Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-10 Thread Baho Utot
On 08/09/2012 10:42 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: [putolin] but the easier it is to follow the trail, the better. That's what bread crumbs are for

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-09 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/05/2012 11:02 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: The whole point is, if you're reading the install guide you don't need any information in the beginners guide. At the very beginning of each of those guides the intended audiences are described. I get that, and I do appreciate the concise nature of

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-09 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:56 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: On 08/05/2012 11:02 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: The whole point is, if you're reading the install guide you don't need any information in the beginners guide. At the very beginning of each of those guides the

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-09 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:56:39 -0500 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: On 08/05/2012 11:02 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: The whole point is, if you're reading the install guide you don't need any information in the beginners guide. At the very beginning of each of those

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-09 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/09/2012 08:43 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:56 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: On 08/05/2012 11:02 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: The whole point is, if you're reading the install guide you don't need any information in the beginners guide. At the

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-09 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:42 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 08:43 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:56 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: On 08/05/2012 11:02 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: The whole point is, if you're

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-08 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/07/2012 06:51 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Another problem documented is that cfdisk makes a system incompatible for grub2 installation since grub2 expects everything to start at sector 2048 and cfdisk starts everything at sector 63. Hmm..., I don't know if that bothered grub2. I used

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-08 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:14:08PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/07/2012 06:51 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Another problem documented is that cfdisk makes a system incompatible for grub2 installation since grub2 expects everything to start at sector 2048 and cfdisk starts everything at

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-07 Thread Mauro Santos
On 06-08-2012 23:20, David C. Rankin wrote: I noticed that too. Also, if you just follow the beginners guide without using the grub2 page, you end up installing grub2 wrong because the beginners guide omits the --target flag for grub-install. There should be links to:

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Another problem documented is that cfdisk makes a system incompatible for grub2 installation since grub2 expects everything to start at sector 2048 and cfdisk starts everything at sector 63. On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Mauro Santos wrote: On 06-08-2012 23:20, David C. Rankin wrote: I noticed that

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-06 Thread David C. Rankin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/05/2012 08:41 PM, Daniel Wallace wrote: In my opinion the beginners guide is a mess, and should be cleaned up by pointing to the actual pages about the stuff that it is refering to and only include a few things about outliars. If you want to

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
According to beginner's guide, grub-install /dev/sda cr is the next command and mk-grubconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg cr is the next command after that. On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, One place the Installation_Guide could be improved is regarding the bootloader

Re: [arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

2012-08-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
The whole point is, if you're reading the install guide you don't need any information in the beginners guide. At the very beginning of each of those guides the intended audiences are described. On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/05/2012 06:10 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: