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Mads Kiilerich 1d74d59761 remove grub2-efi transformation
All tools and support files are now the same for bios and efi - only the actual
bootloader is different. There is thus no reason to build any tools for efi,
but there is no way to avoid it. We just build and install them and overwrite
with bios files.

By using the same transformation we avoid the problems with the transformation
being included in some un-transformed files.

The old grub2-efi specific are kept as symlinks for backward compatibility.
grub2-efi is still very much work-in-progress and the grub2-efi could probably
be dropped very soon. It would also make sense to move all shared files to a
sub-package.
2012-05-10 09:27:33 -04:00
.gitignore Include theme support. 2012-05-10 09:19:51 -04:00
grub-1.99-Fix-tests-of-zeroed-partition.patch Add support for serial terminal consoles on PPC by Mark Hamzy 2012-03-29 13:40:49 -04:00
grub-1.99-grub_test_assert_printf.patch Rebase from 1.99 to 2.00~beta2 2012-03-29 13:40:49 -04:00
grub-1.99-handle-fwrite-return.patch
grub-1.99-just-say-linux.patch use /etc/system-release for naming of Linux entries instead of GNU/Linux 2012-04-16 12:40:33 -04:00
grub-1.99-ppc-terminfo.patch Manually patch this to make it look like the changes from F17. Ugh. 2012-03-29 13:50:57 -04:00
grub-2.00~beta4-add-support-for-PowerMac-HFS-partitions.patch Various fixes from Mads Kiilerich 2012-04-26 11:09:57 -04:00
grub.default fixes for theme support - make the fonts that are used available 2012-05-10 09:24:08 -04:00
grub2-handle-initramfs-on-xen.patch
grub2.spec remove grub2-efi transformation 2012-05-10 09:27:33 -04:00
README.Fedora
sources Update to grub 2.0 beta 5 2012-05-10 09:23:56 -04:00

Using GNU GRUB 2 in Fedora
==========================

GRUB 2 provides various feature enhancements over the previous GRUB version
(referred to as "GRUB", or "GRUB Legacy") which has been unmaintained upstream
for years. GRUB has thus been deprecated in Fedora and replaced by GRUB 2 for
BIOS systems. (EFI systems still uses GRUB Legacy from the new grub-efi package.)

Utilities
---------

The GRUB 2 utilities are prefixed with 'grub2':

grub2-bin2h
grub2-editenv
grub2-fstest
grub2-install
grub2-kbdcomp
grub2-menulst2cfg
grub2-mkconfig
grub2-mkdevicemap
grub2-mkfont
grub2-mkimage
grub2-mklayout
grub2-mknetdir
grub2-mkpasswd-pbkdf2
grub2-mkrelpath
grub2-mkrescue
grub2-probe
grub2-reboot
grub2-script-check
grub2-set-default
grub2-setup

The default location for boot loader installation is /boot/grub2/ .

GRUB 2 in Fedora
----------------

The Fedora installer (anaconda) will make sure grub2 is installed for new and
updated systems. It will write /etc/default/grub and run grub2-mkconfig to
create /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, and it will run grub2-install to install the boot
loader in the MBR and in /boot/grub2/ .

grubby will patch grub.cfg (through /etc/grub2.cfg) when new kernels are
installed. The GRUB 2 configuration system in /etc/default/grub and /etc/grub.d/
is thus only used initially by anaconda, but it is possible to generate a new
grub.cfg with:

  grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

The active boot loader will not be changed when the GRUB 2 package is updated.
A new boot loader can be installed with something like:

  grub2-install /dev/sda

Documentation
-------------

The GRUB 2 manual can be found on http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/ .

Support channels
----------------

If you find a bug in this package, report them to the Red Hat Bugzilla [2].
For talk about using grub2, use IRC channel #grub on freenode Network [3].
You can meet this package maintainer there (nick lkundrak).

[2] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
[3] http://freenode.net/

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Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Fedora Project