On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 08:27:38AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
Do you guys have any information that would be worth posting on
http://hurddocs.org? If you're not familiar with the site, it's intended
to be a nice central resource for anything to do with the Hurd.
In general, there are 2 catagories where information like this might go:
"HOWTO" (similar to the linux documentation project) and "WHATIS".
I can also post the release announcement if you'd like.
A note: Currently the site relies on some Style sheet features that may
be buggy in some browsers. Because of this, I recommend that you look at
the site with either a recent snapshot of mozilla, or a browser that
doesn't use style sheets (Netscape with Style sheets disabled, Lynx, w3m,
etc...)
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>
> I'm happy to announce the latest test release of GNU GRUB. You can
> get it from:
>
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/
>
> Debian i386 and source packages have also been uploaded to
> ftp-master.debian.org, and should be available shortly from your
> nearest Debian mirror.
>
> OKUJI Yoshinori has been the primary developer of this release, with
> several other contributors, I just put together the final release
> details.
>
> Here is the relevant NEWS:
>
> New in 0.5.95 - 2000-06-27:
> * NetBSD ELF kernel support is added. You have to specify the new option
> to the command "kernel". See below.
> * Added a new option `--type=TYPE' into the command "kernel". This
> option suggests what type of kernel you want to load. TYPE must be
> either of "netbsd", "freebsd", "openbsd", "linux", "biglinux" and
> "multiboot". Actually, this option will be necessary only if you want
> to load a NetBSD ELF kernel, because GRUB can automatically determine
> a kernel type in the other cases.
> * ReiserFS support is added.
> * Added a new option `--force-lba' into the command "install". This
> option disables some sanity checks for LBA mode (but not all). If you
> are sure that your machine supports LBA mode but GRUB doesn't work in
> LBA mode, you should specify it. It is necessary if your BIOS is too
> buggy. In the previous version, it was a compile-time option, but you
> don't have to recompile GRUB any longer.
> * Likewise, now the command "setup" and the script "grub-install" also
> accept `--force-lba' option. Specifying this option to "setup" or
> "grub-install" has the same effect as to the command "install".
> * The configure script doesn't accept the option
> `--disable-lba-support-bitmap-check' any longer. Use the option above.
> * The network support is updated to Etherboot-4.6.1. So now we have
> 3Com59x and DEPCA drivers.
> * Now you can omit the configuration file argument to the command
> "password". If you omit it, then GRUB will just unlock privileged
> instructions (such as `c') when you enter a correct password.
> * The new command "lock" can be used to prevent end-users from executing
> arbitrary menu entries. This command will emit an error until the user
> enters a correct password.
> * Recognize the Linux extended partition type.
> * Pass a correct memory size to Linux and *BSD.
> * Diskless support is added. Now configure accepts --enable-diskless,
> and "make" will produce two additional images, ``nbgrub'' for Net Boot
> Image Proposal and ``pxegrub'' for Preboot Execution Environment. See
> the documentation, for more details.
> * The command "tftpserver" overrides a TFTP server address returned by a
> BOOTP server, a DHCP server or a RARP server.
> * Fix a serious bug about LBA support. It is possible that you don't
> disable the LBA support bitmap check any longer. Please send a report,
> if you must still disable it. We need to know if we should get rid of
> the option.
>
> Have fun,
>
> --
> Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://fig.org/)
> Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
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