First of all, I would like to thank all the contributors of Grub for their great work and for making this new release available. Good Job !!!
But I was really hoping to see some patches as part of the Grub-0.95 release.
The code divergence of these patches from the original release make them now incompatible with each other and the merge looks like very painful.
Each one of them bring a lot of new great features that I really would like to have integrated within a single grub release.
Here is some of the patches I am talking about:
1) The Network patch by Hans-Peter Jansen and Feng Shuo:
"https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9408"
which adds an updated set of drivers to the Grub network boot capability.
Most of the new network adapters (like gigabit) are part of this patch.
Known bug: ARP or unsolicited UDP traffic stops the GRUB TFTP download:
"https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9245"
It should be fixed soon by Feng Shuo.
2) Grub4dos and Grub4all which allow to boot grub from DOS (grub.exe) and from the NT/XP boot loader (boot.ini+grldrstart+grldr) respectively.
Grub4Dos is done by "Tinybit" from China and also integrates some very nice floppy/disk image mapping and emulation boot features (instead of the memdisk kernel) and you can get it from here: "http://newdos.yginfo.net/grubdos.htm"
Grub4all is done by "Gandalf" and adds the fsys_ntfs.c to Grub4dos for the NT support:
"https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9180"
What would be best way to get a new release including all these great features ?
Any suggestion ?
Thanks, Gilles 作者: 不点 时间: 2004-6-30 00:00 谢谢fengshuo. 我也看到了ruymbeke 的这条消息,但我不善于使用英文, 也从来没有成功在 GNU GRUB 的 BUG 邮件列表上发过帖子, 所以,好像前些天已经请 wengier 替我回复了 ruymbeke。
我最近准备把 grub for dos 的补丁打在 GNU GRUB 0.95 上。由于我目前无法得到 NTFS 文件系统的补丁(下载时说文件不存在), 所以,这个整合的工作我暂时不做。我已经做的有: 软盘和硬盘仿真,splashimage 支持。我准备把这两项融进 gnu grub 0.95 中, 并作为 grub4dos 0.2.0pre8 发布。
很遗憾我不能写英文的说明文档。中文文档我写过了,在这里可以找到:
ftp://ftp.linuxeden.com/tinybit/index.html
希望谁能够以此为基础, 从而写出一篇英文的文档,以便放入 GNU GRUB 的 info 和 man 中。