grub2 1.98+20100705-1ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

grub2 (1.98+20100705-1ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian.  Remaining changes:
    - Adjust for default Ubuntu boot options ("quiet splash").
    - Default to hiding the menu; holding down Shift at boot will show it.
    - Set a monochromatic theme for Ubuntu.
    - Apply Ubuntu GRUB Legacy changes to legacy update-grub script: title,
      recovery mode, quiet option, tweak how memtest86+ is displayed, and
      use UUIDs where appropriate.
    - Fix backslash-escaping in merge_debconf_into_conf.
    - Remove "GNU/Linux" from default distributor string.
    - Add crashkernel= options if kdump and makedumpfile are available.
    - If other operating systems are installed, then automatically unhide
      the menu.  Otherwise, if GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is 0, then use keystatus
      if available to check whether Shift is pressed.  If it is, show the
      menu, otherwise boot immediately.  If keystatus is not available, then
      fall back to a short delay interruptible with Escape.
    - Allow Shift to interrupt 'sleep --interruptible'.
    - Don't display introductory message about line editing unless we're
      actually offering a shell prompt.  Don't clear the screen just before
      booting if we never drew the menu in the first place.
    - Remove some verbose messages printed before reading the configuration
      file.
    - Suppress progress messages as the kernel and initrd load for
      non-recovery kernel menu entries.
    - Keep the loopback file open so that subsequent changes to the "root"
      environment variable don't affect it.
    - Change prepare_grub_to_access_device to handle filesystems
      loop-mounted on file images.
    - Ignore devices loop-mounted from files in 10_linux.
    - Show the boot menu if the previous boot failed, that is if it failed
      to get to the end of one of the normal runlevels.
    - Handle RAID devices containing virtio components.
    - Don't generate /boot/grub/device.map during grub-install or
      grub-mkconfig by default.
    - Adjust upgrade version checks for Ubuntu.
    - Change priority to optional to match the priority of grub.
    - Don't display "GRUB loading" unless Shift is held down.
    - Adjust versions of grub-doc and grub-legacy-doc conflicts to tolerate
      our backport of the grub-doc split.
    - Fix LVM/RAID probing in the absence of /boot/grub/device.map.
    - Look for .mo files in /usr/share/locale-langpack as well, in
      preference.
    - Make sure GRUB_TIMEOUT isn't quoted unnecessarily.
    - Probe all devices in 'grub-probe --target=drive' if
      /boot/grub/device.map is missing.
    - Adjust hostdisk id for hard disks, allowing grub-setup to use its
      standard workaround for broken BIOSes.
    - grub-common Breaks: lupin-support (<< 0.30) due to a grub-mkimage
      syntax change.
    - Build-depend on qemu-kvm rather than qemu-system for grub-pc tests.
    - Use qemu rather than qemu-system-i386.
    - Extend the EFI version of grub-install to be able to install into an
      EFI System Partition mounted on /boot/efi in a location that complies
      with the EFI specification.
    - Upgrade the installed core image when upgrading grub-efi-ia32 or
      grub-efi-amd64, although only if /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu already exists.
    - Make grub-efi-ia32 and grub-efi-amd64 depend on efibootmgr so that
      grub-install works properly.

grub2 (1.98+20100705-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New Bazaar snapshot.
    - Bidi and diacritics support.
      + Use terminfo for ieee1275 terminals (closes: #586953).
    - Don't use empty grub_device in EFI grub-install (closes: #587838).
    - Fix grub-setup core.img comparison when not embedding (thanks, Matt
      Kraai and M. Vefa Bicakci; closes: #586621).

  * Update Source: in debian/copyright (thanks, Jörg Sommer).
  * Convert by-id disk device names from device.map to traditional device
    names for display (closes: #587951).
  * Set urgency=medium.  We've cleared out most of the apparent regressions
    at this point, and #550704 is getting more and more urgent to fix in
    testing.

grub2 (1.98+20100702-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New Bazaar snapshot.
    - Use video functions in Linux loader rather than hardcoding UGA; load
      all available video backends (closes: #565576, probably).
    - Add support for initrd images on Fedora 13.
    - Output grub.cfg stanzas for Xen (closes: #505517).
    - Add 'cat --dos' option to treat DOS-style "\r\n" line endings as
      simple newlines (closes: #586358).
    - Change grub-mkdevicemap to emit /dev/disk/by-id/ names where possible
      on Linux.
    - Return CF correctly in mmap e820/e801 int15 hook (closes: #584846).
    - The info documentation now has no broken references, although of
      course it could still use more work (closes: #553460).
    - Support GRUB_BADRAM in grub-mkconfig.
    - Skip LVM snapshots (closes: #574863).

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Mention grub-rescue-usb.img in grub-rescue-pc description (closes:
    #586462).
  * Add instructions for using grub-rescue-usb.img (closes: #586463).
  * Remove /usr/lib/grub/mips-* from grub-common rather than the incorrect
    /usr/lib/grub/mipsel-*, so that it stops clashing with grub-yeeloong;
    add a versioned Replaces to grub-yeeloong just in case (closes:
    #586526).
  * Remove qemu-system build-dependency on hurd-i386, where it doesn't seem
    to exist.  Disable tests if qemu-system-i386 isn't available.
  * Mark "upgrade-from-grub-legacy" paragraph in
    grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst as untranslatable.
  * Update Homepage field (thanks, Sedat Dilek).
  * On Linux, if /boot/grub/device.map exists on upgrade to this version,
    regenerate it to use stable device names in /dev/disk/by-id/.  If it had
    more than one entry, then display a critical-priority debconf note
    (sorry, but it's better than silently breaking boot menu entries)
    advising people to check custom boot menu entries and update them if
    necessary (closes: #583271).
  * Use 'set -e' rather than '#! /bin/sh -e' or '#! /bin/bash -e', to avoid
    accidents when debugging with 'sh -x'.
  * Store grub-pc/install_devices as persistent device names under
    /dev/disk/by-id/ (closes: #554790).  Migrate previous device names to
    that, with explicit confirmation in non-trivial cases to make sure we
    got the right ones.  If the devices we were told to install to ever go
    away, ask again.  (This is based on the implementation in Ubuntu.)
  * If grub-install fails during upgrade-from-grub-legacy, allow the user to
    try again with a different device, but failing that cancel the upgrade
    (closes: #587790).
  * Remove numbering from patch files.  The order is now explicit in a quilt
    series file, and renumbering from time to time is tedious.

  [ Updated translations ]
  * Ukrainian (uk.po) by Yatsenko Alexandr / Borys Yanovych (closes:
    #586611).
  * Indonesian (id.po) by Arief S Fitrianto (closes: #586799).
  * Swedish (sv.po) by Martin Bagge (closes: #586827).
  * Persian (fa.po) by Behrad Eslamifar (closes: #587085).
  * French (fr.po) by Christian Perrier (closes: #587383).
  * Galician (gl.po) by Jorge Barreiro (closes: #587796).

  [ Robert Millan ]
  * Add commented GRUB_BADRAM example in debian/default/grub.

grub2 (1.98+20100617-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New Bazaar snapshot.
    - Fix i386-pc prefix handling with nested partitions (closes: #585068).

  * When running grub-pc.postinst from upgrade-from-grub-legacy, tell it to
    disregard the fact that /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst still
    exist (closes: #550477).
  * Touch a marker file when grub-install is run but GRUB Legacy files are
    still around.  If that marker file is present, pretend that GRUB Legacy
    files are missing when upgrading.
  * If GRUB Legacy files are present when upgrading, scan boot sectors of
    all disks for GRUB 2.  If we find GRUB 2 installed anywhere, then ask
    the user if they want to finish conversion to GRUB 2, and warn them that
    not doing so may render the system unbootable (closes: #586143).  Thanks
    to Sedat Dilek for helping to narrow down this bug.
  * Leaving grub-pc/install_devices empty makes sense in some situations,
    but more often than not is a mistake.  On the other hand, automatically
    selecting all disk devices would upset some people too.  Compromise by
    simply asking for explicit confirmation if grub-pc/install_devices is
    left empty, defaulting to false so that simply selecting all the
    defaults in debconf can't leave you with an unbootable system (closes:
    #547944, #557425).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:28:07 +0100