Re: GRUB 0.97 is released

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

Hi,

On Monday 09 May 2005 15:06, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
> The stage2 of the binary distribution fetched from
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.97-i386-pc.tar.gz
> identifies itself as "GNU GRUB version 0.96" and
> not 0.97  :-(

Oops. The same mistake again. Please don't mind it. It has no bad consequence 
in the functionality.

> These tests were done with a HP Vectra, which required
> (as far as I remember) the "d" parameter for the install
> command. "setup (hd0)" now sets up a correct MBR.

Good.

> * OK: Chainload El Torito
> -------------------------
> I tested the trick to chainload an ISO (El Torito)
> CD image (after having already booted GRUB from floppy
> or hard disk) via memdisk and smart-boot manager, it
> works (see: http://www.lrz.de/~bernhard/grub-chain-cd.html ).
> It worked also in 0.96 :-)

Michael, can you add this into our links?

> * OK: Savedefault / default saved
> ---------------------------------
> appears to work correctly (both, when Grub saves the default
> and when I modify the file "default" by hand).

Good to know.

Thanks,
Okuji