Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s2-beta1 is here.

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 beta release

A new beta release which adds SecureBoot support to Super Grub2 Disk. For now Ubuntu (x64) and Debian (ia32 and x64) are only supported, although you can boot into another Distro’s shim (if it’s signed by ‘Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011’) which it’s usually able to boot into its own menu. The specific SecureBoot support aimed at Ubuntu and Debian lets you boot into your Debian or Ubuntu kernels even if there is not shimx64.efi or grub.cfg available in your hard disk. Documentation, specially the developer one, was improved a lot.

I am supposed to add SecureBoot support for more distros so, please, if you have problems booting into Debian or Ubuntu please try this version ( supergrub2-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-USB.img.zip ) and give us feedback in github issues page so that we can fix it properly. Please specify the exact filename you are using.

Additional note just in case it’s not clear enough. There has been a renaming of Super Grub2 Disk files. So filenames with ‘classic’ on them means that they do NOT support SecureBoot.

Enjoy the beta and, once again, please give us feedback to report us if it works ok or not for you.

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.

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
  • Russian
  • Finnish / Suomi
  • Chinese

• Detect and show boot methods option to detect most Operating Systems

• 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

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 10
  • Windows Vista/7/8/8.1
  • Windows NT/2000/XP
  • Windows 98/ME
  • MS-DOS
  • FreeDOS
• GNU/Linux
  • Direct Kernel with autodetected initrd

• 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

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, i386-efi, x86_64-efi) (ISO)
• EFI x86_64 standalone version (EFI)
• EFI i386 standalone version (EFI)
• Additional Floppy, CD and USB in one download (ISO)
  • i386-pc
  • i386-efi
  • x86_64-efi

Known bugs

• Non English translations are not completed

Supported Media

• Compact Disk – Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) / DVD
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices
• Floppy (1.98s1 version only)

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NOTE:   The hybrid version should work in most any machine you might have. Please download that version. Non scientific machine names Description Oldie x86   These are very old machines that only have 32-bit processors. Their supported architecture for boot is i386. Oldie 64bit   These are old machines, usually from 2010 year or before. They have 64-bit processors. Their supported architectures for boot are: i386 and x86_64. UEFI 64bit   These are new machines, usually from 2011 year or after. They have 64-bit processors. Their supported architecture for boot is: x86_64-efi. If you enable CSM (also known as legacy boot) support on them they also support i386 and x86_64. UEFI 32bit   These are new machines, usually from 2011 year or after. They are very rare. They have either 64-bit processors or 32-bit processors but somehow boot initially in 32-bit mode. Their supported architecture for boot is: i386-efi. I highly doubt you can enable CSM support on these machines. NOTE:   The hybrid version should work in most any machine you might have. Please download that version.

Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s2-beta1
USB Bootable Images
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Download supergrub2-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-USB.img.zip	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Recommended. Secure boot enabled. Modern UEFI 64-bit and 32-bit systems and also old BIOS systems. Includes additional BOOTISOS partition so that you can carry your loopback.cfg enabled distributions with you.
Download CLASSIC supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-USB.img.zip	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Secure boot non enabled. Modern UEFI 64-bit and 32-bit systems and also old BIOS systems. Includes additional BOOTISOS partition so that you can carry your loopback.cfg enabled distributions with you.
CD-ROM Bootable Images
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Download CLASSIC supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-CD.iso	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Modern UEFI 64-bit and 32-bit systems and also old BIOS systems.
Download supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_pc-CD.iso	i386 and x86_64	Old BIOS (non UEFI) systems only.
Download supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-x86_64_efi-CD.iso	x86_64-efi	Modern UEFI 64-bit systems only.
Download supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_efi-CD.iso	i386-efi	Modern UEFI 32-bit systems only. Also known as ia-32.
Standalone Images
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Download supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-x86_64_efi-STANDALONE.EFI	x86_64-efi	Modern UEFI 64-bit systems only.
Download supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_efi-STANDALONE.EFI	i386-efi	Modern UEFI 32-bit systems only. Also known as ia-32.
Misc
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Source Code (Git repo)	N/A	Let’s you build Super Grub2 Disk on non supported archs.
Download super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1.zip	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Every binary and source code inside a zip file. For offline people.
Everything in a TORRENT	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Every binary and source code inside a torrent file. For offline people.

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About other downloads. These other downloads might be built in the future if anyone complains and helps enough on our mailing list: coreboot, ieee1275, standalone coreboot and standalone ieee1275.

Hashes

In order to check the former downloads you can either check the download directory page for this release or you can check checksums right here:

MD5SUMS

1f60190971d460704ea5876c73f72263  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1.zip
7b563733e79019df8fb73446e0a54c9e  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_efi-STANDALONE.EFI
c255539d0bc79c8515511c517592c258  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-CD.iso
e0477e1124964537016d360e101bb27c  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-x86_64_efi-STANDALONE.EFI
768a960e4ec157932c708b44ed474fd3  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/grubx64-ubuntu-sourcecode.tar.gz
64e3082557741c5bd070560b8a5fcd2c  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/shimia32-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
86eb2b3250f95cfb9481c8a553bdf196  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/shimx64-ubuntu-sourcecode.tar.gz
d2966837be3c915ea1957df9ad0aea1a  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/grubia32-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
6bb178f28ae5450fef34e387e64e1ec6  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/shimx64-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
6be797def5b1fa633454829273b5c90c  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1_source_code.tar.gz
b718a3ea320cbce38f4bc81c7e5b48c3  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/grubx64-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
78aa1e1c0529c4f77323f5ed498df8a2  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-USB.img.zip
1eed944e71781deb7b89babb575a6591  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-USB.img.zip
982d94613eb0405da45787de3b059d1e  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_pc-CD.iso
dc1a1cf83aef3a41e0556f04ab93c96c  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_efi-CD.iso
5f46cc2024d04ced42c6f9853554db9d  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-x86_64_efi-CD.iso

SHA1SUMS

ad38ff62bd1d8d6512f805f520264dc628ddbaa0  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1.zip
58632b7b00b38c2a9faa0a531804a992193ad825  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-x86_64_efi-STANDALONE.EFI
6ab7c7a02e8b4f3a89f3b0b44c9cb8311555ac5d  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-CD.iso
ff0b2b247470bc514ecf4dfd50b35764d8c1fcec  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_pc-CD.iso
a036f8f93d9a11f247d0b8ec210ed9a3fc6b2e23  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-USB.img.zip
5e5a866886e7aff031b28aed3874f9b7d1049647  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/grubx64-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
d1326d96e8bee0bc4832d62bd0113baa256d0ffc  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/grubia32-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
27905ab6b7443de3218a048c5e40377c8a338faa  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/shimx64-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
00eb376ac47496e7c7f061c240c3aa4ba1d1e752  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/shimia32-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
263319b8334b1bf42d14db68683b81657d57e3dd  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/grubx64-ubuntu-sourcecode.tar.gz
468708eaa6251d0b154f66cf21fbb45dc4609fbe  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/shimx64-ubuntu-sourcecode.tar.gz
92332f6411d74e9bf9edf848ebfdb14dab927f11  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1_source_code.tar.gz
b70d809b918249d55daecd3f08b75bf3fa31da2b  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-x86_64_efi-CD.iso
b2f52ed0a8c3b17b011d837d35a41b12b1b4bff7  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_efi-STANDALONE.EFI
94542c576a071ce0b924048cc510dde1cf3fed0e  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_efi-CD.iso
a165fc5be517c5209bdd7304f03e11ac1d3b2591  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-USB.img.zip

SHA256SUMS

75d4b592a724adf4f17c6c8a59fc0d6539fd4a8664aa25c3940aa2b460d8f43d  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1.zip
ccc7d129e740d983c7e365638fd9519adaee43ae9e54e03a053ab26cf5f64aa0  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-USB.img.zip
983c3ab50abd419b26d3fe02622f6d4d084a8fe4f0f8356beeaf0372c974a12f  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_efi-CD.iso
0f4ce9710703dccfdd3ba032dbee43f1e745905c80ee1bc4a3a3f66d9cd32cd8  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_efi-STANDALONE.EFI
51e2ef665fa702d8f4f6e432018bc8de60ab004b094c02e47b24e2aaec2c8f1b  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-x86_64_efi-CD.iso
871fb93cd7db4348dc8d4b7be48df523fa59b744cbccab72616f8d96bc2df906  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-CD.iso
a9af58c720925bf9dff801d93de82329b066e7588b7414ba05e9b5fcf8a3fa47  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/shimia32-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
9230de6c236fa91fd2dadc133f8bc39e79932ff271a6c967dc7c49b8a76048a5  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1_source_code.tar.gz
88b4319da3f55f227c194aecb732cc0a499e5664d4ad446c5add14c51b0ad74f  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/grubia32-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
319ce5b9999170122be2333b2666f9e38499e6f1ce19f1e1a3d69b2575790498  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/shimx64-ubuntu-sourcecode.tar.gz
1dbb513fde010f500d4a11cc308ccd8e8882281b35732882a27e715f242ccb95  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/grubx64-ubuntu-sourcecode.tar.gz
ba499b8c028303ec7f7071141f6ba636bba979f1fde31dfc96170c8557396a5d  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/grubx64-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
b267c872106e65f327dbd2af513e19eeb289762d8686f885a4032ba7667386c3  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/source_code/shimx64-debian-sourcecode.tar.gz
1aa47f7712e5aae68b953648f63fe534ead4658f1e09ea103f64247d44d32dbe  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-i386_pc-CD.iso
93760dcdc09e6fa5406a007af0d10756444a4be96c9ee305a054d7403b2075de  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-x86_64_efi-STANDALONE.EFI
aa05e6c26aaecaec5580cf2f75de82c3acb4c8310fb5d6e4b0e29f29f886bc68  ./super_grub2_disk_2.06s2-beta1/supergrub2-classic-2.06s2-beta1-multiarch-USB.img.zip

Changelog (since former 2.00s2 stable release)

Changes since 2.06s1-beta2 version:

• Added how-to-contribute-to-secureboot.d.md file.
• Make sure to ignore secureboot.d/sha256s directory.
• Docker builders: Make sure to include wget in the images.
• SecureBoot: New download-x64-default script.
• supergrub-mkcommon: Add bash shebang so that automatic highlighting works
• SecureBoot: Download secureboot efis functionality.
• SecureBoot: Make sure to add the SecureBoot source code to the final Super Grub2 Disk source directory.
• SecureBoot: Enable SecureBoot Hybrid USB build.
• SecureBoot: vendor typo
• SecureBoot: Another way of stating that Debian is the default vendor.
• SecureBoot: Added explanation on new description file.
• SecureBoot: Add download script for IA32 Debians SecureBoot files.
• SecureBoot: Add download script for X64 Ubuntus SecureBoot files.
• SecureBoot: Add download script for X64 Ubuntus SecureBoot files. (zstd support)
• SecureBoot: Added zstd binaries for helping to unpack Ubuntu binaries.
• SecureBoot: Make the SecureBoot image bigger than the NonSecureBoot one so that we can have plenty of SecureBoot vendors.
• SecureBoot: New SecureBoot menu
• SecureBoot: Make sure SecureBoot binaries have the correct user owners.
• supergrub-sourcecode: vendor typo.
• SecureBoot: Make sure that secureboot-binaries directory is mapped to the host.
• SecureBoot: Make sure that secureboot.d/sha256sums directory is mapped to the host.
• Make sure to ignore sha256sums directory.
• SecureBoot: Use sha256sums folder to avoid downloading binaries again.
• SecureBoot: Correct secureboot-sha256sum-check call syntax.
• SecureBoot: Correct SecureBoot sha256sum filenames so that they are vendor specific too.
• SecureBoot: Do not show sha256sum output.
• SecureBoot: Make sure to handle wget failure so that sha256sum files are not created.
• SecureBoot: download-x64-ubuntu http typo.
• SecureBoot: Add long descriptions to the Change SecureBoot vendor menu.
• SecureBoot: Make sure that non SecureBoot usb version is now the classic one.
• SecureBoot: Add a SecureBoot enabled cdrom too.
• SecureBoot: Make sure non SecureBoot images have classic string on them.
• SecureBoot: Make that SecureBoot CD is actually SecureBoot.
• SecureBoot: Disable SecureBoot CD build for now.
• SecureBoot: Make sure to generate SecureBoot sourcecode.
• Remove non used line in supergrub-checksums-in-one-file
• Make sure big checksum files have the relative path for their files.
• INSTALL: Make sure that the automatic build uses all of the needed directories.
• DEVELOPMENT, INSTALL reorganisation.
• Remove NEWS file which it is no longer used.
• Rename documentation files into markdown versions.
• README improvements.
• README improvements. (2)
• Make sure that releases and news-releases directory are in the repo.
• Make sure that secureboot-binaries directory is in the repo.
• TEST.md was rewritten.
• TRANSLATION.md was rewritten.
• Some markdown links were fixed.
• SGDBUILDER uid and gid can now be changed.
• INSTALL.md: Expected released files were added.
• DEVELOPMENT.md: Explain how to test Super Grub2 Disk SecureBoot image.
• Bump version to 2.06s2-beta1.

Changes since 2.04s2-beta2 version:

• Update supergrub-mkcommon functions to be able to build gpt based images.
• menulstdetect does not need to use regexp module.
• Make sure to use regexp on autoiso. Fixes #46 .
• Move ‘GRUB Loopback Config’ from isos to the end. It’s easier to read longer iso names now.
• Show when each menu is build with its date. Fixes #44 .
• Make sure cfg files do not have execution bit
• Disk and partitions: Handle empty label properly.
• Merge pull request #49 from mk-pmb/uncontroversial_indentation_fixes
• New Docker build system
• grub-build-config: Switch to Grub 2.06 version.
• April Fools Day prank was removed.
• Docker: Use PREVIOUS_VERSION as the environment variable when the docker is run.
• Docker: Make sure that devices work seamlessly.
• Bump version to 2.06s2-beta1.
• mk-pmb (5):
• Nicer dates/times for “Detect boot methods”
• Marcel’s authorship attribution
• Cleanup: Remove trailing whitespaces
• Cleanup: Fix mixed tab/space indentations
• Cleanup: Normalize indentations to two spaces

Changes since 2.04s1 version:

• Add Korean Translation
• Use LIVEID in each secureboot vendor cfg
• USB hard disk now has an additional partition for ISO files.
• supergrub-mkusb: New script for normal (non secure boot) usb creation
• New filename standard * ${SUPER_GRUB2_DISK_FILE_PREFIX}-${sgrub_version}-${TARGET_PLATFORM}-${TARGET_DEVICE}.iso * Now we specify not only the media where SG2D is supposed to be put (TARGET_DEVICE) but also the architectures which should be boot on (TARGET_PLATFORM). * Makes all of the filenames consistent * Devices are in capital letters like in Debian disks * Old ‘hybrid’ names are now renamed into ‘CD’ so that usb only users choose the ‘USB’ multiarch one. * Filenames are now separated by “-” and no longer by “_” in order to meet other distros filenaming schemes * super_grub2_disk prefix now it’s just: supergrub2: ** That makes super grub2 disk filenames shorter ** It removes confusion because ‘disk’ might imply a cdrom
• Zip USB based images

Changes since 2.02s10 version:

• Use grub-2.04 upstream grub2 tag

Changes since 2.02s9 version:

• ‘Enable all native disk drivers’ option was improved. It no longer crashes.
• Now devices are cached and Super Grub2 Disk is faster
• Modify sg2d_directory and sg2d_dev_name variables so that SG2D is more portable
• Standalone images are no longer broken and show main menu

Changes since 2.02s8 version:

• (Devel) supergrub-release-news helps release team to generate a template for its news. Initial implementation.
• (Devel) Added supergrub-release-changes to help with the release team.
• (Devel) INSTALL: Improved explanation about what release scripts and file outputs.
• Rename ‘(GRUB2 installation (even if mbr is overwritten))’ to: ‘(GRUB2 installation)’
• Use grub-2.02 upstream grub2 tag (Stable version)
• Added Chinese (zh-cn) translation
• Added Finnish translation (Thanks to tavallinenvirtanen7)

Changes since 2.02s7 version:

• Use grub-2.02-rc2 upstream grub2 tag
• Default theme starfield is no longer included. This will make images smaller.
• (Devel) Make sure normal isos and standalone images have hash files without its full path.
• (Devel) File hashes generation has been rewritten to work from the single supergrub-mkcommon generate_filename_hashes function
• (Devel) Now MD5SUMS, SHA1SUMS and SHA256SUMS files are generated as part of the official build.

Changes since 2.02s6 version:

• Updated grub 2.02 build to tag: 2.02~rc1

Changes since 2.02s5 version:

• Added Russian language
• Improved Arch Linux initramfs detection
• Added i386-efi build support
• Added i386-efi to the hybrid iso
• Grub itself is translated when a language is selected
• Added loopback.cfg file (non officially supported)
• (Devel) sgrub.pot updated to latest strings
• (Devel) Added grub-build-004-make-check so that we ensure the build works
• (Devel) Make sure linguas.sh is built when running ‘grub-build-002-clean-and-update’
• (Devel) Updated upstream Super Grub2 Disk repo on documentation
• (Devel) Move core supergrub menu under menus/sgd
• (Devel) Use sg2d_directory as the base super grub2 disk directory variable
• (Devel) New supergrub-sourcecode script that creates current git branch source code tar.gz
• (Devel) New supergrub-all-zip-file script: Makes sure a zip file of everything is built.
• (Devel) supergrub-meta-mkrescue: Build everything into releases directory in order to make source code more clean.
• (Devel) New supergrub-official-release script: Build main files, source code and everything zip file from a single script in order to ease official Super Grub
  2 Disk releases.

Changes since 2.02s4 version:

• Stop trying to chainload devices under UEFI and improve the help people get in the case of a platform mismatch
• (Devel) Properly support source based built grub-mkfont binary.
• New options were added to chainload directly either /ntldr or /bootmgr thanks to ntldr command. They only work in BIOS mode.

Changes since 2.02s3 version:

• Using upstream grub-2.02-beta3 tag as the new base for Super Grub2 Disk’s grub.
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on BCD) Windows Vista, 7, …
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on ntldr) Windows XP, 2000, …

Changes since 2.02s2 beta 1 version:

• (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:

• The upstream Grub crew. I’m subscribed to both help-grub and grub-devel and I admire the work you do there.
• Necrosporus for his insistence on making Super Grub2 Disk smaller.

The person who writes this article is adrian15 .

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 ideas

I think we won’t improve Super Grub2 Disk too much. We will try to stick to official Grub2 stable releases. Unless a new feature that it’s not included in official Grub2 stable release is needed in order to give additional useful functionalities to Super Grub2 Disk.

I have added some scripts to Super Grub2 Disk build so that writing these pieces of news is more automatic and less prone to errors. Check them out in git repo as you will not find them in 2.02s8 source code.

Old idea: I don’t know when but I plan to readapt some scripts from os-prober. That will let us detect more operating systems. Not sure when though. I mean, it’s not something that worries me because it does not affect too many final users. But, well, it’s something new that I hadn’t thought about.

Again, please send us feedback on what you think it’s missing on Super Grub2 Disk.

Rescatux development

I want to focus on Rescatux development on the next months so that we have an stable release before the end of 2017. Now I need to finish adding UEFI features (most finished), fix the scripts that generate Rescatux source code (difficult) and write much documentation.

(adrian15 speaking)

Getting help on using Super Grub2 Disk

• Howtos
• Documentation / Wiki
• Chat
• Forum
• Mailing list

More information about Super Grub2 Disk

• Download stable Super Grub2 Disk
• Download beta Super Grub2 Disk
• Download latest (stable or beta) Super Grub2 Disk
• Difference between Super Grub Disk and Super Grub2 Disk

Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s1-beta2 is here.

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 beta release

This new release removes the April Fools Day prank, adds a new Docker build system and has many other minimal improvements. Finally this new release is based on Grub 2.06 instead of the older Grub 2.04

 

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.

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
  • Russian
  • Finnish / Suomi
  • Chinese

• Detect and show boot methods option to detect most Operating Systems

• 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

    

  • 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 10
  • Windows Vista/7/8/8.1
  • Windows NT/2000/XP
  • Windows 98/ME
  • MS-DOS
  • FreeDOS
• GNU/Linux
  • Direct Kernel with autodetected initrd

    

    • 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

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, i386-efi, x86_64-efi) (ISO)
• EFI x86_64 standalone version (EFI)
• EFI i386 standalone version (EFI)
• Additional Floppy, CD and USB in one download (ISO)
  • i386-pc
  • i386-efi
  • x86_64-efi

Known bugs

• Non English translations are not completed

Supported Media

• Compact Disk – Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) / DVD
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices
• Floppy (1.98s1 version only)

Downloads

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NOTE:   The hybrid version should work in most any machine you might have. Please download that version. Non scientific machine names Description Oldie x86   These are very old machines that only have 32-bit processors. Their supported architecture for boot is i386. Oldie 64bit   These are old machines, usually from 2010 year or before. They have 64-bit processors. Their supported architectures for boot are: i386 and x86_64. UEFI 64bit   These are new machines, usually from 2011 year or after. They have 64-bit processors. Their supported architecture for boot is: x86_64-efi. If you enable CSM (also known as legacy boot) support on them they also support i386 and x86_64. UEFI 32bit   These are new machines, usually from 2011 year or after. They are very rare. They have either 64-bit processors or 32-bit processors but somehow boot initially in 32-bit mode. Their supported architecture for boot is: i386-efi. I highly doubt you can enable CSM support on these machines. NOTE:   The hybrid version should work in most any machine you might have. Please download that version.

Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s1-beta2
USB Bootable Images
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Download supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-multiarch-USB.img.zip	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Recommended. Modern UEFI 64-bit and 32-bit systems and also old BIOS systems. Includes additional BOOTISOS so that you can carry your loopback.cfg enabled distributions with you.
CD-ROM Bootable Images
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Download supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-multiarch-CD.iso	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Modern UEFI 64-bit and 32-bit systems and also old BIOS systems.
Download supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_pc-CD.iso	i386 and x86_64	Old BIOS (non UEFI) systems only.
Download supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-x86_64_efi-CD.iso	x86_64-efi	Modern UEFI 64-bit systems only.
Download supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_efi-CD.iso	i386-efi	Modern UEFI 32-bit systems only. Also known as ia-32.
Standalone Images
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Download supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-x86_64_efi-STANDALONE.EFI	x86_64-efi	Modern UEFI 64-bit systems only.
Download supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_efi-STANDALONE.EFI	i386-efi	Modern UEFI 32-bit systems only. Also known as ia-32.
Misc
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Source Code (Git repo)	N/A	Let’s you build Super Grub2 Disk on non supported archs.
Download super_grub2_disk_2.06s1-beta2.zip	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Every binary and source code inside a zip file. For offline people.

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About other downloads. These other downloads might be built in the future if anyone complains and helps enough on our mailing list: coreboot, ieee1275, standalone coreboot and standalone ieee1275.

Hashes

In order to check the former downloads you can either check the download directory page for this release or you can check checksums right here:

MD5SUMS

6ea377ac313aa13470a4015b141cecae  super_grub2_disk_2.06s1-beta2.zip
36c5e2f8dfc778b0bfa188f5de8bf2bf  super_grub2_disk_2.06s1-beta2_source_code.tar.gz
f47c6f3de5c56bd192e582ab30ca9632  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_efi-CD.iso
39fc068b1d7582f01e114875e804451d  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_efi-STANDALONE.EFI
e6309a3e70da1027bfea1271b1056425  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_pc-CD.iso
7e056911818ec7a712ab23f599976ef4  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-multiarch-CD.iso
8c724336d70c26fa7c4eb225c38707c0  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-multiarch-USB.img.zip
6d1d158278460362dee656f64208385d  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-x86_64_efi-CD.iso
31af5e0a3008e2be5710ed05b57a59bd  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-x86_64_efi-STANDALONE.EFI

SHA1SUMS

992ab3416f0c09a062c99d346f1202f4a6b8dd8e  super_grub2_disk_2.06s1-beta2.zip
ce2f4bfc74defee70c1478b8610538d391604611  super_grub2_disk_2.06s1-beta2_source_code.tar.gz
3d31523553e9e0db7b47c41be5113cdeab8f11e7  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_efi-CD.iso
999945ddf429cb35fb9ba3c2f540080073edd8d9  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_efi-STANDALONE.EFI
9f187a11b2231797fc3d50d6ef3fa4796f18d165  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_pc-CD.iso
1cf81a67a4aa5d11c1386d2b0cbbd83c16a9a86e  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-multiarch-CD.iso
80929b55ce8adffd02a9c519bb61607fb4b0f38e  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-multiarch-USB.img.zip
7f56ce9e6ccdc4902b8484551cc66490d3f5e20f  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-x86_64_efi-CD.iso
c0b3d0ae77cf26e4697f107a04ad86e6693b78e7  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-x86_64_efi-STANDALONE.EFI

SHA256SUMS

4e446ce36587040acc92ba3db4b51504aa758fe4ea26fd8b63196275f6b67d74  super_grub2_disk_2.06s1-beta2.zip
9042b07f67f762ff10b179f59d84928ee372925241c366b635961b05ff904c2d  super_grub2_disk_2.06s1-beta2_source_code.tar.gz
2b9e20d16fde5d111edb9d6f55e6bf15b93295f3017c71af27ba866ecfa98739  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_efi-CD.iso
f55a1f90c0eb77c3e5ba83b0b3f30a9bdd627d08ae420b148ce3fa00c0e832b0  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_efi-STANDALONE.EFI
12e76081a61eae547668edb86d92779d8c75250314546f21471c58f433ce4544  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-i386_pc-CD.iso
924623a1f3730ef98ffd0542174177c7510d18e1064c54c8119a904fb0a101b4  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-multiarch-CD.iso
b891f681c7d86f6f1f58c2790a48334f5d760870ef7b8689adf4d87c6176cd96  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-multiarch-USB.img.zip
31749cf3e0664592974a9691b6204652aad59d89d65f0fd2b316350412ff47e4  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-x86_64_efi-CD.iso
32c264066c86451d52de1b79c40338bbf2e95bf6dfa9b1bc39d527306ff1253d  supergrub2-2.06s1-beta2-x86_64_efi-STANDALONE.EFI

Changelog (since former 2.00s2 stable release)

Changes since 2.04s2-beta2 version:

• Update supergrub-mkcommon functions to be able to build gpt based images.
• menulstdetect does not need to use regexp module.
• Make sure to use regexp on autoiso. Fixes #46 .
• Move ‘GRUB Loopback Config’ from isos to the end. It’s easier to read longer iso names now.
• Show when each menu is build with its date. Fixes #44 .
• Make sure cfg files do not have execution bit
• Disk and partitions: Handle empty label properly.
• Merge pull request #49 from mk-pmb/uncontroversial_indentation_fixes
• New Docker build system
• grub-build-config: Switch to Grub 2.06 version.
• April Fools Day prank was removed.
• Docker: Use PREVIOUS_VERSION as the environment variable when the docker is run.
• Docker: Make sure that devices work seamlessly.
• Bump version to 2.06s1-beta2.
• mk-pmb (5):
• Nicer dates/times for “Detect boot methods”
• Marcel’s authorship attribution
• Cleanup: Remove trailing whitespaces
• Cleanup: Fix mixed tab/space indentations
• Cleanup: Normalize indentations to two spaces

Changes since 2.04s1 version:

• Add Korean Translation
• Use LIVEID in each secureboot vendor cfg
• USB hard disk now has an additional partition for ISO files.
• supergrub-mkusb: New script for normal (non secure boot) usb creation
• New filename standard * ${SUPER_GRUB2_DISK_FILE_PREFIX}-${sgrub_version}-${TARGET_PLATFORM}-${TARGET_DEVICE}.iso * Now we specify not only the media where SG2D is supposed to be put (TARGET_DEVICE) but also the architectures which should be boot on (TARGET_PLATFORM). * Makes all of the filenames consistent * Devices are in capital letters like in Debian disks * Old ‘hybrid’ names are now renamed into ‘CD’ so that usb only users choose the ‘USB’ multiarch one. * Filenames are now separated by “-” and no longer by “_” in order to meet other distros filenaming schemes * super_grub2_disk prefix now it’s just: supergrub2: ** That makes super grub2 disk filenames shorter ** It removes confusion because ‘disk’ might imply a cdrom
• Zip USB based images

Changes since 2.02s10 version:

• Use grub-2.04 upstream grub2 tag

Changes since 2.02s9 version:

• ‘Enable all native disk drivers’ option was improved. It no longer crashes.
• Now devices are cached and Super Grub2 Disk is faster
• Modify sg2d_directory and sg2d_dev_name variables so that SG2D is more portable
• Standalone images are no longer broken and show main menu

Changes since 2.02s8 version:

• (Devel) supergrub-release-news helps release team to generate a template for its news. Initial implementation.
• (Devel) Added supergrub-release-changes to help with the release team.
• (Devel) INSTALL: Improved explanation about what release scripts and file outputs.
• Rename ‘(GRUB2 installation (even if mbr is overwritten))’ to: ‘(GRUB2 installation)’
• Use grub-2.02 upstream grub2 tag (Stable version)
• Added Chinese (zh-cn) translation
• Added Finnish translation (Thanks to tavallinenvirtanen7)

Changes since 2.02s7 version:

• Use grub-2.02-rc2 upstream grub2 tag
• Default theme starfield is no longer included. This will make images smaller.
• (Devel) Make sure normal isos and standalone images have hash files without its full path.
• (Devel) File hashes generation has been rewritten to work from the single supergrub-mkcommon generate_filename_hashes function
• (Devel) Now MD5SUMS, SHA1SUMS and SHA256SUMS files are generated as part of the official build.

Changes since 2.02s6 version:

• Updated grub 2.02 build to tag: 2.02~rc1

Changes since 2.02s5 version:

• Added Russian language
• Improved Arch Linux initramfs detection
• Added i386-efi build support
• Added i386-efi to the hybrid iso
• Grub itself is translated when a language is selected
• Added loopback.cfg file (non officially supported)
• (Devel) sgrub.pot updated to latest strings
• (Devel) Added grub-build-004-make-check so that we ensure the build works
• (Devel) Make sure linguas.sh is built when running ‘grub-build-002-clean-and-update’
• (Devel) Updated upstream Super Grub2 Disk repo on documentation
• (Devel) Move core supergrub menu under menus/sgd
• (Devel) Use sg2d_directory as the base super grub2 disk directory variable
• (Devel) New supergrub-sourcecode script that creates current git branch source code tar.gz
• (Devel) New supergrub-all-zip-file script: Makes sure a zip file of everything is built.
• (Devel) supergrub-meta-mkrescue: Build everything into releases directory in order to make source code more clean.
• (Devel) New supergrub-official-release script: Build main files, source code and everything zip file from a single script in order to ease official Super Grub
  2 Disk releases.

Changes since 2.02s4 version:

• Stop trying to chainload devices under UEFI and improve the help people get in the case of a platform mismatch
• (Devel) Properly support source based built grub-mkfont binary.
• New options were added to chainload directly either /ntldr or /bootmgr thanks to ntldr command. They only work in BIOS mode.

Changes since 2.02s3 version:

• Using upstream grub-2.02-beta3 tag as the new base for Super Grub2 Disk’s grub.
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on BCD) Windows Vista, 7, …
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on ntldr) Windows XP, 2000, …

Changes since 2.02s2 beta 1 version:

• (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:

• The upstream Grub crew. I’m subscribed to both help-grub and grub-devel and I admire the work you do there.
• Necrosporus for his insistence on making Super Grub2 Disk smaller.

The person who writes this article is adrian15 .

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 ideas

I think we won’t improve Super Grub2 Disk too much. We will try to stick to official Grub2 stable releases. Unless a new feature that it’s not included in official Grub2 stable release is needed in order to give additional useful functionalities to Super Grub2 Disk.

I have added some scripts to Super Grub2 Disk build so that writing these pieces of news is more automatic and less prone to errors. Check them out in git repo as you will not find them in 2.02s8 source code.

Old idea: I don’t know when but I plan to readapt some scripts from os-prober. That will let us detect more operating systems. Not sure when though. I mean, it’s not something that worries me because it does not affect too many final users. But, well, it’s something new that I hadn’t thought about.

Again, please send us feedback on what you think it’s missing on Super Grub2 Disk.

Rescatux development

I want to focus on Rescatux development on the next months so that we have an stable release before the end of 2017. Now I need to finish adding UEFI features (most finished), fix the scripts that generate Rescatux source code (difficult) and write much documentation.

(adrian15 speaking)

Getting help on using Super Grub2 Disk

• Howtos
• Documentation / Wiki
• Chat
• Forum
• Mailing list

More information about Super Grub2 Disk

• • Download stable Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download beta Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download latest (stable or beta) Super Grub2 Disk
  • Difference between Super Grub Disk and Super Grub2 Disk

Super Grub2 Disk 2.04s2-beta2 is here.

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 beta release

This new release features a new usb based image which lets you carry your loopback.cfg enabled distros in a second partition. Power users will be glad to learn that you can edit any Super Grub2 Disk file and make bigger the ISOs partition. Filenaming scheme for released files was improved. Finally Korean translation was added.

 

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.

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
  • Russian
  • Finnish / Suomi
  • Chinese

• Detect and show boot methods option to detect most Operating Systems

• 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

    

  • 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 10
  • Windows Vista/7/8/8.1
  • Windows NT/2000/XP
  • Windows 98/ME
  • MS-DOS
  • FreeDOS
• GNU/Linux
  • Direct Kernel with autodetected initrd

    

    • 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

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, i386-efi, x86_64-efi) (ISO)
• EFI x86_64 standalone version (EFI)
• EFI i386 standalone version (EFI)
• Additional Floppy, CD and USB in one download (ISO)
  • i386-pc
  • i386-efi
  • x86_64-efi

Known bugs

• Non English translations are not completed

Supported Media

• Compact Disk – Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) / DVD
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices
• Floppy (1.98s1 version only)

Downloads

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NOTE:   The hybrid version should work in most any machine you might have. Please download that version. Non scientific machine names Description Oldie x86   These are very old machines that only have 32-bit processors. Their supported architecture for boot is i386. Oldie 64bit   These are old machines, usually from 2010 year or before. They have 64-bit processors. Their supported architectures for boot are: i386 and x86_64. UEFI 64bit   These are new machines, usually from 2011 year or after. They have 64-bit processors. Their supported architecture for boot is: x86_64-efi. If you enable CSM (also known as legacy boot) support on them they also support i386 and x86_64. UEFI 32bit   These are new machines, usually from 2011 year or after. They are very rare. They have either 64-bit processors or 32-bit processors but somehow boot initially in 32-bit mode. Their supported architecture for boot is: i386-efi. I highly doubt you can enable CSM support on these machines. NOTE:   The hybrid version should work in most any machine you might have. Please download that version.

Super Grub2 Disk 2.04s2-beta2
USB Bootable Images
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Download supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-multiarch-USB.img.zip	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Recommended. Modern UEFI 64-bit and 32-bit systems and also old BIOS systems. Includes additional BOOTISOS so that you can carry your loopback.cfg enabled distributions with you.
CD-ROM Bootable Images
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Download supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-multiarch-CD.iso	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Modern UEFI 64-bit and 32-bit systems and also old BIOS systems.
Download supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-i386_pc-CD.iso	i386 and x86_64	Old BIOS (non UEFI) systems only.
Download supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-x86_64_efi-CD.iso	x86_64-efi	Modern UEFI 64-bit systems only.
Download supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-i386_efi-CD.iso	i386-efi	Modern UEFI 32-bit systems only. Also known as ia-32.
Standalone Images
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Download supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-x86_64_efi-STANDALONE.EFI	x86_64-efi	Modern UEFI 64-bit systems only.
Download supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-i386_efi-STANDALONE.EFI	i386-efi	Modern UEFI 32-bit systems only. Also known as ia-32.
Misc
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Source Code (Git repo)	N/A	Let’s you build Super Grub2 Disk on non supported archs.
Download super_grub2_disk_2.04s2-beta2.zip	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Every binary and source code inside a zip file. For offline people.
Everything in a TORRENT	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Every binary and source code inside a torrent file. For offline people.

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About other downloads. These other downloads might be built in the future if anyone complains and helps enough on our mailing list: coreboot, ieee1275, standalone coreboot and standalone ieee1275.

Hashes

In order to check the former downloads you can either check the download directory page for this release or you can check checksums right here:

MD5SUMS

8ea03a225a239837fdc77dc50e2e3396  super_grub2_disk_2.04s2-beta2.zip
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1bf7fa5858e5abf805ab5a18b7b29780  supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-i386_efi-STANDALONE.EFI
6220cea1205ea3acd5417b5c0be866ee  supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-i386_pc-CD.iso
968826f225bd0645a2d893e274c24175  supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-multiarch-CD.iso
9cf23233cf70afad842d7ee9c29e46fb  supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-multiarch-USB.img.zip
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cd909f60c57fdb87a1f0f9c7e7ce27ac  supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-x86_64_efi-STANDALONE.EFI

SHA1SUMS

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3385be38de87b5012bd9eed140d98e9f3a55f2d7  supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-x86_64_efi-STANDALONE.EFI

SHA256SUMS

263cc337b1e34bc958dcdd9a4b9748d05cfa9ee5f6e26c2cc153b16a01a1b8b1  super_grub2_disk_2.04s2-beta2.zip
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56e51549e88f09d07562b221b51ad2a88d1ccdaba78f5c803d7b70f44777f3f1  supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-multiarch-USB.img.zip
9903a5bbfd2baf7a11c40324f49a3821be2e34bb8316095c0055bce37295d20e  supergrub2-2.04s2-beta2-x86_64_efi-CD.iso
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Changelog (since former 2.00s2 stable release)

Changes since 2.04s1 version:

• Add Korean Translation
• Use LIVEID in each secureboot vendor cfg
• USB hard disk now has an additional partition for ISO files.
• supergrub-mkusb: New script for normal (non secure boot) usb creation
• New filename standard * ${SUPER_GRUB2_DISK_FILE_PREFIX}-${sgrub_version}-${TARGET_PLATFORM}-${TARGET_DEVICE}.iso * Now we specify not only the media where SG2D is supposed to be put (TARGET_DEVICE) but also the architectures which should be boot on (TARGET_PLATFORM). * Makes all of the filenames consistent * Devices are in capital letters like in Debian disks * Old ‘hybrid’ names are now renamed into ‘CD’ so that usb only users choose the ‘USB’ multiarch one. * Filenames are now separated by “-” and no longer by “_” in order to meet other distros filenaming schemes * super_grub2_disk prefix now it’s just: supergrub2: ** That makes super grub2 disk filenames shorter ** It removes confusion because ‘disk’ might imply a cdrom
• Zip USB based images

Changes since 2.02s10 version:

• Use grub-2.04 upstream grub2 tag

Changes since 2.02s9 version:

• ‘Enable all native disk drivers’ option was improved. It no longer crashes.
• Now devices are cached and Super Grub2 Disk is faster
• Modify sg2d_directory and sg2d_dev_name variables so that SG2D is more portable
• Standalone images are no longer broken and show main menu

Changes since 2.02s8 version:

• (Devel) supergrub-release-news helps release team to generate a template for its news. Initial implementation.
• (Devel) Added supergrub-release-changes to help with the release team.
• (Devel) INSTALL: Improved explanation about what release scripts and file outputs.
• Rename ‘(GRUB2 installation (even if mbr is overwritten))’ to: ‘(GRUB2 installation)’
• Use grub-2.02 upstream grub2 tag (Stable version)
• Added Chinese (zh-cn) translation
• Added Finnish translation (Thanks to tavallinenvirtanen7)

Changes since 2.02s7 version:

• Use grub-2.02-rc2 upstream grub2 tag
• Default theme starfield is no longer included. This will make images smaller.
• (Devel) Make sure normal isos and standalone images have hash files without its full path.
• (Devel) File hashes generation has been rewritten to work from the single supergrub-mkcommon generate_filename_hashes function
• (Devel) Now MD5SUMS, SHA1SUMS and SHA256SUMS files are generated as part of the official build.

Changes since 2.02s6 version:

• Updated grub 2.02 build to tag: 2.02~rc1

Changes since 2.02s5 version:

• Added Russian language
• Improved Arch Linux initramfs detection
• Added i386-efi build support
• Added i386-efi to the hybrid iso
• Grub itself is translated when a language is selected
• Added loopback.cfg file (non officially supported)
• (Devel) sgrub.pot updated to latest strings
• (Devel) Added grub-build-004-make-check so that we ensure the build works
• (Devel) Make sure linguas.sh is built when running ‘grub-build-002-clean-and-update’
• (Devel) Updated upstream Super Grub2 Disk repo on documentation
• (Devel) Move core supergrub menu under menus/sgd
• (Devel) Use sg2d_directory as the base super grub2 disk directory variable
• (Devel) New supergrub-sourcecode script that creates current git branch source code tar.gz
• (Devel) New supergrub-all-zip-file script: Makes sure a zip file of everything is built.
• (Devel) supergrub-meta-mkrescue: Build everything into releases directory in order to make source code more clean.
• (Devel) New supergrub-official-release script: Build main files, source code and everything zip file from a single script in order to ease official Super Grub
  2 Disk releases.

Changes since 2.02s4 version:

• Stop trying to chainload devices under UEFI and improve the help people get in the case of a platform mismatch
• (Devel) Properly support source based built grub-mkfont binary.
• New options were added to chainload directly either /ntldr or /bootmgr thanks to ntldr command. They only work in BIOS mode.

Changes since 2.02s3 version:

• Using upstream grub-2.02-beta3 tag as the new base for Super Grub2 Disk’s grub.
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on BCD) Windows Vista, 7, …
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on ntldr) Windows XP, 2000, …

Changes since 2.02s2 beta 1 version:

• (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:

• The upstream Grub crew. I’m subscribed to both help-grub and grub-devel and I admire the work you do there.
• Necrosporus for his insistence on making Super Grub2 Disk smaller.

The person who writes this article is adrian15 .

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 ideas

I think we won’t improve Super Grub2 Disk too much. We will try to stick to official Grub2 stable releases. Unless a new feature that it’s not included in official Grub2 stable release is needed in order to give additional useful functionalities to Super Grub2 Disk.

I have added some scripts to Super Grub2 Disk build so that writing these pieces of news is more automatic and less prone to errors. Check them out in git repo as you will not find them in 2.02s8 source code.

Old idea: I don’t know when but I plan to readapt some scripts from os-prober. That will let us detect more operating systems. Not sure when though. I mean, it’s not something that worries me because it does not affect too many final users. But, well, it’s something new that I hadn’t thought about.

Again, please send us feedback on what you think it’s missing on Super Grub2 Disk.

Rescatux development

I want to focus on Rescatux development on the next months so that we have an stable release before the end of 2017. Now I need to finish adding UEFI features (most finished), fix the scripts that generate Rescatux source code (difficult) and write much documentation.

(adrian15 speaking)

Getting help on using Super Grub2 Disk

• Howtos
• Documentation / Wiki
• Chat
• Forum
• Mailing list

More information about Super Grub2 Disk

• • Download stable Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download beta Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download latest (stable or beta) Super Grub2 Disk
  • Difference between Super Grub Disk and Super Grub2 Disk

Super Grub2 Disk 2.04s1 is here.

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

This new release features new upstream grub 2.04. Some of the grub 2.04 features which might be or might not be reflected on the SG2D UI are:

• Support for multiple early initrd images
• Support for the F2FS file-system
• A verifier framework
• RISC-V support
• UEFI Secure Boot shim support
• Btrfs Zstd improvements
• Btrfs RAID5/RAID6 support
• Xen PVH support
• UEFI TPM 1.2/2.0 support

 

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.

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
  • Russian
  • Finnish / Suomi
  • Chinese

• Detect and show boot methods option to detect most Operating Systems

• 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

    

  • 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 10
  • Windows Vista/7/8/8.1
  • Windows NT/2000/XP
  • Windows 98/ME
  • MS-DOS
  • FreeDOS
• GNU/Linux
  • Direct Kernel with autodetected initrd

    

    • 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

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, i386-efi, x86_64-efi) (ISO)
• EFI x86_64 standalone version (EFI)
• EFI i386 standalone version (EFI)
• Additional Floppy, CD and USB in one download (ISO)
  • i386-pc
  • i386-efi
  • x86_64-efi

Known bugs

• Non English translations are not completed

Supported Media

• Compact Disk – Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) / DVD
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices
• Floppy (1.98s1 version only)

Downloads

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NOTE:   The hybrid version should work in most any machine you might have. Please download that version. Non scientific machine names Description Oldie x86   These are very old machines that only have 32-bit processors. Their supported architecture for boot is i386. Oldie 64bit   These are old machines, usually from 2010 year or before. They have 64-bit processors. Their supported architectures for boot are: i386 and x86_64. UEFI 64bit   These are new machines, usually from 2011 year or after. They have 64-bit processors. Their supported architecture for boot is: x86_64-efi. If you enable CSM (also known as legacy boot) support on them they also support i386 and x86_64. UEFI 32bit   These are new machines, usually from 2011 year or after. They are very rare. They have either 64-bit processors or 32-bit processors but somehow boot initially in 32-bit mode. Their supported architecture for boot is: i386-efi. I highly doubt you can enable CSM support on these machines. NOTE:   The hybrid version should work in most any machine you might have. Please download that version.

Super Grub2 Disk 2.04s1
CD/USB/HD Bootable Images
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Download super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.04s1.iso	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Ideal for everyone. Recommended.
Download super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.04s1.iso	i386 and x86_64	Old BIOS (non UEFI) systems only.
Download super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.04s1.iso	x86_64-efi	Modern UEFI 64-bit systems only.
Download super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.04s1.iso	i386-efi	Modern UEFI 32-bit systems only. Also known as ia-32.
Standalone Images
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Download super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.04s1.EFI	x86_64-efi	Modern UEFI 64-bit systems only.
Download super_grub2_disk_standalone_i386_efi_2.04s1.EFI	i386-efi	Modern UEFI 32-bit systems only. Also known as ia-32.
Misc
Download	Supported archs	Notes
Source Code (Git repo)	N/A	Let’s you build Super Grub2 Disk on non supported archs.
Download super_grub2_disk_2.04s1.zip	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Every binary and source code inside a zip file. For offline people.
Everything in a TORRENT	i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi	Every binary and source code inside a torrent file. For offline people.

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About other downloads. These other downloads might be built in the future if anyone complains and helps enough on our mailing list: coreboot, ieee1275, standalone coreboot and standalone ieee1275.

Hashes

In order to check the former downloads you can either check the download directory page for this release or you can check checksums right here:

MD5SUMS

3cd636aaa5418b7bfc81cde36098e153  super_grub2_disk_2.04s1_source_code.tar.gz
7547168a534cca7cea819349f886e492  super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.04s1.iso
dc15f00af0ecb13859ae88e69edfcfa8  super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.04s1.iso
d5963058f2cb8693ba6a17c9d913bdae  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.04s1.iso
b3a9778fd588334ed1ce0b4ae4f1e99c  super_grub2_disk_standalone_i386_efi_2.04s1.EFI
e8f7873d16849c7257b3ea2da04f152f  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.04s1.EFI
ecf00e7a4501bbae14452831f1f0cc6f  super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.04s1.iso
7e69801ecc6b73ccd2b563e58cf6e84d  super_grub2_disk_2.04s1.zip

SHA1SUMS

95692272ae7c290154bb3a774080d826aec45df3  super_grub2_disk_2.04s1_source_code.tar.gz
a7880034e1c3867d1b696b9ffb55451407f04175  super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.04s1.iso
afc9a4a1d8945df963c46a6fa98c61d50f86dbfc  super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.04s1.iso
d4cba6c9778480283ce54df1c3e5aabbe3caff61  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.04s1.iso
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bdacf9de3af569188f32ae35cad65bf9dd9a163a  super_grub2_disk_2.04s1.zip

SHA256SUMS

d471b8bc16ecf70cf715506463e07afe9e4cd3b7127f7d1ce6e038f1dd2e4d59  super_grub2_disk_2.04s1_source_code.tar.gz
a72eddad240c072105847a404e2af0541ee39d61919eb712242b3797e953f3b6  super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.04s1.iso
c72a7d32fea825c970a8d2941e725932ddef717727e3348a700e453ca5313b26  super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.04s1.iso
1c45a79c43904a3cc53214fa6ba23a0dc42e4960fa10433922d6a8995bdf43a3  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.04s1.iso
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9adf5400715f10479d760ba7cc18515f5493341a814507c1e2797cd2394441da  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.04s1.EFI
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Changelog (since former 2.00s2 stable release)

Changes since 2.02s10 version:

• Use grub-2.04 upstream grub2 tag

Changes since 2.02s9 version:

• ‘Enable all native disk drivers’ option was improved. It no longer crashes.
• Now devices are cached and Super Grub2 Disk is faster
• Modify sg2d_directory and sg2d_dev_name variables so that SG2D is more portable
• Standalone images are no longer broken and show main menu

Changes since 2.02s8 version:

• (Devel) supergrub-release-news helps release team to generate a template for its news. Initial implementation.
• (Devel) Added supergrub-release-changes to help with the release team.
• (Devel) INSTALL: Improved explanation about what release scripts and file outputs.
• Rename ‘(GRUB2 installation (even if mbr is overwritten))’ to: ‘(GRUB2 installation)’
• Use grub-2.02 upstream grub2 tag (Stable version)
• Added Chinese (zh-cn) translation
• Added Finnish translation (Thanks to tavallinenvirtanen7)

Changes since 2.02s7 version:

• Use grub-2.02-rc2 upstream grub2 tag
• Default theme starfield is no longer included. This will make images smaller.
• (Devel) Make sure normal isos and standalone images have hash files without its full path.
• (Devel) File hashes generation has been rewritten to work from the single supergrub-mkcommon generate_filename_hashes function
• (Devel) Now MD5SUMS, SHA1SUMS and SHA256SUMS files are generated as part of the official build.

Changes since 2.02s6 version:

• Updated grub 2.02 build to tag: 2.02~rc1

Changes since 2.02s5 version:

• Added Russian language
• Improved Arch Linux initramfs detection
• Added i386-efi build support
• Added i386-efi to the hybrid iso
• Grub itself is translated when a language is selected
• Added loopback.cfg file (non officially supported)
• (Devel) sgrub.pot updated to latest strings
• (Devel) Added grub-build-004-make-check so that we ensure the build works
• (Devel) Make sure linguas.sh is built when running ‘grub-build-002-clean-and-update’
• (Devel) Updated upstream Super Grub2 Disk repo on documentation
• (Devel) Move core supergrub menu under menus/sgd
• (Devel) Use sg2d_directory as the base super grub2 disk directory variable
• (Devel) New supergrub-sourcecode script that creates current git branch source code tar.gz
• (Devel) New supergrub-all-zip-file script: Makes sure a zip file of everything is built.
• (Devel) supergrub-meta-mkrescue: Build everything into releases directory in order to make source code more clean.
• (Devel) New supergrub-official-release script: Build main files, source code and everything zip file from a single script in order to ease official Super Grub
  2 Disk releases.

Changes since 2.02s4 version:

• Stop trying to chainload devices under UEFI and improve the help people get in the case of a platform mismatch
• (Devel) Properly support source based built grub-mkfont binary.
• New options were added to chainload directly either /ntldr or /bootmgr thanks to ntldr command. They only work in BIOS mode.

Changes since 2.02s3 version:

• Using upstream grub-2.02-beta3 tag as the new base for Super Grub2 Disk’s grub.
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on BCD) Windows Vista, 7, …
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on ntldr) Windows XP, 2000, …

Changes since 2.02s2 beta 1 version:

• (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:

• The upstream Grub crew. I’m subscribed to both help-grub and grub-devel and I admire the work you do there.
• Necrosporus for his insistence on making Super Grub2 Disk smaller.

The person who writes this article is adrian15 .

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 ideas

I think we won’t improve Super Grub2 Disk too much. We will try to stick to official Grub2 stable releases. Unless a new feature that it’s not included in official Grub2 stable release is needed in order to give additional useful functionalities to Super Grub2 Disk.

I have added some scripts to Super Grub2 Disk build so that writing these pieces of news is more automatic and less prone to errors. Check them out in git repo as you will not find them in 2.02s8 source code.

Old idea: I don’t know when but I plan to readapt some scripts from os-prober. That will let us detect more operating systems. Not sure when though. I mean, it’s not something that worries me because it does not affect too many final users. But, well, it’s something new that I hadn’t thought about.

Again, please send us feedback on what you think it’s missing on Super Grub2 Disk.

Rescatux development

I want to focus on Rescatux development on the next months so that we have an stable release before the end of 2017. Now I need to finish adding UEFI features (most finished), fix the scripts that generate Rescatux source code (difficult) and write much documentation.

(adrian15 speaking)

Getting help on using Super Grub2 Disk

• Howtos
• Documentation / Wiki
• Chat
• Forum
• Mailing list

More information about Super Grub2 Disk

• • Download stable Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download beta Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download latest (stable or beta) Super Grub2 Disk
  • Difference between Super Grub Disk and Super Grub2 Disk

Super Grub2 Disk 2.04rc1s1 beta 4 is here.

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 beta release

This new releases features new upstream grub 2.04rc1 which includes

• Support for multiple early initrd images
• Support for the F2FS file-system
• A verifier framework
• RISC-V support
• UEFI Secure Boot shim support
• Btrfs Zstd improvements
• Btrfs RAID5/RAID6 support
• Xen PVH support
• UEFI TPM 1.2/2.0 support

 

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.

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
  • Russian
  • Finnish / Suomi
  • Chinese

• Detect and show boot methods option to detect most Operating Systems

• 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

    

  • 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 10
  • Windows Vista/7/8/8.1
  • Windows NT/2000/XP
  • Windows 98/ME
  • MS-DOS
  • FreeDOS
• GNU/Linux
  • Direct Kernel with autodetected initrd

    

    • 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

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, i386-efi, x86_64-efi) (ISO)
• EFI x86_64 standalone version (EFI)
• EFI i386 standalone version (EFI)
• Additional Floppy, CD and USB in one download (ISO)
  • i386-pc
  • i386-efi
  • x86_64-efi

Known bugs

• Non English translations are not completed

Supported Media

• Compact Disk – Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) / DVD
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices
• Floppy (1.98s1 version only)

Downloads

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Recommended download (Floppy, CD & USB in one) (Valid for i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi):

• Super Grub2 Disk (CD & USB in one) 2.04rc1s1-beta4 (ISO)[Mirror #1]

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EFI x86_64 standalone version:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Standalone ; x86_64-efi) 2.04rc1s1-beta4 (EFI)[Mirror #1]

EFI i386 standalone version:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Standalone ; i386-efi) 2.04rc1s1-beta4 (EFI)[Mirror #1]

CD & USB in one downloads:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.04rc1s1-beta4 [i386-pc] (ISO)[Mirror #1]
• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.04rc1s1-beta4 [x86_64-efi] (ISO)[Mirror #1]
• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.04rc1s1-beta4 [i386-efi] (ISO)[Mirror #1]

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. bfree has helped on this matter and with his help we might have those builds in next releases. If you want such builds drop a mail in the mailing list so that we aware of that need.  

Source code:

• Super Grub2 Disk 2.04rc1s1-beta4 Source Code (Git repo)[Mirror #1]

Everything (All binary releases and source code):

• Super Grub2 Disk 2.04rc1s1-beta4 Everything (ZIP)(MD5)[Mirror #1]
• Super Grub2 Disk 2.04rc1s1-beta4 Everything TORRENT

Hashes

In order to check the former downloads you can either check the download directory page for this release or you can check checksums right here:

MD5SUMS

e2d3fc9c1097a04301851e3a28471cb9  super_grub2_disk_2.04rc1s1-beta4_source_code.tar.gz
e0a9b2c6cda6c98cec6e25efb48f008d  super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
18efd15d8cd320ec3059387ccfd91154  super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
df9e3da46c365586547053a6505e0492  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
eb3ddf1e6aea3ef8bb56f8d65c7dcd82  super_grub2_disk_standalone_i386_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.EFI
ce695895bef77c1aac8c2a737d38fbac  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.EFI
666a197765b481b82717fc3917d9c506  super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
75471d118381ba82fec39fab8670d348  super_grub2_disk_2.04rc1s1-beta4.zip

SHA1SUMS

ca71b0e51f8854f8aa11f7a8b015b871b1766e47  super_grub2_disk_2.04rc1s1-beta4_source_code.tar.gz
1c15c67ecb7cccb27ff8e4310ae84bb9ac6d08aa  super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
d3c09bcf13f4b770b073c82fddd445b7e196636c  super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
e0a2925f7ce28fde82d9c5480bbf19ee584ef313  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
730ea63e4cb279710f7ffb2d4450791464aee55c  super_grub2_disk_standalone_i386_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.EFI
f15116b867ebad51727d47289bc623da27f8a53d  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.EFI
855debb761c7caa9294f1a1d0af56e01f24ee455  super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
8800e20ac105714803cddec69ffdd06fbd530672  super_grub2_disk_2.04rc1s1-beta4.zip

SHA256SUMS

eb2f48b75de9d2a566c7385f1956dcc80bd0484ac1a2bf0a0e2f914930b4acd6  super_grub2_disk_2.04rc1s1-beta4_source_code.tar.gz
77a2716e544bd8ee598e306f4fcc776e65124841b1926fa80d849f3900d54719  super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
d7a0657e76198d00f2dc5b6b5d986758e6046dfc219c1b3020230737c3e90f76  super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
65f67deec4c683fa211ca17621444c924b371d506a7ac73e377a0bbaeb3247e4  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
0b691c73346abae945d3c827080eb4640e52fa290effd5d1122eba635464aedf  super_grub2_disk_standalone_i386_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.EFI
d3d94e870a9a2667feb1c68393df6e0c1fd67c1e92b2d15cf31d78e3de12fc59  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.EFI
007da80fa9fa051cd35a939a3f25860030ab24d15b27bddd58519aa0698285e3  super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.04rc1s1-beta4.iso
222bfa9a79f6ddfe1e15108cda35ed521d7a92a97fd0e53e3780b0c931fdb6c6  super_grub2_disk_2.04rc1s1-beta4.zip

Changelog (since former 2.00s2 stable release)

Changes since 2.02s10 version:

• Use grub-2.04-rc1 upstream grub2 tag

Changes since 2.02s9 version:

• ‘Enable all native disk drivers’ option was improved. It no longer crashes.
• Now devices are cached and Super Grub2 Disk is faster
• Modify sg2d_directory and sg2d_dev_name variables so that SG2D is more portable
• Standalone images are no longer broken and show main menu

Changes since 2.02s8 version:

• (Devel) supergrub-release-news helps release team to generate a template for its news. Initial implementation.
• (Devel) Added supergrub-release-changes to help with the release team.
• (Devel) INSTALL: Improved explanation about what release scripts and file outputs.
• Rename ‘(GRUB2 installation (even if mbr is overwritten))’ to: ‘(GRUB2 installation)’
• Use grub-2.02 upstream grub2 tag (Stable version)
• Added Chinese (zh-cn) translation
• Added Finnish translation (Thanks to tavallinenvirtanen7)

Changes since 2.02s7 version:

• Use grub-2.02-rc2 upstream grub2 tag
• Default theme starfield is no longer included. This will make images smaller.
• (Devel) Make sure normal isos and standalone images have hash files without its full path.
• (Devel) File hashes generation has been rewritten to work from the single supergrub-mkcommon generate_filename_hashes function
• (Devel) Now MD5SUMS, SHA1SUMS and SHA256SUMS files are generated as part of the official build.

Changes since 2.02s6 version:

• Updated grub 2.02 build to tag: 2.02~rc1

Changes since 2.02s5 version:

• Added Russian language
• Improved Arch Linux initramfs detection
• Added i386-efi build support
• Added i386-efi to the hybrid iso
• Grub itself is translated when a language is selected
• Added loopback.cfg file (non officially supported)
• (Devel) sgrub.pot updated to latest strings
• (Devel) Added grub-build-004-make-check so that we ensure the build works
• (Devel) Make sure linguas.sh is built when running ‘grub-build-002-clean-and-update’
• (Devel) Updated upstream Super Grub2 Disk repo on documentation
• (Devel) Move core supergrub menu under menus/sgd
• (Devel) Use sg2d_directory as the base super grub2 disk directory variable
• (Devel) New supergrub-sourcecode script that creates current git branch source code tar.gz
• (Devel) New supergrub-all-zip-file script: Makes sure a zip file of everything is built.
• (Devel) supergrub-meta-mkrescue: Build everything into releases directory in order to make source code more clean.
• (Devel) New supergrub-official-release script: Build main files, source code and everything zip file from a single script in order to ease official Super Grub
  2 Disk releases.

Changes since 2.02s4 version:

• Stop trying to chainload devices under UEFI and improve the help people get in the case of a platform mismatch
• (Devel) Properly support source based built grub-mkfont binary.
• New options were added to chainload directly either /ntldr or /bootmgr thanks to ntldr command. They only work in BIOS mode.

Changes since 2.02s3 version:

• Using upstream grub-2.02-beta3 tag as the new base for Super Grub2 Disk’s grub.
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on BCD) Windows Vista, 7, …
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on ntldr) Windows XP, 2000, …

Changes since 2.02s2 beta 1 version:

• (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:

• The upstream Grub crew. I’m subscribed to both help-grub and grub-devel and I admire the work you do there.
• Necrosporus for his insistence on making Super Grub2 Disk smaller.

The person who writes this article is adrian15 .

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 ideas

I think we won’t improve Super Grub2 Disk too much. We will try to stick to official Grub2 stable releases. Unless a new feature that it’s not included in official Grub2 stable release is needed in order to give additional useful functionalities to Super Grub2 Disk.

I have added some scripts to Super Grub2 Disk build so that writing these pieces of news is more automatic and less prone to errors. Check them out in git repo as you will not find them in 2.02s8 source code.

Old idea: I don’t know when but I plan to readapt some scripts from os-prober. That will let us detect more operating systems. Not sure when though. I mean, it’s not something that worries me because it does not affect too many final users. But, well, it’s something new that I hadn’t thought about.

Again, please send us feedback on what you think it’s missing on Super Grub2 Disk.

Rescatux development

I want to focus on Rescatux development on the next months so that we have an stable release before the end of 2017. Now I need to finish adding UEFI features (most finished), fix the scripts that generate Rescatux source code (difficult) and write much documentation.

(adrian15 speaking)

Getting help on using Super Grub2 Disk

• Howtos
• Documentation / Wiki
• Chat
• Forum
• Mailing list

More information about Super Grub2 Disk

• • Download stable Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download beta Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download latest (stable or beta) Super Grub2 Disk
  • Difference between Super Grub Disk and Super Grub2 Disk

Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s10 stable is here.

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 2.02s9 version and released on May 2017 (1 year and 6 months ago) . New features or changes since previous stable version are:

• ‘Enable all native disk drivers’ option was improved. It no longer crashes.
• Now devices are cached and Super Grub2 Disk is faster
• Modify sg2d_directory and sg2d_dev_name variables so that SG2D is more portable
• Standalone images are no longer broken and show main menu
• Other minor improvements

 

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.

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
  • Russian
  • Finnish / Suomi
  • Chinese

• Detect and show boot methods option to detect most Operating Systems

• 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

    

  • 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 10
  • Windows Vista/7/8/8.1
  • Windows NT/2000/XP
  • Windows 98/ME
  • MS-DOS
  • FreeDOS
• GNU/Linux
  • Direct Kernel with autodetected initrd

    

    • 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

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, i386-efi, x86_64-efi) (ISO)
• EFI x86_64 standalone version (EFI)
• EFI i386 standalone version (EFI)
• Additional Floppy, CD and USB in one download (ISO)
  • i386-pc
  • i386-efi
  • x86_64-efi

Known bugs

• Non English translations are not completed

Supported Media

• Compact Disk – Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) / DVD
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices
• Floppy (1.98s1 version only)

Downloads

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Recommended download (Floppy, CD & USB in one) (Valid for i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi):

• Super Grub2 Disk (CD & USB in one) 2.02s10 (ISO)[Mirror #1]

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EFI x86_64 standalone version:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Standalone ; x86_64-efi) 2.02s10 (EFI)[Mirror #1]

EFI i386 standalone version:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Standalone ; i386-efi) 2.02s10 (EFI)[Mirror #1]

CD & USB in one downloads:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.02s10 [i386-pc] (ISO)[Mirror #1]
• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.02s10 [x86_64-efi] (ISO)[Mirror #1]
• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.02s10 [i386-efi] (ISO)[Mirror #1]

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. bfree has helped on this matter and with his help we might have those builds in next releases. If you want such builds drop a mail in the mailing list so that we aware of that need.

 

Source code:

• Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s10 Source Code (Git repo)[Mirror #1]

Everything (All binary releases and source code):

• Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s10 Everything (ZIP)(MD5)[Mirror #1]
• Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s10 Everything TORRENT

Hashes

In order to check the former downloads you can either check the download directory page for this release

or you can check checksums right here:

MD5SUMS

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b908d95d474d59d6c0ee6f2d4b07ef1e  super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.02s10.iso
0e1aca462a06c81ea1aee6ba0088be4c  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.02s10.iso
856e7e6b5a905416ab33d3c666095b54  super_grub2_disk_standalone_i386_efi_2.02s10.EFI
8b0d7488dce4adac990c397dc1b92ed0  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.02s10.EFI
ee6b79fadec969fbed4d85569a3b47dd  super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.02s10.iso
1097fc7d02d4e8c810b5cc80c8cddef8  super_grub2_disk_2.02s10.zip

SHA1SUMS

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9088a1fffbc678473007da33a391fc02e7cf5335  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.02s10.iso
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SHA256SUMS

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6f08f01c26b22c5a61e9955eb55326bdf967e2ff1a0f261308128452ef3ab06d  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.02s10.EFI
bd12b4aa8e7ec167d33185aad27d1711c82d8a40dda9a3a2dc2579eb6d32f99f  super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.02s10.iso
5d9de73f0a62d726a9fedf22b5c54bb03e333768ab4892d973531e24e63f3089  super_grub2_disk_2.02s10.zip

Changelog (since former 2.00s2 stable release)

Changes since 2.02s9 version:

• ‘Enable all native disk drivers’ option was improved. It no longer crashes.
• Now devices are cached and Super Grub2 Disk is faster
• Modify sg2d_directory and sg2d_dev_name variables so that SG2D is more portable
• Standalone images are no longer broken and show main menu

Changes since 2.02s8 version:

• (Devel) supergrub-release-news helps release team to generate a template for its news. Initial implementation.
• (Devel) Added supergrub-release-changes to help with the release team.
• (Devel) INSTALL: Improved explanation about what release scripts and file outputs.
• Rename ‘(GRUB2 installation (even if mbr is overwritten))’ to: ‘(GRUB2 installation)’
• Use grub-2.02 upstream grub2 tag (Stable version)
• Added Chinese (zh-cn) translation
• Added Finnish translation (Thanks to tavallinenvirtanen7)

Changes since 2.02s7 version:

• Use grub-2.02-rc2 upstream grub2 tag
• Default theme starfield is no longer included. This will make images smaller.
• (Devel) Make sure normal isos and standalone images have hash files without its full path.
• (Devel) File hashes generation has been rewritten to work from the single supergrub-mkcommon generate_filename_hashes function
• (Devel) Now MD5SUMS, SHA1SUMS and SHA256SUMS files are generated as part of the official build.

Changes since 2.02s6 version:

• Updated grub 2.02 build to tag: 2.02~rc1

Changes since 2.02s5 version:

• Added Russian language
• Improved Arch Linux initramfs detection
• Added i386-efi build support
• Added i386-efi to the hybrid iso
• Grub itself is translated when a language is selected
• Added loopback.cfg file (non officially supported)
• (Devel) sgrub.pot updated to latest strings
• (Devel) Added grub-build-004-make-check so that we ensure the build works
• (Devel) Make sure linguas.sh is built when running ‘grub-build-002-clean-and-update’
• (Devel) Updated upstream Super Grub2 Disk repo on documentation
• (Devel) Move core supergrub menu under menus/sgd
• (Devel) Use sg2d_directory as the base super grub2 disk directory variable
• (Devel) New supergrub-sourcecode script that creates current git branch source code tar.gz
• (Devel) New supergrub-all-zip-file script: Makes sure a zip file of everything is built.
• (Devel) supergrub-meta-mkrescue: Build everything into releases directory in order to make source code more clean.
• (Devel) New supergrub-official-release script: Build main files, source code and everything zip file from a single script in order to ease official Super Grub
  2 Disk releases.

Changes since 2.02s4 version:

• Stop trying to chainload devices under UEFI and improve the help people get in the case of a platform mismatch
• (Devel) Properly support source based built grub-mkfont binary.
• New options were added to chainload directly either /ntldr or /bootmgr thanks to ntldr command. They only work in BIOS mode.

Changes since 2.02s3 version:

• Using upstream grub-2.02-beta3 tag as the new base for Super Grub2 Disk’s grub.
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on BCD) Windows Vista, 7, …
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on ntldr) Windows XP, 2000, …

Changes since 2.02s2 beta 1 version:

• (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:

• The upstream Grub crew. I’m subscribed to both help-grub and grub-devel and I admire the work you do there.
• Necrosporus for his insistence on making Super Grub2 Disk smaller.

The person who writes this article is adrian15 .

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 ideas

I think we won’t improve Super Grub2 Disk too much. We will try to stick to official Grub2 stable releases. Unless a new feature that it’s not included in official Grub2 stable release is needed in order to give additional useful functionalities to Super Grub2 Disk.

I have added some scripts to Super Grub2 Disk build so that writing these pieces of news is more automatic and less prone to errors. Check them out in git repo as you will not find them in 2.02s8 source code.

Old idea: I don’t know when but I plan to readapt some scripts from os-prober. That will let us detect more operating systems. Not sure when though. I mean, it’s not something that worries me because it does not affect too many final users. But, well, it’s something new that I hadn’t thought about.

Again, please send us feedback on what you think it’s missing on Super Grub2 Disk.

Rescatux development

I want to focus on Rescatux development on the next months so that we have an stable release before the end of 2017. Now I need to finish adding UEFI features (most finished), fix the scripts that generate Rescatux source code (difficult) and write much documentation.

(adrian15 speaking)

Getting help on using Super Grub2 Disk

• Howtos
• Documentation / Wiki
• Chat
• Forum
• Mailing list

More information about Super Grub2 Disk

• • Download stable Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download beta Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download latest (stable or beta) Super Grub2 Disk
  • Difference between Super Grub Disk and Super Grub2 Disk

Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s10 beta 5 is here.

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 beta release

The former Super Grub2 Disk stable release was 2.02s9 version and released on May 2017 (6 months ago) . New features or changes since previous stable version are:

• Modify sg2d_directory and sg2d_dev_name variables so that SG2D is more portable
• ‘Enable all native disk drivers’ option was improved. It no longer crashes.
• Now devices are cached and Super Grub2 Disk is faster
• Other minor improvements
• Standalone images are no longer broken and show main menu

 

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.

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
  • Russian
  • Finnish / Suomi
  • Chinese

• Detect and show boot methods option to detect most Operating Systems

• 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

    

  • 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 10
  • Windows Vista/7/8/8.1
  • Windows NT/2000/XP
  • Windows 98/ME
  • MS-DOS
  • FreeDOS
• GNU/Linux
  • Direct Kernel with autodetected initrd

    

    • 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

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, i386-efi, x86_64-efi) (ISO)
• EFI x86_64 standalone version (EFI)
• EFI i386 standalone version (EFI)
• Additional Floppy, CD and USB in one download (ISO)
  • i386-pc
  • i386-efi
  • 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) / DVD
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices
• Floppy (1.98s1 version only)

Downloads

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Recommended download (Floppy, CD & USB in one) (Valid for i386, x86_64, i386-efi and x86_64-efi):

• Super Grub2 Disk (CD & USB in one) 2.02s10-beta5 (ISO)[Mirror #1]

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EFI x86_64 standalone version:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Standalone ; x86_64-efi) 2.02s10-beta5 (EFI)[Mirror #1]

EFI i386 standalone version:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Standalone ; i386-efi) 2.02s10-beta5 (EFI)[Mirror #1]

CD & USB in one downloads:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.02s10-beta5 [i386-pc] (ISO)[Mirror #1]
• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.02s10-beta5 [x86_64-efi] (ISO)[Mirror #1]
• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.02s10-beta5 [i386-efi] (ISO)[Mirror #1]

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. bfree has helped on this matter and with his help we might have those builds in next releases. If you want such builds drop a mail in the mailing list so that we aware of that need.

 

Source code:

• Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s10-beta5 Source Code (Git repo)[Mirror #1]

Everything (All binary releases and source code):

• Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s10-beta5 Everything (ZIP)(MD5)[Mirror #1]
• Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s10-beta5 Everything TORRENT

Hashes

In order to check the former downloads you can either check the download directory page for this release

or you can check checksums right here:

MD5SUMS

74710bd747a32e1b8b8be7800329aaf5  super_grub2_disk_2.02s10-beta5_source_code.tar.gz
df2ae8e455eec3214a8e8442a2ce4d3b  super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.02s10-beta5.iso
5c693e788d82b32f6485163956636fd4  super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.02s10-beta5.iso
d7b4a0127a7a1afaa78bf2ea75d4fb77  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.02s10-beta5.iso
b50709fadf5c7981c335652b0be0aa01  super_grub2_disk_standalone_i386_efi_2.02s10-beta5.EFI
4572e26065bb8a35920c5b506b9ab702  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.02s10-beta5.EFI
3793dbca3a0531c7ecdabf952e107053  super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.02s10-beta5.iso
051ac1e54b03e1da3827e75530654d2a  super_grub2_disk_2.02s10-beta5.zip

SHA1SUMS

bfcc73fa719ca5d51f18bae50e60f29904e6934a  super_grub2_disk_2.02s10-beta5_source_code.tar.gz
069334163333c7c98564b954748d52b5a7ef74c9  super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.02s10-beta5.iso
1eda352925905f7e5178fa7be1bb0baca965d998  super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.02s10-beta5.iso
8cac71f411a6ca92e770c7e8afd3dda7e1bb8b0c  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.02s10-beta5.iso
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0af49222ff459a963dfd0394c5d04aed4c603080  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.02s10-beta5.EFI
dad28f36810ea509554fcf1dbfb03eb6a7fd5b7f  super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.02s10-beta5.iso
55afdd21b2506c9f3c13faeaf91982338dda2cb6  super_grub2_disk_2.02s10-beta5.zip

SHA256SUMS

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94d72c78ac1e2d60f9793ce25a4dbb956235f8ddf31ed10f3bcfc171e873007a  super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.02s10-beta5.iso
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6840d154a43a66e11c40c84dc71ae488a814cbe626070c4bdded8581cf6b2969  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.02s10-beta5.EFI
77789a719e04066cba964962d74a31875724c00d38b68d4351534d0196bdd171  super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.02s10-beta5.iso
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Changelog (since former 2.00s2 stable release)

Changes since 2.02s9 version:

• Modify sg2d_directory and sg2d_dev_name variables so that SG2D is more portable
• ‘Enable all native disk drivers’ option was improved. It no longer crashes.
• Now devices are cached and Super Grub2 Disk is faster
• Other minor improvements
• Standalone images are no longer broken and show main menu

Changes since 2.02s8 version:

• (Devel) supergrub-release-news helps release team to generate a template for its news. Initial implementation.
• (Devel) Added supergrub-release-changes to help with the release team.
• (Devel) INSTALL: Improved explanation about what release scripts and file outputs.
• Rename ‘(GRUB2 installation (even if mbr is overwritten))’ to: ‘(GRUB2 installation)’
• Use grub-2.02 upstream grub2 tag (Stable version)
• Added Chinese (zh-cn) translation
• Added Finnish translation (Thanks to tavallinenvirtanen7)

Changes since 2.02s7 version:

• Use grub-2.02-rc2 upstream grub2 tag
• Default theme starfield is no longer included. This will make images smaller.
• (Devel) Make sure normal isos and standalone images have hash files without its full path.
• (Devel) File hashes generation has been rewritten to work from the single supergrub-mkcommon generate_filename_hashes function
• (Devel) Now MD5SUMS, SHA1SUMS and SHA256SUMS files are generated as part of the official build.

Changes since 2.02s6 version:

• Updated grub 2.02 build to tag: 2.02~rc1

Changes since 2.02s5 version:

• Added Russian language
• Improved Arch Linux initramfs detection
• Added i386-efi build support
• Added i386-efi to the hybrid iso
• Grub itself is translated when a language is selected
• Added loopback.cfg file (non officially supported)
• (Devel) sgrub.pot updated to latest strings
• (Devel) Added grub-build-004-make-check so that we ensure the build works
• (Devel) Make sure linguas.sh is built when running ‘grub-build-002-clean-and-update’
• (Devel) Updated upstream Super Grub2 Disk repo on documentation
• (Devel) Move core supergrub menu under menus/sgd
• (Devel) Use sg2d_directory as the base super grub2 disk directory variable
• (Devel) New supergrub-sourcecode script that creates current git branch source code tar.gz
• (Devel) New supergrub-all-zip-file script: Makes sure a zip file of everything is built.
• (Devel) supergrub-meta-mkrescue: Build everything into releases directory in order to make source code more clean.
• (Devel) New supergrub-official-release script: Build main files, source code and everything zip file from a single script in order to ease official Super Grub
  2 Disk releases.

Changes since 2.02s4 version:

• Stop trying to chainload devices under UEFI and improve the help people get in the case of a platform mismatch
• (Devel) Properly support source based built grub-mkfont binary.
• New options were added to chainload directly either /ntldr or /bootmgr thanks to ntldr command. They only work in BIOS mode.

Changes since 2.02s3 version:

• Using upstream grub-2.02-beta3 tag as the new base for Super Grub2 Disk’s grub.
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on BCD) Windows Vista, 7, …
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on ntldr) Windows XP, 2000, …

Changes since 2.02s2 beta 1 version:

• (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:

• The upstream Grub crew. I’m subscribed to both help-grub and grub-devel and I admire the work you do there.
• Necrosporus for his insistence on making Super Grub2 Disk smaller.

The person who writes this article is adrian15 .

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 ideas

I think we won’t improve Super Grub2 Disk too much. We will try to stick to official Grub2 stable releases. Unless a new feature that it’s not included in official Grub2 stable release is needed in order to give additional useful functionalities to Super Grub2 Disk.

I have added some scripts to Super Grub2 Disk build so that writing these pieces of news is more automatic and less prone to errors. Check them out in git repo as you will not find them in 2.02s8 source code.

Old idea: I don’t know when but I plan to readapt some scripts from os-prober. That will let us detect more operating systems. Not sure when though. I mean, it’s not something that worries me because it does not affect too many final users. But, well, it’s something new that I hadn’t thought about.

Again, please send us feedback on what you think it’s missing on Super Grub2 Disk.

Rescatux development

I want to focus on Rescatux development on the next months so that we have an stable release before the end of 2017. Now I need to finish adding UEFI features (most finished), fix the scripts that generate Rescatux source code (difficult) and write much documentation.

(adrian15 speaking)

Getting help on using Super Grub2 Disk

• Howtos
• Documentation / Wiki
• Chat
• Forum
• Mailing list

More information about Super Grub2 Disk

• • Download stable Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download beta Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download latest (stable or beta) Super Grub2 Disk
  • Difference between Super Grub Disk and Super Grub2 Disk

Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s9 stable is here.

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 2.02s8 version and released on March 2017 (2 months ago) . New features or changes since previous stable version are:

• Updated grub 2.02 build to tag: 2.02 . This is the final stable 2.02 upstream Grub release.
• Added Chinese translation (Thanks to shankerwangmiao)
• Added Finnish translation (Thanks to tavallinenvirtanen7)
• supergrub-release-news helps release team to generate a template for its news.
• Added supergrub-release-changes to help with the release team.
• Rename ‘(GRUB2 installation (even if mbr is overwritten))’ to: ‘(GRUB2 installation)’

 

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.

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
  • Russian
  • Finnish / Suomi
  • Chinese

• Detect and show boot methods option to detect most Operating Systems

• 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

    

  • 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 10
  • Windows Vista/7/8/8.1
  • Windows NT/2000/XP
  • Windows 98/ME
  • MS-DOS
  • FreeDOS
• GNU/Linux
  • Direct Kernel with autodetected initrd

    

    • 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

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, i386-efi, x86_64-efi) (ISO)
• EFI x86_64 standalone version (EFI)
• EFI i386 standalone version (EFI)
• Additional Floppy, CD and USB in one download (ISO)
  • i386-pc
  • i386-efi
  • 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) / DVD
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices
• Floppy (1.98s1 version only)

Downloads

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• Super Grub2 Disk (CD & USB in one) 2.02s9 (ISO)[Mirror #1]

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EFI x86_64 standalone version:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Standalone ; x86_64-efi) 2.02s9 (EFI)[Mirror #1]

EFI i386 standalone version:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Standalone ; i386-efi) 2.02s9 (EFI)[Mirror #1]

CD & USB in one downloads:

• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.02s9 [i386-pc] (ISO)[Mirror #1]
• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.02s9 [x86_64-efi] (ISO)[Mirror #1]
• Super Grub2 Disk (Floppy, CD & USB in one) 2.02s9 [i386-efi] (ISO)[Mirror #1]

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. bfree has helped on this matter and with his help we might have those builds in next releases. If you want such builds drop a mail in the mailing list so that we aware of that need.

 

Source code:

• Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s9 Source Code (Git repo)[Mirror #1]

Everything (All binary releases and source code):

• • Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s9 Everything (ZIP)(MD5)[Mirror #1]

Super Grub2 Disk 2.02s9 Everything TORRENT

Hashes

In order to check the former downloads you can either check the download directory page for this release

or you can check checksums right here:

MD5SUMS

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f4c11d203332ca9ab16694f1b4dbf424  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.02s9.iso
91c292217748205ace3ec653e2d87f93  super_grub2_disk_standalone_i386_efi_2.02s9.EFI
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f88def639336336488639dcfe370fe81  super_grub2_disk_2.02s9.zip

SHA1SUMS

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33b42792e71a87f62a88147adc6a2abd66e5b61d  super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.02s9.iso
9a0d4f4b0d1b018c24b2464e9993482274624bdd  super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.02s9.iso
95d3844859c01068cfc57994476d3aa4140ceb37  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.02s9.iso
97065195abacd5139ab31cb78a49abba0f5917e5  super_grub2_disk_standalone_i386_efi_2.02s9.EFI
b11fd45974f7ddc96367efefe6e05613b2608ff2  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.02s9.EFI
b82bb0a4477abd768a219e76412566124df5ea22  super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.02s9.iso
88c9d368fc1c5eb618738a918a21d3f3a3122f9a  super_grub2_disk_2.02s9.zip

SHA256SUMS

fec7788e5d2a1bdff9677497333d711c15ac2218e3cfd9cb2d3471f6481922de  super_grub2_disk_2.02s9_source_code.tar.gz
13857f9b09e26179804b998db5ecbe02634f3e85cf13bb49dec54dd67edbb899  super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.02s9.iso
cf06321848168adaf643501185fb4b7132351c10397205c5a68fd060f3ae3cfa  super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.02s9.iso
095e1d665e5d492d2626c95a296f2f2c8d4ea2777d0cbfce2f06df48089c0e91  super_grub2_disk_i386_pc_2.02s9.iso
b63f8afaa7843bc5ca92e7313a310d4ee93e269858a4ed5c14227afe0eb52d9d  super_grub2_disk_standalone_i386_efi_2.02s9.EFI
886307c86b580f1df173692e1f3d9487724d49bd16e97f3c2e8458244592418c  super_grub2_disk_standalone_x86_64_efi_2.02s9.EFI
5169b36ffffddb43e7a5f9e273b7be6cacd8f469ecb5288c48d6a8d27c750c95  super_grub2_disk_x86_64_efi_2.02s9.iso
46d953b494c0963db4670ffbaa02e3d2a67a1ff46b5d9298a4bdbbf3e17c522e  super_grub2_disk_2.02s9.zip

Changelog (since former 2.00s2 stable release)

Changes since 2.02s8 version:

• (Devel) supergrub-release-news helps release team to generate a template for its news. Initial implementation.
• (Devel) Added supergrub-release-changes to help with the release team.
• (Devel) INSTALL: Improved explanation about what release scripts and file outputs.
• Rename ‘(GRUB2 installation (even if mbr is overwritten))’ to: ‘(GRUB2 installation)’
• Use grub-2.02 upstream grub2 tag (Stable version)
• Added Chinese (zh-cn) translation
• Added Finnish translation (Thanks to tavallinenvirtanen7)

Changes since 2.02s7 version:

• Use grub-2.02-rc2 upstream grub2 tag
• Default theme starfield is no longer included. This will make images smaller.
• (Devel) Make sure normal isos and standalone images have hash files without its full path.
• (Devel) File hashes generation has been rewritten to work from the single supergrub-mkcommon generate_filename_hashes function
• (Devel) Now MD5SUMS, SHA1SUMS and SHA256SUMS files are generated as part of the official build.

Changes since 2.02s6 version:

• Updated grub 2.02 build to tag: 2.02~rc1

Changes since 2.02s5 version:

• Added Russian language
• Improved Arch Linux initramfs detection
• Added i386-efi build support
• Added i386-efi to the hybrid iso
• Grub itself is translated when a language is selected
• Added loopback.cfg file (non officially supported)
• (Devel) sgrub.pot updated to latest strings
• (Devel) Added grub-build-004-make-check so that we ensure the build works
• (Devel) Make sure linguas.sh is built when running ‘grub-build-002-clean-and-update’
• (Devel) Updated upstream Super Grub2 Disk repo on documentation
• (Devel) Move core supergrub menu under menus/sgd
• (Devel) Use sg2d_directory as the base super grub2 disk directory variable
• (Devel) New supergrub-sourcecode script that creates current git branch source code tar.gz
• (Devel) New supergrub-all-zip-file script: Makes sure a zip file of everything is built.
• (Devel) supergrub-meta-mkrescue: Build everything into releases directory in order to make source code more clean.
• (Devel) New supergrub-official-release script: Build main files, source code and everything zip file from a single script in order to ease official Super Grub
  2 Disk releases.

Changes since 2.02s4 version:

• Stop trying to chainload devices under UEFI and improve the help people get in the case of a platform mismatch
• (Devel) Properly support source based built grub-mkfont binary.
• New options were added to chainload directly either /ntldr or /bootmgr thanks to ntldr command. They only work in BIOS mode.

Changes since 2.02s3 version:

• Using upstream grub-2.02-beta3 tag as the new base for Super Grub2 Disk’s grub.
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on BCD) Windows Vista, 7, …
• Major improvement in Windows OS detection (based on ntldr) Windows XP, 2000, …

Changes since 2.02s2 beta 1 version:

• (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:

• The upstream Grub crew. I’m subscribed to both help-grub and grub-devel and I admire the work you do there.
• Necrosporus for his insistence on making Super Grub2 Disk smaller.

The person who writes this article is adrian15 .

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 ideas

I think we won’t improve Super Grub2 Disk too much. We will try to stick to official Grub2 stable releases. Unless a new feature that it’s not included in official Grub2 stable release is needed in order to give additional useful functionalities to Super Grub2 Disk.

I have added some scripts to Super Grub2 Disk build so that writing these pieces of news is more automatic and less prone to errors. Check them out in git repo as you will not find them in 2.02s8 source code.

Old idea: I don’t know when but I plan to readapt some scripts from os-prober. That will let us detect more operating systems. Not sure when though. I mean, it’s not something that worries me because it does not affect too many final users. But, well, it’s something new that I hadn’t thought about.

Again, please send us feedback on what you think it’s missing on Super Grub2 Disk.

Rescatux development

I want to focus on Rescatux development on the next months so that we have an stable release before the end of 2017. Now I need to finish adding UEFI features (most finished), fix the scripts that generate Rescatux source code (difficult) and write much documentation.

(adrian15 speaking)

Getting help on using Super Grub2 Disk

• Howtos
• Documentation / Wiki
• Chat
• Forum
• Mailing list

More information about Super Grub2 Disk

• • Download stable Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download beta Super Grub2 Disk
  • Download latest (stable or beta) Super Grub2 Disk
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