GRUB 2.02 Bootloader Officially Released with ZFS LZ4 & LVM RAID1 Support, More

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The long-anticipated GRUB 2.02 open-source bootloader software project was finally promoted to the stable channel after being in Beta stages of development for the past few years.

The development team took their time to finalize the release of GRUB 2.02, which should soon make its way into the stable software repositories of your favorite operating system, but it’s finally here and we want to thank them for all their hard work and the awesome new features and improvements implemented so far.

Prominent features of GRUB 2.02 include Big-Endian UFS1 support, experimental 64-bit EXT2 support, GPT PReP support, the ability to use LVM UUIDs if available, proper handling of partitioned LVM, CBFS (coreboot) support, ZFS LZ4 support, ZFS features support, XFS V5 format support, as well as LVM RAID1 support.

It also ships with various fixes for non-512-byte sector devices, a new “progress” module that display… (read more)

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