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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!bonkers!not-for-mail From: freyes@i-2000.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Subject: Loader for Freebsd, NetBsd and Linux. Date: 21 Jun 1996 22:01:41 -0500 Organization: I-2000 Inc., Internet Services Lines: 50 Sender: daemon@taronga.com Approved: peter@taronga.com Message-ID: <4qfnml$7sb@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.taronga.com I found the following message in netbsd.announce and thought that may be interesting to FreeBsd users too. ******** From: erich@uruk.org (Erich Boleyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce Subject: GRUB beta, version 0.3 6/17/96 Followup-To: poster Date: 20 Jun 1996 14:48:57 -0700 Message-ID: <4qch09$t4p@agate.berkeley.edu> For any interested, this is an announcement of both a new highly flexible bootloader and a new boot information standard which it supports. First of all, the "Multiboot" proposal is an attempt to both make a reasonably unified bootloader to OS interface, and to improve the quality of those interfaces being used in the free software world. A web page containing a full description can be found at: http://www.uruk.org/grub/boot-proposal.html Secondly, the GRUB distribution is my attempt to provide generic multi-OS booting functionality with all the functionality described in the multiboot document plus some support for native FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, and chainloading other OSes such as DOS/Windows/NT in a fashion which is easy to use for beginners and highly functional for experts. Information on GRUB can be found at: http://www.uruk.org/grub/ The documentation here and in the multiboot proposal is also very useful to prospective OS and bootloader writers for PCs. Several of the techniques used in GRUB have no analogue in the free software world, and a few are apparently superior to proprietary OSes as well. The beta release of GRUB can be retrieved from: ftp://ftp.uruk.org/public/grub/grub-960617.tar.gz It is available under the GNU General Public License, which should be OK for the BSD folks since it is a separate executable. -- Erich Stefan Boleyn \_ E-mail (preferred): <erich@uruk.org> Mad Genius wanna-be, CyberMuffin \__ (finger me for other stats) Web: http://www.uruk.org/~erich/ Motto: "I'll live forever or die trying" This is my home system, so I'm speaking only for myself, not for Intel.