I am not proud to announce Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s3 stable. Super GRUB2 Disk is a live cd that helps you to boot into most any Operating System (OS) even if you cannot boot into it by normal means.
A new stable release
The former Super Grub2 Disk stable release was 2.00s2 version and
released on May 2014 (one year ago). This release does not have as many
new features as the previous stable version but some of them are quite
interesting:
New option: ‘Disks and Partitions (Chainload)’ adapted from Smx work.
Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s3 – Chainload Disks and Partitions
New option: “Enable all native disk drivers” so that you can try to
load: SATA, PATA and USB hard disks (and their partitions) as native
disk drives. This is experimental.
Most options had their search code improved. Super Grub2 Disk should be faster.
Based on grub 2.02 ( commit: 8e5bc2f4d3767485e729ed96ea943570d1cb1e45 )
Super Grub2 Disk builds its own grub based on upstream grub instead of Debian grub.
Mac OS X kernel detection was improved to avoid false detections.
Thanks to upstream grub improvement now Super Grub2 Disk supports booting in EFI mode when booted from a USB device / hard disk. Actually SG2D was announced previously to boot from EFI from a USB device while it only booted from a cdrom.
Many options titles were rewritten so that they are better understood.
Let me repeat it slowly. With Super Grub2 Disk hybrid iso you will be able to boot from:
EFI mode. Cdrom or DVD media.
EFI mode. USB or hard disk media.
BIOS mode. Cdrom or DVD media.
BIOS mode. USB or hard disk media.
We are going to see which are the complete Super Grub2 Disk features
with a demo video, where you can download it, the thank you – hall of
fame and some thoughts about the Super Grub2 Disk development. Please do not forget to read our howtos so that you can have step by step guides (how to make a cdrom or an usb, how to boot from it, etc) on how to use Super Grub2 Disk and, if needed, Rescatux. Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s3 main menu
Tour
Here there is a little video tour in order to discover most of Super
Grub2 Disk options. The rest of the options you will have to discover
them by yourself.
Features
Most of the features here will let you boot into your Operating
Systems. The rest of the options will improve the Super Grub2 Disk
operating systems autodetecting (enable RAID, LVM, etc.) or will deal
with minor aspects of the user interface (Colours, language, etc.).
Change the language UI
Translated into several languages
Spanish / Español
German / Deutsch
French / Français
Italian / Italiano
Malay / Bahasa Melayu
Super Grub2 Disk 2.01 rc2 Spanish Main Menu
Detect and show boot methods option to detect most Operating Systems
Super Grub2 Disk 2.01 beta 3 – Everything menu making use of grub.cfg extract entries option functionality
Enable all native disk drivers *experimental* to detect most Operating Systems also in special devices or filesystems
Boot manually
Operating Systems
grub.cfg – Extract entries
Super Grub2 Disk 2.01 beta 3 grub.cfg Extract entries option
grub.cfg – (GRUB2 configuration files)
menu.lst – (GRUB legacy configuration files)
core.img – (GRUB2 installation (even if mbr is overwritten))
Disks and Partitions (Chainload)
Bootable ISOs (in /boot-isos or /boot/boot-isos
Extra GRUB2 functionality
Enable GRUB2’s LVM support
Enable GRUB2’s RAID support
Enable GRUB2’s PATA support (to work around BIOS bugs/limitation)
Mount encrypted volumes (LUKS and geli)
Enable serial terminal
Extra Search functionality
Search in floppy ON/OFF
Search in CDROM ON/OFF
List Devices / Partitions
Color ON /OFF
Exit
Halt the computer
Reboot the computer
Supported Operating Systems
Excluding too custom kernels from university students Super Grub2
Disk can autodetect and boot most every Operating System. Some examples
are written here so that Google bots can see it and also to make more
confident the final user who searchs his own special (according to him)
Operating System.
Windows
Windows Vista/7/8/8.1
Windows NT/2000/XP
Windows 98/ME
MS-DOS
FreeDOS
GNU/Linux
Direct Kernel with autodetected initrd
Super Grub2 Disk – Detect any Operating System – Linux kernels detected
vmlinuz-*
linux-*
kernel-genkernel-*
Debian / Ubuntu / Mint
Mageia
Fedora / CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
openSUSE / SuSE Linux Enterpsise Server (SLES)
Arch
Any many, many, more.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD (single)
FreeBSD (verbose)
FreeBSD (no ACPI)
FreeBSD (safe mode)
FreeBSD (Default boot loader)
EFI files
Mac OS X/Darwin 32bit or 64bit
Super Grub2 Disk 2.00s2 rc4 Mac OS X entries (Image credit to: Smx)
Support for different hardware platforms
Before this release we only had the hybrid version aimed at regular
pcs. Now with the upcoming new EFI based machines you have the EFI
standalone versions among others. What we don’t support is booting when
secure boot is enabled.
Most any PC thanks to hybrid version (i386, x86_64, x86_64-efi) (ISO)
EFI x86_64 standalone version (EFI)
Additional Floppy, CD and USB in one download (ISO)
i386-pc
x86_64-efi
Known bugs
Non English translations are not completed
Enable all native disk drivers *experimental* crashes Virtualbox randomly
Supported Media
Compact Disk – Read Only Memory (CD-ROM)
Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices
Floppy (1.98s1 version only)
Downloads
Recommended download (Floppy, CD & USB in one) (Valid for i386, x86_64, and x86_64-efi):
About other downloads. As this is the first time I
develop Super Grub2 Disk out of source code (well, probably not the
first time, but the first time in ages) I have not been able to build
these other downloads: coreboot, i386-efi, i386-pc, ieee1275,
x86_64-efi, standalone coreboot, standalone i386-efi, standalone
ieee1275. Help is welcome on this subject.
(Devel) grub-mkstandalone was deleted because we no longer use it
Updated (and added) Copyright notices for 2015
New option: ‘Disks and Partitions (Chainload)’ adapted from Smx work
Many files were rewritten so that they only loop between devices that actually need to be searched into.
This enhacement will make Super Grub2 Disk faster.
Remove Super Grub2 Disk own devices from search by default. Added an
option to be able to enable/disable the Super Grub2 Disk own devices
search.
2.02s2 beta 1 changelog:
Updated grub 2.02 build to commit: 8e5bc2f4d3767485e729ed96ea943570d1cb1e45
Updated documentation for building Super Grub2 Disk
Improvement on upstream grub
(d29259b134257458a98c1ddc05d2a36c677ded37 – test: do not stop after
first file test or closing bracket) will probably make Super Grub2 Disk
run faster.
Added new grub build scripts so that Super Grub2 Disk uses its own
built versions of grub and not the default system / distro / chroot one.
Ensure that Mac OS X entries are detected ok thanks to Users dir.
This is because Grub2 needs to emulate Mac OS X kernel so that it’s
detected as a proper boot device on Apple computers.
Thanks to upstream grub improvement now Super Grub2 Disk supports
booting in EFI mode when booted from a USB device / hard disk. Actually
SG2D was announced previously to boot from EFI from a USB device while
it only booted from a cdrom.
2.02s1 beta 1 changelog:
Added new option: “Enable all native disk drivers” so that you can
try to load: SATA, PATA and USB hard disks (and their partitions) as
native disk drives. This is experimental.
Removed no longer needed options: “Enable USB” and “Enable PATA”.
“Search floppy” and “Search cdrom” options were moved into “Extra
GRUB2 functionality menu”. At the same time “Extra Search functionality”
menu was removed.
Added new straight-forward option: “Enable GRUB2’s RAID and LVM support”.
“List devices/partitions” was renamed to “Print devices/partitions”.
“Everything” option was renamed to “Detect and show boot methods”.
“Everything +” option was removed to avoid confusions.
Other minor improvements in the source code.
Updated translation files. Now most translations are pending.
Updated INSTALL instructions.
Finally you can check all the detailed changes at our GIT commits.
If you want to translate into your language please check TRANSLATION file at source code to learn how to translate into your language.
Thank you – Hall of fame
I want to thank in alphabetical order:
bfree (Niall Wash):
For his work in rethinking how Super Grub2 Disk grub script might be
rewritten although we never used that code. For adding code for EFI
chainloader, helping on building and testing Super Grub2 Disk EFI
releases.
Jordan_U (Jordan Uggla) (jordan.uggla AT gmail DOT com): For his
work in rewriting Lua Super Grub2 Disk into new Grub2 scripting. Also
for his work in translation system based on gettext and po. And also I
want to thank him for all this work in Super Grub2 Disk in many many
ways.
nox (Juergen Lock) (nox AT freebsd DOT org): For his work in fixing *BSD boot entries and helping adding new *BSD boot entries and testing.
Smx (Stefano):
For his Mac OS X / Darwin boot fixes and testing. He has also worked in
redesigning some of the menues and probably his work will be included
in next Super Grub2 Disk versions. He has also worked in a keyboard
selection menu on his own too. That will be also included in next
versions.
The person who writes this article is adrian15
and is proud of being responsible among other things for the rewriting
of options as if they were libraries. And also for the User Interface
(UI) complete redesign.
And I cannot forget about thanking bTactic, the enterprise where I work at and that hosts our site.
Some thoughts about Super Grub2 Disk development
Super Grub2 Disk development to be stalled
There has not been too much feedback for Super Grub2 Disk betas.
Hopefully this new stable release come back with new bugs (Yes, it’s sad
to say so). As I want to focus on new Rescatux stable if no one wants
to help on Super Grub2 Disk development there won’t be any new release
(stable or beta) in a long time.
Rescatux development
I want to focus on Rescatux development on the next months so that we
have an stable release on July 2015. I will probably base it on newest
Debian Jessie.
(adrian15 speaking)
I
have choosen a random day from 2015 to generate some stats of Super
Grub2 Disk usage (and their users). I could use some better stats from a
longer period of time but being exact is not the purpose of this post.
Social networks
There are people who use Google + (1), and comment on it (2). Yeah, although you might not believe it some people use Google+ (3). Twitter (8), yeah, some twits (9) can be found on twitter (10).
Video
There are people who record their videos on Youtube (1) or that use it (2). Actually Youtube (3) is quite popular.
Some people still use the quite old Windows 7 (4). Other people use Gentoo (11).
Summary
As you can see Super Grub2 Disk is being used daily on many parts of
the globe on such distant places as Japan, USA or Iran. You can learn
that Windows 10 has not been released yet because people still use
Windows 7. Hopefully many of the Super Grub2 Disk are young and will
never need to ask for help.
See you next year!
Approximatively in a year I will redo the stats again so that we can compare with this year’s stats.
This
live development is about improving grub detect script so that it does
not loop so much. We will also try to do other improvements.
I would have liked to announce it more in advance but that’s you what you get. Two days or so.
It will take about half an hour or an hour. Depending on it I might do an additional live development for Rescatux after it.
So if you want to join the conversation you need to join the #sgrub channel at freenode.
March 1, 2015 at 15:00 UTC Time. Check the exact time for your country.
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