On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 08:04:14PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> > Perhaps. The output of `help geometry' doesn't indicate so.
>
> Don't rely on the online help very much. It can help you only to
> remind yourself of something.
When you're stuck without access to your partition where the real
documentation is, you rely on the included online help. A warning should
be added to the online help screens that they aren't authoritive.
> > GRUB doesn't do anything with the kernel, it just `invokes' it. It is
> > however used to boot from disk drives.
>
> I disagree. Whether you think it just invokes a kernel or not, a
> boot loader is very related to kernels. The job is mainly to "boot a
> kernel" instead of "manage a disk". Who can imagine that a boot loader
> is documented in a disk management section?
I didn't say it isn't related to kernels. It is however more related to
disks than to kernels. IME when you refer to a bootloader, you also make a
relation to terms like `boot sector', `hard drive' (or floppy et al), or
`operating system'; thus the section "Kernel" is not fully qualified, (since
GRUB can chain-load other OS kernels) and IMHO less appropriate than "Disk
management".
Anyway, if you don't agree with "Disk management", perhaps changing to some
other term would be better? For example "Booting"?
>From WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]:
boot
[...]
2: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial
processes; "boot your computer" [syn: {reboot}, {bring up}]
That would be simple and straightforward.
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