The GRUB Manual

The GRand Unified Bootloader, version 0.5.96.1, 16 October 2000.

• Part I: The Tutorial Manual
• Overview
• Naming convention
• Installation
  • Creating a GRUB boot floppy
  • Installing GRUB natively
  • Installing GRUB using grub-install
• Booting
  • How to boot operating systems
    • How to boot an OS directly by GRUB
    • Load another boot loader to boot unsupported operating systems
  • Some caveats on OS-specific issues
    • GNU/Hurd
    • GNU/Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • DOS/Windows
    • SCO UnixWare
• Configuration
• Downloading OS images from a network
  • How to set up your network
  • Booting from a network
• Using GRUB via a serial line
• Security
• Part II: The User Reference Manual
• Introduction
  • History of GRUB
  • GRUB features
  • The role of a boot loader
• GRUB images
• Filesystem syntax and semantics
  • How to specify devices
  • How to specify files
  • How to specify blocklists
• GRUB's user interface
  • The flexible command line interface
  • The simple menu interface
  • Editing a menu entry
• The list of available commands
  • The list of commands for the menu only
  • The list of command-line and menu commands
  • The list of command-line and menu entry commands
• Error messages reported by GRUB
  • Errors reported by the Stage 1
  • Errors reported by the Stage 1.5
  • Errors reported by the Stage 2
• Invoking the grub shell
  • Introduction into the grub shell
  • How to install GRUB via grub
  • The map between BIOS drives and OS devices
• Invoking grub-install
• Invoking mbchk
• Part III: The Programmer Reference Manual
• Implementation details
• The memory map of various components
• Embedded variables in GRUB
• The generic interface for the fs code
• The bootstrap mechanism used in GRUB
• How to detect I/O ports used for a BIOS drive
• How to detect all installed RAM
  • INT 15H, AX=E820h interrupt call
  • INT 15H, AX=E801h interrupt call
  • INT 15H, AX=88h interrupt call
• INT 13H disk I/O interrupts
  • CHS addressing and LBA addressing
  • INT 13H, AH=0xh interrupt call
  • INT 13H, AH=4xh interrupt call
• The structure of Master Boot Record
• The format of partition table
  • Overview the partition table
  • The list of the type code
  • The format of the table entry
  • Some basic rules for partition table
• Appendices and Indices
• Frequently asked questions
• How to obtain and build GRUB
• Reporting bugs
• Index

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