A user sent this report about the grub documentation to the GNU webmasters. Passing it on for your consideration.
Best, karl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:51:06 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, the old doc was not the best structured document but at least it was fairly complete. I was just trying to find some info that was in the old doc about MBR in the new doc and became aware of how full of holes and FIXMES it is. Why has the old doc be relegated to some off-site backwater before the new doc is in a complete state? http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/technical.html In this instance I was looking for a comment on the size of MBR >> At the start of the process, the BIOS loads the first block off of the boot disk (floppy or hard drive), 512 bytes in size. This one block must be capable of performing all the functions necessary to start up the system, or handing off to another program. On a hard disk, at least 64 bytes are reserved for a partition table, therefore unusable. >> The 64 bytes comment is now missing. please do not remove the old version. Much of the technical section was much more complete. It would be good to review that since I think some good info has been praecied out. best regards. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
