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posted by martyb on Saturday April 29 2017, @09:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the download-it-now dept.

Softpedia News reports that version 2.02 of the GRUB boot loader has been released. Among the many new features are support for LZ4 compression on ZFS, 64-bit ext2, XFS v5, Morse code output and a modem-like output through the PC speaker, Xen paravirtualisation, TrueCrypt ISOs, Apple fat binaries on non-Apple hardware, and 16-bit mode on non-x86 hardware.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @11:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @11:32PM (#501717)

    This. Booting is hard. You don't have an OS to rely on, you may be booting to one of several different OS's running on god only knows how many filesystems, and you have to deal with different storage technologies and hardware variants.