On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Treutwein Bernhard <bernhard.treutw...@verwaltung.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > Hi Bill & Robert, > > [...] >> > Is there some complete official documentation of GRUB2, or is GRUB2 full >> > documentation only in source code?;-) >> >> I think the Grub2 developers would welcome volunteers to help write >> documentation. > > this is kind of a hen & egg problem. > > I would love to help improving the documentation (as I did already for > Grub Legacy), but I have no idea where to start. Currently I see that > the "official" Grub Manual is in a difficult state. It appears to me > that it is a copy of the Grub Legacy manual, where some parts are > updated others are plainly wrong (due to being only copied), e.g. > the remark in the second paragraph of chapter 3 Installation > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Installation > where it is stated that you could install grub by running grub > itself from a floppy, which isn't possible with Grub 2 anymore. > > I have no idea how I can find out how to use modules where I > have to guess how to use them. There was a nice remark on > by phcoder on the request list that there are usb mass storage > and uhci & ehci modules, which I tried and I was able to confirm > that insmod'ing uhci.mod and usbms.mod on a system, which is not > able to boot via bios from usb, enabled this system to boot > from usb by chainloading (usb0)+1. But it is very time consuming > and frustrating to experiment with different modules just for > documentation. > > How can I find out more information about the modules?
The best way to find out information is probably to ask in #grub on irc.freenode.net. If nobody is around (or you prefer email) then ask specific questions on grub-devel (since this is an effort to develop better documentation rather than simple end user support which would be more appropriate for help-grub). Any contribution to the documentation is extremely welcome and I'd personally love to help so you may ping me (Jordan_U) in #grub at any time if you have a question. > > Is digging into the source an option, is documentation available > there in comments? I was not able to browse source in Savannah's > Bazaar since this option is apparently broken? You can browse the source online via the launchpad mirror: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/grub/grub2-bzr/files . -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel