[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 &#8212; 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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