* Ability to load another coreboot payload when on coreboot.
* Plan9.
* Freedos.
- * Ntldr/bootmgr (Windows bootloader).
- * chainloader --bpb support.
+ * Ntldr/bootmgr (to load Windows bootloader).
+ * chainloader --bpb support to patch FAT or NTFS BPB in memory to correct
+ wrong partition offset.
* PXE chainloading support.
* Darwin 11 (Mac OS X Lion) protocol support.
* Testing and debugging:
* New grub-fstest commands: cat, zfsinfo, testload xnu_uuid
- * grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly check that directory is
- read correctly.
+ * grub-fstest recursive directory compare for quickly checking that
+ a directory is read correctly.
* Backtace on crash (if gdb module is loaded, x86 only)
* Disk cache statistics gathering.
* GDB stub and GDB support script.
* New `time' command.
* Performance:
- * Lazy scanning for improved performance.
+ * Lazy scanning to avoid accessing devices which aren't really used.
+ This avoids boot delay due to slow device scanning.
* Use CPU cache when accessing video memory.
- * Search hints for better performance.
+ * Search hints to first try the most likely device when searching for a
+ device with given UUID. This avoids slow scanning in most cases.
* Internationalisation:
* Updated to Unicode 6.0.
- * $"..." syntax for translation in grub script. This allows easy
+ * $"..." syntax for translation in grub scripting language. This allows easy
translation of grub.cfg at runtime.
* Translations to many languages included in official distribution.
* Scripting:
* $grub_cpu and $grub_platform variables for conditioning grub.cfg on platform
- on runtime.
+ at runtime.
* $feature_* variables to condition scripts on available features.
* Use of ids to identify menu entries.
* all_video module which is empty but depends on all video modules thus
* Experimental support for compiling with Apple toolchain.
-* grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on runtime.
+* grub-mkdevicemap removed. Now all devices are detected on invocation of
+ any grub utility.
New in 1.99: