#3130: GRUB-2.00
-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------
Reporter: bdubbs@… | Owner: lfs-book@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.2
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00.tar.xz
This is a pretty major update.
* Appearence:
* Official theme for gfxmenu (starfield)
* Menu is organised with submenus.
* Better default video mode selection using EDID.
* New platforms:
* Itanium port.
* Fuloong2F support (including GRUB as firmware)
* Fuloong2E support (except GRUB as firmware)
* ARCS (SGI machines) port.
* qemu -M mips port.
* grub-mount to mount filesystems using GRUB FS drivers and FUSE.
* Changed security default so entries are locked by default if any
superuser is defined.
* New drivers:
* EHCI.
* AHCI.
* ESCC serial.
* IEEE1275 serial.
* EFI serial.
* Network stack for BIOS, IEEE1275, EMU and EFI, including TFTP, HTTP
and DNS.
* VBE on coreboot support.
* New filesystem, filters and disks formats:
* DVH partition map.
* Plan9 partition map.
* Big-endian mdraid.
* Big-endian cpio.
* ODC and NEWC cpio.
* ExFAT.
* Minix3fs.
* Big-endian minixfs.
* RomFS.
* Squash4.
* Support non-512B disk blocks.
* LUKS and GELI support.
* LDM read support (no install yet).
* LZOP.
* Improved filesystem and disks formats support:
* HFS+ label support.
* Improved reiserfs support.
* multidevice, mirrored and raidz(2,3) ZFS support.
* RAID LVM (internal RAIDing) support.
* ZFS crypto support.
* ZLE and GZIP on ZFS support.
* Support ZFS up to 33.
* HFS string is now treated like mac-roman and not UTF-8
* HFS mtime support.
* Improved AFFS and SFS support.
* LZO-compressed btrfs support.
* cpio and tar symlinks support.
* Better FS detection to reduce false positives.
* New boot protocols:
* Ability to load another coreboot payload when on coreboot.
* Plan9.
* Freedos.
* Ntldr/bootmgr (to load Windows bootloader).
* chainloader --bpb support to patch FAT or NTFS BPB in memory to
correct wrong partition offset.
* PXE chainloading support.
* Darwin 11 (Mac OS X Lion) protocol support.
* Boot protocol improvements:
* Multiple initrd support.
* Basic illumos and xnu autoconfig.
* Testing and debugging:
* New grub-fstest commands: cat, zfsinfo, testload xnu_uuid
* grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly checking that a
directory is read correctly.
* Backtace on crash (if gdb module is loaded, x86 only)
* Disk cache statistics gathering.
* GDB stub and GDB support script.
* "make check" and "make bootcheck" expanded to almost all platforms
(except i386-ieee1275, mips-arc, sparc64-ieee1275, ia64-efi and emu)
* New `time' command.
* Performance:
* Lazy scanning to avoid accessing devices which aren't really used.
This avoids boot delay due to slow device scanning.
* Use CPU cache when accessing video memory.
* Search hints to first try the most likely device when searching for a
device with given UUID. This avoids slow scanning in most cases.
* Internationalisation:
* Updated to Unicode 6.0.
* $"..." syntax for translation in grub scripting language. This allows
easy translation of grub.cfg at runtime.
* Translations to many languages included in official distribution.
* Scripting:
* $grub_cpu and $grub_platform variables for conditioning grub.cfg on
platform
at runtime.
* $feature_* variables to condition scripts on available features.
* Use of ids to identify menu entries.
* all_video module which is empty but depends on all video modules thus
allowing easy loading of all of them.
* Installation:
* grub-mknetdir script for easy creation of netbootable GRUB directory.
* Itanium and mips support in grub-mkrescue.
* grub-install support for all platforms except emu.
* PreP partition install support.
* No files conflict between flavours (except grub-mkrescue for ppc).
This allows easy install of GRUB for several platforms.
* grub-mkstandalone script for easy creating of image including all
modules for platforms with generous limit on image size.
* program-transform-name now functions according to usual conventions.
Use --grubdir and --bootdir to get old behaviour.
* ADLER32 and CRC64 support (for XZ and hashsum).
* ofconsole renamed to console
* Experimental support for compiling with Apple toolchain.
* grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on invocation of
any grub utility.
--
Ticket URL: <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/3130>
LFS Trac <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/>
Linux From Scratch: Your Distro, Your Rules.
--
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html
Unsubscribe: See the above information page
