>>>>> OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
OY> From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Help
OY> messages Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:05:26 +0400 (EEST)
>> It would be nice if a native Englishman checked the messages after
>> me.
OY> The same thing can be applied to me, too.
As an official native Englishman (well, not really... I'm just
Canadian), I've checked in changes to the messages in builtins.c. I
also updated grub.texi, so you don't have to worry about that.
While I was at it, I merged hide_partition with unhide_partition, and
made them behave correctly (OR and AND rather than XOR).
>> Also the purpose of HDBIAS remains unclear to me. Is it something
>> like "set root_disk_unit=" in FreeBSD?
Yes... does this make it clearer?
Set the current @dfn{root partition} to the device @var{device}, then
attempt to mount it to get the partition size (for passing the partition
descriptor in @code{ES:ESI}, used by some chain-loaded bootloaders), the
BSD drive-type (for booting BSD kernels using their native boot format),
and correctly determine the PC partition where a BSD sub-partition is
located. The optional @var{hdbias} parameter is a number to tell a BSD
kernel how many BIOS drive numbers are on controllers before the current
one. For example, if there is an IDE disk and a SCSI disk, and your
FreeBSD root partition is on the SCSI disk, then use a @samp{1} for
@var{hdbias}.
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