GNU GRUB

This release adds NetBSD ELF kernel support, ReiserFS support, diskless support, LBA fixes, and extended LBA support. Network boot support was upgraded to Etherboot-4.6.1.

Stage 1 supports both the LBA mode and the CHS mode, a fix for the NetBSD and OpenBSD boot bug, a new setup command for easier installation, many other new commands and improvements in the existing ones, numerous improvements and portability fixes in the GRUB shell, a heavy rewritten netboot support, based on Etherboot-4.4.3, new commands "bootp", "dhcp" and "rarp" can be used to initialize a network device and get IP addresses from a network, and long filename support in the FAT filesystem.

New support for Net/OpenBSD partition ids, FreeBSD kernel in ELF format, FAT32 and Minix filesystems, several new commands (hide, unhide, help, geometry, configfile, device, cat), the UI can now kill and yank, it supports history, and has better completion support.

GNU GRUB is the successor of Erich's great GRUB. Technically speaking, GNU GRUB has many features that are not seen in the original GRUB. For example, GNU GRUB can be installed on UNIX-like operating system (i.e. GNU/Linux) via the Stage2 emulator /sbin/grub, it supports Logical Block Address (LBA) mode that solves the 1024 cylinders problem, and TAB completes a filename when it's unique. Of course, many bug fixes are done as well, so it is recommended to use GNU GRUB. (Citation from Homepage)