GRUB 2 is rewritten from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more
robust, more powerful, and more portable.
-Because GRUB 2 was formerly developed under the project PUPA, there
-remain still many places where PUPA is used instead of GRUB 2. So
-suppose that PUPA is a synonym of GRUB 2 for now.
-
See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB 2.
See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the
Please visit the official web page of GRUB 2, for more information.
The URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>.
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-
-Because GRUB 2 is still in developmental stage, GRUB 2 is not for general
-use (yet). For now, you can install GRUB 2 into a floppy by these
-instructions:
+More extensive documentation is available in the Info manual,
+accessible using 'info grub' after building and installing GRUB 2.
-$ configure && make
-$ ./grub-mkimage -v -d . -o core.img _chain ext2
-$ dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
-$ dd if=core.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
+There are a number of important user-visible differences from the
+first version of GRUB, now known as GRUB Legacy. For a summary, please
+see:
-It would be easier to use Bochs <http://bochs.sf.net/> than a real
-machine.
+ info grub Introduction 'Changes from GRUB Legacy'