On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:53:32 -0500 [email protected] wrote: > --- > doc/official_installation_guide_en | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------- > 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/doc/official_installation_guide_en > b/doc/official_installation_guide_en > index d73ed8e..69578f2 100644 > --- a/doc/official_installation_guide_en > +++ b/doc/official_installation_guide_en > @@ -180,11 +180,9 @@ Make sure your BIOS is set in a way to allow booting > from your CD-ROM or USB > device. > Reboot your computer with the Arch Linux Installation CD in the drive > or the USB stick plugged in the port. Once the installation medium has > started > -booting you will see the Arch Linux logo and a grub menu waiting for your > +booting you will see the Arch Linux logo and an Isolinux menu waiting for > your > selection. > Most likely you can just hit enter at this point. > -If Grub hangs, you're one of the unlucky few whose CD-rom drive doesn't work > -with grub and you should try the isolinux image.
these two changes have nothing to do with the newly introduced syslinux support. these belong in a seprate bugfix commit (where the bug is that this should have been added when we switched to syslinux in archiso) > > ### Post-boot > At the end of the boot procedure, you should be at a login prompt with some > @@ -460,7 +458,9 @@ hard disk preparations need to be undone. > #### Select Packages > > Select Packages will let you select the packages you wish to install from the > -CD, USB or your NET mirror. You have the opportunity to specify whole package > +CD, USB or your NET mirror. First, you are prompted to select a bootloader. > Your > +choice will install the appropriate bootloader package and will be used for > the > +"Install Bootloader" stage. You now have the opportunity to specify whole > package > groups from which you'd generally like to install packages, then fine-tune > your coarse selection by (de)selecting individual packages from the groups > you > have chosen using the space bar. It is recommended that you install all the > @@ -771,25 +771,30 @@ changes you made in mkinitcpio.conf. "Your choice will install a package" is not very well phrased. How about: "First, you are prompted to select a bootloader package. (this is the bootloader you will be configuring later on in the "Install Bootloader" stage). After this you can select package groups from which (...)" > > #### Install Bootloader > > -Install Bootloader will install a bootloader on your hard drive, either GRUB > -or NONE in case you have a bootloader already installed and want to use that > -one instead. If you choose to install GRUB, the setup script will want you to > +Install Bootloader will install how about "install and help you configure" ? >the bootloader that you selected in the "Select > +Source" Not "Select source". "Select packages". > +stage on your hard drive. If you skipped selecting a bootloader, no > +bootloader will be installed. Otherwise, the setup script will want you to > examine the appropriate configuration file to confirm the proper settings. > > - > **/boot/grub/menu.lst** > +**/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg** > + > +An editor will open, allowing you to edit the appropriate bootloader > +configuration file. You should check and modify this file to accommodate your > +boot setup. The installer will have pre-populated this file using UUID > entries I would leave out the 'using UUID entries'. depending on the filesystem selection method used, this can also be regular devicefiles or by label, just don't mention it imho. > +which you may have to change in the same cases you'd need to change them in > your > +fstab. how about "may have to change if you also needed to make changes to your fstab" > + > +Syslinux: > +After checking your bootloader configuration for correctness, you'll be > asked to > +allow the installer to Set the Boot Flag and install the Syslinux MBR. > > -You should check and modify this file to accommodate your boot setup if you > -want to use GRUB, otherwise you will have to modify your existing > bootloader's > -configuration file. The installer will have pre-populated this file using > UUID > -entries which you may have to change in the same cases you'd need to change > -them in your fstab. > +Grub: > > After checking your bootloader configuration for correctness, you'll be > -prompted for a partition to install the loader to. Unless you're using yet > -another boot loader, you should install GRUB to the MBR of the installation > -disk, which is usually represented by the appropriate device name without a > -number suffix. > +prompted for a disk to install the loader to. You should install GRUB to the > MBR > +of the installation disk, which is usually represented by the appropriate > device > +name without a number suffix. meh, I don't think this is the right place to educate the user on the difference between devicefiles for disks and for partitions. I would leave out the "which is..." part. Dieter
