Davidson wrote on 2/1/26 1:14 PM:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2026, D. R. Evans wrote:
[big snip]
Several times over the past couple of weeks I have found myself longing for a
good old-fashioned O'Reilly book on GRUB (for which the cover would be
obvious :-) ), but it seems that there was never such a thing -- and in any
case it would be long out of date now. And that kind of detailed book
dedicated to a relatively small aspect of Linux it seems is no longer
produced or updated.
FWIW, there is
$ info grub
which on my system presents at least several hours of interesting
reading, apparently installed by the grub2-common package.
True; but, I am afraid, hardly the same as a proper old-fashioned O'Reilly
fully-indexed book.
I tend to find that, on most subjects: i) man contains too little information;
ii) info contains an overwhelming amount of information presented in a way
that makes it too difficult to find the solution to the problem that one is
trying to solve. (And, to be honest, I find reading from a screen far less
efficient and easy than reading a book; but perhaps that just me).
Thanks to everyone who tried to help. It's quite frustrating that I can't
change the subject to include "SOLVED", but I suppose that's life.
It has been an interesting thread to follow (I haven't yet had time to
pay it the attention I would like).
I've at least learned a lot. I suspect the same is true of others.
Doc
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