[release-notes] Warning about GRUB user - BZ#737187
John J. McDonough
jjmcd at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 11 15:53:03 UTC 2011
commit 79028eccd5f64b0875f3748e604327847636f7d1
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at fedoraproject.org>
Date: Tue Oct 11 11:52:57 2011 -0400
Warning about GRUB user - BZ#737187
en-US/Boot.xml | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
en-US/Overview.xml | 4 ++--
en-US/Revision_History.xml | 4 +++-
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Boot.xml b/en-US/Boot.xml
index 83a79d5..84f4bf2 100644
--- a/en-US/Boot.xml
+++ b/en-US/Boot.xml
@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@
<secondary>GPT</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>
- <warning>
+ <important>
<title>New Disk Labels</title>
<para>
Manually partitioned installations may require additional steps
</para>
- </warning>
+ </important>
Starting in Fedora 16, on non-EFI x86 (32 and 64 bit) systems,
anaconda will default to creating GPT disklabels (partition
tables) instead of MSDOS disklabels. On these systems, when
@@ -69,12 +69,26 @@
<section>
<title>GRUB 2</title>
<indexterm>
- <primary>Grub</primary>
+ <primary>GRUB</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>anaconda</primary>
</indexterm>
<para>
The <package>GNU Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB)</package> receives a major update in Fedora 16. <emphasis>GRUB 2</emphasis> allows better configuration options, better support for non x86 architectures, scripting and localization support. <emphasis>GRUB 2</emphasis> has new configuration formats and files — please consult the GRUB manual for more information.
</para>
+ <para>
+ <warning>
+ <title>GRUB user required</title>
+ <para>
+ Anaconda allows for setting a GRUB password during
+ installation. With the original GRUB, only the password was
+ requested. With GRUB 2, the user is also prompted for a
+ user name. The user <command>root</command> may be used.
+ </para>
+ </warning>
+ </para>
</section>
<section>
diff --git a/en-US/Overview.xml b/en-US/Overview.xml
index 5728525..c1922ac 100644
--- a/en-US/Overview.xml
+++ b/en-US/Overview.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
<primary>pacemaker-cloud</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
- <primary>Grub</primary>
+ <primary>GRUB</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>HAL</primary>
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- A number of core system improvements including Grub 2 and the
+ A number of core system improvements including GRUB 2 and the
removal of HAL.
</para>
</listitem>
diff --git a/en-US/Revision_History.xml b/en-US/Revision_History.xml
index 48f6f67..8dc3129 100644
--- a/en-US/Revision_History.xml
+++ b/en-US/Revision_History.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@
<member>Various typos - BZ#741975</member>
<member>Better prose on systemd database handling -
BZ#743614</member>
- <member>Improved prose in setting up multiple PostgreSQL servers - BZ#743618</member>
+ <member>Improved prose in setting up multiple PostgreSQL
+ servers - BZ#743618</member>
+ <member>Warning about GRUB user - BZ#737187</member>
</simplelist>
</revdescription>
</revision>
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