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