1*1b8adde7SWilliam KucharskiThis is GNU GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader. GRUB is intended to 2*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharskiprovide important bootloader features that are missing from typical 3*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharskipersonal computer BIOSes: 4*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski 5*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski - provides fully-featured command line and graphical interfaces 6*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski - recognizes fdisk partitions and BSD disklabels 7*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski - can dynamically read Linux ext2fs, ReiserFS, JFS and XFS, BSD ufs, 8*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski MS-DOS FAT16 and FAT32, Minix fs, and VSTa fs filesystems, plus 9*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski hardcoded blocklists 10*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski - can boot Multiboot-compliant kernels (such as GNU Mach), as well 11*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski as standard Linux and *BSD kernels 12*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski 13*1b8adde7SWilliam KucharskiSee the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB. 14*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski 15*1b8adde7SWilliam KucharskiIf you are interested in the network support, see the file 16*1b8adde7SWilliam KucharskiREADME.netboot under the directory netboot. 17*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski 18*1b8adde7SWilliam KucharskiSee the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the 19*1b8adde7SWilliam KucharskiGRUB data and program files. See the GRUB manual for details about 20*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharskiusing GRUB as your boot loader. Type "info grub" in the shell prompt. 21*1b8adde7SWilliam Kucharski 22*1b8adde7SWilliam KucharskiPlease visit the official web page of GNU GRUB, for more information. 23*1b8adde7SWilliam KucharskiThe URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>. 24