB/rtgrhGtxfLp7nRSMj37s+NOHJzJIWDJSeOjNfX15Wg1JDtVP5Iv+KedVoT1 LmJ1zMNrICj29aRsUgIiG7cNbbjJ8W5ovaeYP10GP2/XTp7LE346ZtVYT+wtskD1 8FeAHHbwav2O/bfDmt8uWXzhrR2gcRhjUtY04Rhp2ct6yPy8KcIpVsi5y9shVTn9 ddatoP5NrlHRBdmWRrvrcxAlCKU90MWi8oRDBibs7yPUanu93aMjL4e8Wg/YyzvR jIsBKoBea+Y9fDXGZVsnd0JIZCHwQF5B400LMd9jtmkygXNyo6qLcWEOi6w6nwfW o9sAzYavmlVH+9skSblRrecC7rIBEmb7u8qRuY0+ihnyi5T0ETMZCjW8/0hQo01P 0s8MAbCHJ71tGuPnirOej9lhlhaCIASvtGxKAhmYmZm6iyVx/vyBeT2rZtANe5Wy V8qytJSTeYlFWPj42Xbzi2qBj2pjmeeLyqxn9pYxA2Xm1bKaocalqjD5JCGfwFGd 5gxBh8X0vrAmvYoj5N6m =la0N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R--