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This is a fork of Grub to provide crypto extensions. The functionality has now been implemented upstream, so please go there for assistance; the URL is http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html. For background on this repository please see https://grub.johnlane.ie.

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.

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'