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GNU GRUB manual
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This is the documentation of GNU GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, a
flexible and powerful boot loader program for a wide range of
architectures.

   This edition documents version 1.97~beta4.

   This manual is for GNU GRUB (version 1.97~beta4, 25 September 2009).

   Copyright (C) 1999,2000,2001,2002,2004,2006,2008,2009 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
     document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
     Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software
     Foundation; with no Invariant Sections.

Introduction

Capturing the spirit of GRUB

Naming convention

Names of your drives in GRUB

Installation

Installing GRUB on your drive

Booting

How to boot different operating systems

Configuration

Writing your own configuration file

Network

Downloading OS images from a network

Serial terminal

Using GRUB via a serial line

Preset Menu

Embedding a configuration file into GRUB

Images

GRUB image files

Filesystem

Filesystem syntax and semantics

Interface

The menu and the command-line

Commands

The list of available builtin commands

Troubleshooting

Error messages produced by GRUB

Invoking the grub shell

How to use the grub shell

Invoking grub-install

How to use the GRUB installer

Invoking grub-terminfo

How to generate a terminfo command

Obtaining and Building GRUB

How to obtain and build GRUB

Reporting bugs

Where you should send a bug report

Future

Some future plans on GRUB

Internals

Hacking GRUB

Copying This Manual

Copying This Manual

Index