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Re: GRUB documentation in Gentoo Handbook
From: |
Sven Vermeulen |
Subject: |
Re: GRUB documentation in Gentoo Handbook |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:22:15 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.6i |
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 09:06:58PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> One of them is that it has no pointer to the official site of GNU GRUB,
> the GRUB manual or the GRUB FAQ. We see many Gentoo users asking
> questions without reading the manual, and I'm personally wondering if
> this can be solved if you put some links to more detailed information
> and encourage users to read the manual before asking. Here are the
> resources:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/
>
> Another problem is that it recommends using the grub shell directly
> rather than grub-install. As written in the manual, we cannot recommend
> this, because it can produce bad consequences due to disk cache
> problems in Linux. We have implemented many workarounds in the script
> grub-install, and we hope you will utilize them to overcome
> difficulties in installing a boot loader.
Hi Okuji,
Thanks for the feedback. I'll take a look at the GRUB manual/faq and update
the GRUB documentation in our installation instructions to use "grub-install"
rather than the prompt method. I'll also include the links to the official
GRUB resources.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
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