From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14295 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2010 12:24:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 12839 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Apr 2010 12:21:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FH_HAS_XID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_FX,TW_GF,TW_MK,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BC5B31B.90201@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:24:00 -0000 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100205 SeaMonkey/2.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: grub-1.98-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 Version 1.98-1 of grub has been uploaded. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html Description from README: This is GRUB 2, the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader. GRUB 2 is rewritten from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more robust, more powerful, and more portable. The following packages are available: grub: GRUB binaries build for PC/BIOS architecture. grub-fonts: optional fonts. grub-emu: emulated version of GRUB for debugging purposes. Cygwin NEWS: * GRUB now builds OOTB on Cygwin. Upstream NEWS: New in 1.98: * Graphical menu support. * Saved default menu entry support, with new utilities `grub-reboot' and `grub-set-default'. * Unit testing framework. * Support for multiple terminals. * Encrypted password support, with a new utility `grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2'. * `grub-mkfloppy' removed; use `grub-mkrescue' to create floppy images. * Add support for gettext. New in 1.97: * 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'. Known issues: Due to a regression in the Cygwin specific path conversion, grub-mkconfig does not enable terminal gfxterm automatically. Christian Franke -- To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and keep clicking "Next". If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe If this does not work, then look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.