Fedora 18 Update: grub2-2.00-5.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-12607
2012-08-24 00:11:45.410520
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Name        : grub2
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 2.00
Release     : 5.fc18
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Summary     : Bootloader with support for Linux, Multiboot and more
Description :
The GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) is a highly configurable and customizable
bootloader with modular architecture.  It support rich varietyof kernel formats,
file systems, computer architectures and hardware devices.  This subpackage
provides support for PC BIOS systems.

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Update Information:

- Fixes rpm macro evaluation on non-x86_64 for pesign
- Provides signed grub2 and kernel images
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #849244 - Include signed grub2 and kernel in Alpha
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849244
  [ 2 ] Bug #850003 - One machine is crashing when running kernel-PAE-3.6.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc18.i686 but not kernel-PAE-3.6.0-0.rc1.git0.2.fc18.i686
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850003
  [ 3 ] Bug #843860 - "fb: conflicting fb hw usage cirrusdrmfb vs EFI VGA - removing generic driver" results in no further console output
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843860
  [ 4 ] Bug #846037 - suspicious RCU usage. security/selinux/netnode.c:178
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846037
  [ 5 ] Bug #847548 - kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:67 (vp_set / virtscsi_init / virtscsi_complete_free) kernel panics when virtio-scsi module is loaded
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847548
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update grub2' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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