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Changes between grml 2009.10-rc1 and grml 2009.10

If you’re interested in the main changes between rc1 of 2009.10 and the final stable release: Changes in all flavours:

  • updated grml2hd: bugfixes (adjust grub handling to support grub2, fix handling of custom bootoptions in bootloaders, fix grub support in non-interactive mode), added support for ext4 and some further minor updates/bugfixes
  • updated grml2usb: integration of grml2usb-compat, updates for new features in grml-live, updated grml2iso (copy additional files to ISO, better support for grml2usb), support removal of bootoptions, use dynamic check for addons as current grml-small includes addons, support running on a generated grml2usb iso/directory
  • updated grml-autoconfig: bugfixes (font-handling in non-framebuffer mode, handling of grml.sh)
  • updated grml-debootstrap: added support for and use support grub2 by default, dropped $GROOT and modified usage of $GRUB, replaced vol_id command with blkid, use cdn.debian.net as default mirror
  • updated grml-docs: update files for release
  • updated grml-etc: bugfixes (eject handling)
  • updated grml-tips: added further tips, updated existing ones
  • updated grub-pc + grub-common (stable release)
  • kernel 2.6.31-grml[64]: update to new version based on stable release 2.6.31.5 Changes in flavour grml/grml64:
  • added ewf-tools, fio + guymager
  • updated grml-live: direct integration of grub1, update and direct integration of grub2, gPXE, update of ldbsd.com
  • updated firmware-iwlwifi, firmware-qlogic + firmware-ralink (feature update)
  • updated grml-terminalserver: drop support for grub.img (fails to build with recent toolchains, use gPXE/etherboot instead), integrated grml2usb for generating pxeconfig
  • dropped deprecated grml-terminalserver-data + ash packages Changes in flavour grml-medium/grml64-medium:
  • updated firmware-iwlwifi + firmware-ralink (feature update)
  • updated grml-live: direct integration of grub1, update and direct integration of grub2, gPXE, update of ldbsd.com
  • updated grml-terminalserver: drop support for grub.img (fails to build with recent toolchains, use gPXE/etherboot instead), integrated grml2usb for generating pxeconfig
  • dropped deprecated grml-terminalserver-data + ash packages Changes in flavour grml-small/grml64-small:
  • added parted