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This is GRUB 2, the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader.
GRUB 2 is rewritten from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more
robust, more powerful, and more portable.

See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB 2.

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the
GRUB 2 data and program files.

Please visit the official web page of GRUB 2, for more information.
The URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>.

More extensive documentation is available in the Info manual,
accessible using 'info grub' after building and installing GRUB 2.
Please look at the GRUB Wiki <http://grub.enbug.org> for testing
procedures.

There are a number of important user-visible differences from the
first version of GRUB, now known as GRUB Legacy. For a summary, please
see:

  info grub Introduction 'Changes from GRUB Legacy'
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3b1139cb	1	This is GRUB 2, the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader.
	2	GRUB 2 is rewritten from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more
	3	robust, more powerful, and more portable.
6a161fa9	4
3b1139cb	5	See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB 2.
6a161fa9	6
6a161fa9	7	See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the
3b1139cb	8	GRUB 2 data and program files.
6a161fa9	9
3b1139cb	10	Please visit the official web page of GRUB 2, for more information.
3b1139cb	11	The URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>.
6a161fa9	12
1a1f1e67 CW	13	More extensive documentation is available in the Info manual,
	14	accessible using 'info grub' after building and installing GRUB 2.
	15	Please look at the GRUB Wiki <http://grub.enbug.org> for testing
	16	procedures.
	17
	18	There are a number of important user-visible differences from the
	19	first version of GRUB, now known as GRUB Legacy. For a summary, please
	20	see:
	21
	22	info grub Introduction 'Changes from GRUB Legacy'