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 1IBXZ5-00067I-Sd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:05:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6JBfge9002977; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:41:42 GMT Received: from gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.163.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6JBb55J030283 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:37:05 GMT Received: by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix, from userid 8) id F0FAA3246B4; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:18:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (unknown [134.76.161.221]) by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7582D3246B3 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:18:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:36:56 +0200 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader Message-Id: <20070719133656.8527f513.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <1184804758.7158.47.camel@orpheus> References: <30vvm4-331.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net> <20070718133043.GA6012@brmbr.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> <1184804758.7158.47.camel@orpheus> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.3 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i586-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DATE_IN_PAST_96_XX autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Archives-Salt: e30a63a8-ebfe-4d39-b59e-1f972b2ea017 X-Archives-Hash: a440aabffffc22fdbeecee54fdf0cce4 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---- The full documentation for grub is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and grub programs are properly installed at your site, the command info grub should give you access to the complete manual. ----snip---- But looking at grub(8), it seems someone was faster. SCNR. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list