Grub Manual

[Karl Larsen]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>    Back a few years ago I did teach classes at Stanford U and NMSU 
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> I once had a lecturer who was so poor that the students (and it was 
> quite a small class, 20 or so professionals) came close to revolting.
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>> later. I did my homework and was ahead of all my students. I kind of 
>> wonder about rday since he has told me there is only one root. Made a 
>> BFD of it too.
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> You should do your homework now, and make a proper effort at 
> understanding the existing GRUB documentation. It may be difficult to 
> understand (though I don't find it so), programmers are notoriously 
> poor at writing documentation, but it is written by someone who knows 
> the topic. Some points may lack clarity, perhaps because the author 
> expects to reader to know more than you already do, but I don't think 
> it likely to have many errors.
    There are no errors I found, unless it might be the use of two root= 
things that are not well defined in every boot sequence of Linux.


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> Be aware that this version of grub is not being enhanced, the authors 
> have decided the approach is wrong and have started again. It's 
> unlikely they would add your contributions to the existing documentation.
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    Since I have no idea how it will be enhanced my stuff might not even 
apply any more. That would be a real enhancement.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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