From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:32:49 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184853769.13416.34.camel@orpheus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070719133656.8527f513.hilse@web.de>
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
> <iaindb@netspace.net.au> 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 informative, and quite misleading. Instead, is
> > should say either nothing but "refer to info pages"; or it should be
> > the same as the info pages...
>
> Yeah, like a short synopsis and then a clear reference, let's say along
> the lines of
> ----snip----
[snip]
> But looking at grub(8), it seems someone was faster. SCNR.
OK, I'm an idiot. I blabbed off at `man grub` without actually looking
at it... I thought it said something along the lines of the online grub
manual quoted by the OP...
back to my hole.
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
You know, Moe, my mom once said something that really stuck with me. She
said, `Homer, you're a big disappointment,' and, God bless her soul, she
was really onto something.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 22:50 [gentoo-user] grub chainloader Thufir
2007-07-17 23:12 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2007-07-17 23:51 ` Thufir
2007-07-18 12:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-07-18 12:35 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-07-18 14:20 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 15:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-07-18 16:06 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 17:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-07-19 7:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-07-19 0:31 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-07-18 13:30 ` Александър Л. Димитров
2007-07-18 19:35 ` Thufir
2007-07-19 0:25 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-07-19 0:51 ` Thufir
2007-07-19 11:36 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-07-19 14:02 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2007-07-18 0:02 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-07-18 6:53 ` Mick
2007-07-18 15:36 ` Neil Bothwick
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2007-07-19 7:14 burlingk
2007-07-19 6:25 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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