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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.
-- 
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.

		-- Homer Simpson
		   There's No Disgrace Like Home

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-19 15:13 UTC|newest]

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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-19  7:14 burlingk
2007-07-19  6:25 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

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