From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:35:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707181435.29564.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707181418.44381.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 14:18, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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.
You can get everything at once and in the same place using the online
docs:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
> And they are also written with the assumption that the reader
> understands the confines a boot loader has to work in.
This is still true with the online docs of course, since the docs are
essentially the same.
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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 [this message]
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
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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