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 1IB8Va-00018s-O3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:19:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6ICIF3A011384; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:18:15 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6ICE556007147 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:14:06 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B14C83455 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:26:05 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OcSd4Lot-iOp for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:25:59 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id B437783421 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:25:59 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:15:54 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:18:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <30vvm4-331.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net> In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707181418.44381.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jul 2007 12:15:54.0540 (UTC) FILETIME=[63A29EC0:01C7C935] X-Archives-Salt: 71e63dc5-30d2-41f1-a11e-b6a7d990784c X-Archives-Hash: 626602899c4c2d53e1e1129273dc23ea On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Thufir wrote: > Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? > maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! The grub man pages are, ahem, skimpy. IIRC it's all of three paragraphs. The full story is in the info pages, but the way they are written pretty much requires that you do go through all of it in sequence. And they are also written with the assumption that the reader understands the confines a boot loader has to work in. alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list