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From: | Bruce Dubbs |
Subject: | Re: Full documentation for GRUB2 |
Date: | Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:19:49 -0500 |
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Chris Murphy wrote:
On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Patrick Strasser wrote:Moreover googling is no alternative to proper documentation. I'dlike to contribute examples that I found to the grub docs, but the manual gives no hint how to do so... ;-)It's the developers task and skill to document features.I agree, but from this outsider's perspective, it's abundantly clearthe developers have totally abdicated on this.
That's a bit harsh. The devs are a very small group and the technical details are vast. There is some effort going on to do the documentation, but it takes time. It is only a .98 release right now which means it is under development. To describe what GRUB2 does will take a moderate size book.
The entire project is a mini-operating system. I personally don't really think a lot of the bells and whistles (e.g. scripting, graphics) are needed for something that most users will look at for 5 seconds as they boot (if at all).
My own grub.cfg looks like: ### grub.cfg set default=0 set timeout=5 insmod ext2 set root=(hd0,1) menuentry "LFS SVN 20110204, Linux 2.6.37" { linux /linux-2.6.37 root=/dev/sda14 ro } menuentry "LFS SVN 20100627, Linux 2.6.34-label" { linux /linux-2.6.34 root=LABEL=lfs-svn ro }and it works fine. On the other hand, I don't do Windows, BSD, MAC, serial IO for boot, nfs boot, tftp boot, a boot sector on raid, EFI, initrd, grub-mkconfig, or a myriad of other things that GRUB supports.
-- Bruce
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