From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IBXgp-0002NE-54 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:13:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6JE77p7029349; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:07:07 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out4.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.77]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6JE2Mgu023617 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:02:23 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.100] (dsl-203-113-239-78.SA.netspace.net.au [203.113.239.78]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE12D37658E for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:02:26 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20070719133656.8527f513.hilse@web.de> References: <30vvm4-331.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net> <20070718133043.GA6012@brmbr.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> <1184804758.7158.47.camel@orpheus> <20070719133656.8527f513.hilse@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:32:49 +0930 Message-Id: <1184853769.13416.34.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 489fddc5-0864-44f5-a2fe-6769f9229343 X-Archives-Hash: 2a223670532398d69e1ff4206c3c3465 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 > 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 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list