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GRUB 2
Currently under development, GRUB 2 has replaced what was formerly
known as GRUB (i.e. version 0.9x), which has, in turn, become GRUB
Legacy. GRUB 2 has been rewritten from scratch to clean up
everything for modularity and portability.
GRUB 2 targets at the following goals:
- Scripting support, such as conditionals, loops, variables and
functions.
- Graphical interface.
- Dynamic loading of modules in order to extend itself at the run
time rather than at the build time.
- Portability for various architectures.
- Internationalization. This includes support for non-ASCII
character code, message catalogs like gettext, fonts, graphics
console, and so on.
- Real memory management, to make GNU GRUB more extensible.
- Modular, hierarchical, object-oriented framework for file
systems, files, devices, drives, terminals, commands, partition
tables and OS loaders.
- Cross-platform installation which allows for installing GRUB
from a different architecture.
- Rescue mode saves unbootable cases. Stage 1.5 was
eliminated.
- Fix design mistakes in GRUB Legacy, which could not be solved
for backward-compatibility, such as the way of numbering
partitions.
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