netboot support for GRUB

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth at innocent.com>
Subject: Re: netboot support for GRUB
Date: 15 Jun 1999 16:38:42 +0200

> What's the difference between GNU GRUB and Erich Boleyn's original
> GRUB?  (Your draft webpage doesn't say this, but it should.)

  Let me tell you the history.

  We needed to enhance/fix GRUB, so Gordon Matzigkeit <gord at fig.org>
asked him, "Are you plan to release grub-0.5.1 or something?" He
answered that he would do it very soon, but it was not released. Then
Gordon asked him, "If you are busy for other tasks, please consider
that you would give the maintainership to us." [snip] Thus, He decided
that he would give up working on GRUB until he would have time enough
to work on it, and Gordon took the maintainership.

  After that, Gordon heavily worked on our own GRUB, that is, GNU
GRUB, mainly, he implemented the base of /sbin/grub and fixed many
bugs. But then Gordon became very busy, so I have become the
co-maintainer of GNU GRUB.

  Currently I'm working on GNU GRUB towards the next release,
grub-0.6. My urgent task is LBA support in stage1, the GNU GRUB manual,
enchancement of /sbin/grub, *BSD-related bug fixes and incorporation
of many patches for GRUB.

> chosen to ignore this problem.  What's your stance on this?

  That's difficult to answer. Personally I like BSD license as well as
GPL, but the GNU Project might disagree with me. I'll talk with GNU.

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