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[3f8be484] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent"> |
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| 5 | %general-entities; |
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| 6 | ]> |
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| 7 | <sect1 id="ch-system-grub" role="wrap"> |
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="grub.html"?> |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | <title>GRUB-&grub-version;</title> |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub"> |
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| 13 | <primary sortas="a-GRUB">GRUB</primary> |
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| 14 | </indexterm> |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | <sect2 role="package"> |
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| 17 | <title/> |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | <para>The GRUB package contains the GRand Unified Bootloader.</para> |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | </sect2> |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | <sect2 role="installation"> |
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| 24 | <title>Installation of GRUB</title> |
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| 25 | |
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[407772b] | 26 | <note os="n1"> |
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| 27 | <para>If you would like use a different bootloader than this |
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| 28 | one you can go to the following link for alterative bootloaders |
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| 29 | and the instructions to use them. |
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| 30 | <ulink url="http://trac.cross-lfs.org/wiki/bootloaders"/></para> |
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| 31 | </note> |
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| 32 | |
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[1ebba95] | 33 | <para os="p1">GRUB has an issue that can cause it to segfault when you |
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| 34 | try to configure a drive to utilize GRUB on x86_64 and building machines. The following |
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| 35 | patch fixes this problem:</para> |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&grub-use_mmap-patch;</userinput></screen> |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | <para os="p3">GRUB has an issue where it sometimes doesn't detect |
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[ca9712f] | 40 | the disk geometry correctly when used with Linux 2.6, resulting |
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| 41 | in the error message <literal>Error 24: Attempt to access block outside |
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| 42 | partition</literal>. The following patch contains a fix for this issue |
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| 43 | as well as various fixes for raid controllers and support for the |
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| 44 | new Intel Mac:</para> |
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[37ba094c] | 45 | |
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[1ebba95] | 46 | <screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&grub-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen> |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | <para os="p5">By default, GRUB doesn't support ext2 filesystems with 256-byte inodes. Fix this by applying the following patch:</para> |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | <screen os="p6"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&grub-256byte_inode-patch;</userinput></screen> |
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[37ba094c] | 51 | |
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[1ebba95] | 52 | <para os="p7">By default, GRUB doesn't support ext4 filesystems. Fix this by applying the following patch:</para> |
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[ca9712f] | 53 | |
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[1ebba95] | 54 | <screen os="p8"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&grub-ext4-patch;</userinput></screen> |
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[ca9712f] | 55 | |
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[3f8be484] | 56 | <para os="a">This package is known to have issues when its default optimization |
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| 57 | flags (including the <option>-march</option> and <option>-mcpu</option> |
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| 58 | options) are changed. If any environment variables that override default |
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| 59 | optimizations have been defined, such as <envar>CFLAGS</envar> and |
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| 60 | <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar>, unset them when building GRUB.</para> |
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| 61 | |
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| 62 | <para os="b">Prepare GRUB for compilation:</para> |
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| 63 | |
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| 64 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen> |
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| 65 | |
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| 66 | <para os="c">Compile the package:</para> |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | <screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen> |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | <para os="e">To test the results, issue: |
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[e3a1e522] | 71 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 72 | |
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[e3a1e522] | 73 | <para os="f">Install the package:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 74 | |
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[e3a1e522] | 75 | <screen os="g"><userinput>make install |
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[c1fe1fee] | 76 | mkdir -pv /boot/grub |
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[040521bc] | 77 | cp -v /usr/lib/grub/*/stage{1,2} /boot/grub</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 78 | |
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[040521bc] | 79 | <para os="h">The directory in |
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| 80 | <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/grub</filename> (its name depends |
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| 81 | on your arch) contains a number of <filename>*stage1_5</filename> files, |
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| 82 | different ones for different file systems. Review the files available and |
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| 83 | copy the appropriate ones to the <filename |
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[3f8be484] | 84 | class="directory">/boot/grub</filename> directory. Most users will |
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| 85 | copy the <filename>e2fs_stage1_5</filename> and/or |
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| 86 | <filename>reiserfs_stage1_5</filename> files.</para> |
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| 87 | |
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| 88 | </sect2> |
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| 89 | |
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| 90 | <sect2 id="contents-grub" role="content"> |
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| 91 | <title>Contents of GRUB</title> |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 94 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> |
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| 95 | |
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| 96 | <seglistitem> |
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[e29fb58] | 97 | <seg>grub, grub-install, grub-md5-crypt, grub-set-default, grub-terminfo, and mbchk</seg> |
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[3f8be484] | 98 | </seglistitem> |
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| 99 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 100 | |
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| 101 | <variablelist> |
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| 102 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> |
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| 103 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> |
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| 104 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> |
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| 105 | |
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| 106 | <varlistentry id="grub"> |
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| 107 | <term><command>grub</command></term> |
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| 108 | <listitem> |
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| 109 | <para>The Grand Unified Bootloader's command shell</para> |
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| 110 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub"> |
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| 111 | <primary sortas="b-grub">grub</primary> |
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| 112 | </indexterm> |
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| 113 | </listitem> |
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| 114 | </varlistentry> |
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| 115 | |
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| 116 | <varlistentry id="grub-install"> |
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| 117 | <term><command>grub-install</command></term> |
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| 118 | <listitem> |
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| 119 | <para>Installs GRUB on the given device</para> |
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| 120 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-install"> |
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| 121 | <primary sortas="b-grub-install">grub-install</primary> |
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| 122 | </indexterm> |
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| 123 | </listitem> |
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| 124 | </varlistentry> |
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| 125 | |
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| 126 | <varlistentry id="grub-md5-crypt"> |
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| 127 | <term><command>grub-md5-crypt</command></term> |
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| 128 | <listitem> |
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| 129 | <para>Encrypts a password in MD5 format</para> |
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| 130 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-md5-crypt"> |
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| 131 | <primary sortas="b-grub-md5-crypt">grub-md5-crypt</primary> |
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| 132 | </indexterm> |
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| 133 | </listitem> |
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| 134 | </varlistentry> |
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| 135 | |
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[e29fb58] | 136 | <varlistentry id="grub-set-default"> |
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| 137 | <term><command>grub-set-default</command></term> |
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| 138 | <listitem> |
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| 139 | <para>Sets the default boot entry for GRUB</para> |
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| 140 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-set-default"> |
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| 141 | <primary sortas="b-grub-set-default">grub-set-default</primary> |
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| 142 | </indexterm> |
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| 143 | </listitem> |
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| 144 | </varlistentry> |
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| 145 | |
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[3f8be484] | 146 | <varlistentry id="grub-terminfo"> |
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| 147 | <term><command>grub-terminfo</command></term> |
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| 148 | <listitem> |
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| 149 | <para>Generates a terminfo command from a terminfo name; it can be |
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| 150 | employed if an unknown terminal is being used</para> |
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| 151 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-terminfo"> |
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| 152 | <primary sortas="b-grub-terminfo">grub-terminfo</primary> |
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| 153 | </indexterm> |
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| 154 | </listitem> |
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| 155 | </varlistentry> |
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| 156 | |
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| 157 | <varlistentry id="mbchk"> |
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| 158 | <term><command>mbchk</command></term> |
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| 159 | <listitem> |
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| 160 | <para>Checks the format of a multi-boot kernel</para> |
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| 161 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub mbchk"> |
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| 162 | <primary sortas="b-mbchk">mbchk</primary> |
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| 163 | </indexterm> |
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| 164 | </listitem> |
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| 165 | </varlistentry> |
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| 166 | |
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| 167 | </variablelist> |
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| 168 | |
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| 169 | </sect2> |
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| 170 | |
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| 171 | </sect1> |
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