GRUB manual

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

This edition documents version 0.97.

1. Introduction to GRUB		Capturing the spirit of GRUB
2. Naming convention		Names of your drives in GRUB
3. Installation		Installing GRUB on your drive
4. Booting		How to boot different operating systems
5. Configuration		Writing your own configuration file
6. Downloading OS images from a network
7. Using GRUB via a serial line
8. Embedding a configuration file into GRUB
9. Protecting your computer from cracking		Improving the security
10. GRUB image files
11. Filesystem syntax and semantics
12. GRUB's user interface		The menu and the command-line
13. The list of available commands		The list of available builtin commands
14. Error messages reported by GRUB		Error messages produced by GRUB
15. Invoking the grub shell		How to use the grub shell
16. Invoking grub-install		How to use the GRUB installer
17. Invoking grub-md5-crypt		How to generate a cryptic password
18. Invoking grub-terminfo		How to generate a terminfo command
19. Invoking grub-set-default		How to set a default boot entry
20. Invoking mbchk		How to use the Multiboot checker
A. How to obtain and build GRUB
B. Reporting bugs		Where you should send a bug report
C. Where GRUB will go		Some future plans on GRUB
D. Hacking GRUB
Index

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