This is GNU GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader. GRUB is intended to provide important bootloader features that are missing from typical personal computer BIOSes: - provides fully-featured command line and graphical interfaces - recognizes fdisk partitions and BSD disklabels - can dynamically read Linux ext2fs, BSD ufs, and MS-DOS FAT filesystems, plus hardcoded blocklists - can boot Multiboot-compliant kernels (such as GNU Mach), as well as standard Linux and BSD kernels See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB. See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the GRUB data and program files. See `docs/install.html' for details about using GRUB as your bootloader. If you have any suggestions or bug reports, please send electronic mail to the GRUB mailing list <bug-grub@gnu.org>. DEVELOPERS: to subscribe to the mailing list, send e-mail to <bug-grub-request@gnu.org>. You can get the latest GRUB CVS tree from `:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.gnu.org:/gd/gnu/anoncvsroot', module `grub'. Just hit enter when CVS prompts you for a password. IMPORTANT SIZE LIMITS: - For the various stage2's, if they are being loaded from a block-list in the stage1, then be sure your blocklist is big enough. The automated install will generally do this for you, it's just when dropping it on a raw floppy, you get the default compiled in, which is 512 * 80 disk sectors, or 40960 bytes. - For the FFS stage1.5, if you want to fit into the "bootloader" area of an FFS partition, it cannot be larger than 512 * 14 disk sectors, or 7168 bytes.