Fedora 16 Update: grub-0.97-79.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-13475
2011-09-29 04:45:18
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Name        : grub
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 0.97
Release     : 79.fc16
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Summary     : Grand Unified Boot Loader.
Description :
GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) is an experimental boot loader
capable of booting into most free operating systems - Linux, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, GNU Mach, and others as well as most commercial operating
systems.

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Update Information:

Fix miscompilation when device command is used on UEFI systems.
Fixes a case where the machine shows a blinking cursor instead of the
boot menu.
Fix various problems with grub including:
- Various UEFI bugs:
- Fix stack alignment on UEFI systems (731529)
- Add support for providing legacy graphics rom support
- problems caused due to simultaneous installation of grub and grub2 (725185)
- Allow booting from higher drive numbers (671355)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #741781 - EFI installs failing with Fedora 16 Beta on most hardware
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741781
  [ 2 ] Bug #731529 - grub making uefi calls without aligning stack pointer
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731529
  [ 3 ] Bug #671355 - Can't boot from 9th or further HDD.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671355
  [ 4 ] Bug #725185 - grubby doesn't add the initrd line at the kernel update
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725185
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update grub' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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