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From: Iain Buchanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:26 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader
I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else,
but what I _don't_ like is when
On Thursday 19 July 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE:
[gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader':
I have seen many of them that the man page and the
info page were identicle. More often though it looked
like they made a decent man page, and coppied it to info.
info automatically pulls man
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Stroller wrote:
It's enough to make the
average person's head spin (and does) - it can easily take two
hours for me to get a class full of reasonably bright Windows
techies to grasp ...
You clearly have more experience than I do with teaching novices
about
Hi,
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but
what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of
them is very deficient (in grub's case, man). The description is
different, less
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 13:36 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but
what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of
them is very
On 18 Jul 2007, at 13:35, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
...
You can get everything at once and in the same place using the online
docs:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
This manual is very excellent.
I believe you can also get it in PDF format - I printed it out over 3
years ago
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Stroller wrote:
On 18 Jul 2007, at 13:35, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
...
You can get everything at once and in the same place using the
online docs:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
This manual is very excellent.
I believe you can also get it in
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 01:02, Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:12 -0500, »Q« wrote:
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've read the GRUB documentation, but still don't understand why the
following worked:
[snip grub.conf]
I would've
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:53:45 +0100, Mick wrote:
If you have some reason not to mix one OS', or distro's boot files,
kernels, etc with another, plus if you want to try a different version
of grub then you can install grub separately in the new OS partition
(instead of the MBR) and chainload
On 18 Jul 2007, at 16:00, Alan McKinnon wrote:
...
I don't know. I think the overview is pretty clear http://
www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Overview, and leads into
the remainder of the documentation quite well.
... The big stumbling block is getting people to grasp that grub
is
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:06:57 +0100, Stroller wrote:
I have in the past considered putting grub.conf on a FAT32 partition
- I'm not 101% sure that'd work but I've never tried because I never
actually saw the usefulness.
It will work, provided you call the file menu.lst, because the GRUB
On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote:
Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that?
maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining!
I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading)
---8---8
4.1.2 Load another boot loader to boot unsupported operating systems
On 7/18/07, Александър Л. Димитров [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote:
Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that?
maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining!
I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading)
---8---8
4.1.2 Load
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:30 +0200, Александър Л. Димитров wrote:
On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote:
Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that?
maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining!
I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading)
[snip]
Note
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
[snip]
I get a feel
that you are not an average person so your impressions are not valid
for them.
hahaha!! If you know who this mythical average person is, let me know
so we can pay her $$$ to test all of our software!!
;)
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Iain
On 7/19/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Note that it's usually better to refer to the info command for more
serious documentation about GNU tools in general. RMS and his guys don't
exactly seem to like manpages that much that's what they have info for.
They have their point,
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Thufir wrote:
Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that?
maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining!
The grub man pages are, ahem, skimpy. IIRC it's all of three paragraphs.
The full story is in the info pages, but the way they are written
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 14:18, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Thufir wrote:
Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that?
maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining!
The grub man pages are, ahem, skimpy. IIRC it's all of three
paragraphs.
The full
Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that?
maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining!
-Thufir
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On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:12 -0500, »Q« wrote:
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've read the GRUB documentation, but still don't understand why the
following worked:
[snip grub.conf]
I would've thought that the chainloader +1 statement would be required
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