Chris Murphy wrote:
On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Patrick Strasser wrote:
Moreover googling is no alternative to proper documentation. I'd
like to contribute examples that I found to the grub docs, but the
manual gives no hint how to do so... ;-)
It's the developers task and skill to document features.
I agree, but from this outsider's perspective, it's abundantly clear
the developers have totally abdicated on this.
That's a bit harsh. The devs are a very small group and the technical
details are vast. There is some effort going on to do the
documentation, but it takes time. It is only a .98 release right now
which means it is under development. To describe what GRUB2 does will
take a moderate size book.
The entire project is a mini-operating system. I personally don't
really think a lot of the bells and whistles (e.g. scripting, graphics)
are needed for something that most users will look at for 5 seconds as
they boot (if at all).
My own grub.cfg looks like:
### grub.cfg
set default=0
set timeout=5
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
menuentry "LFS SVN 20110204, Linux 2.6.37" {
linux /linux-2.6.37 root=/dev/sda14 ro
}
menuentry "LFS SVN 20100627, Linux 2.6.34-label" {
linux /linux-2.6.34 root=LABEL=lfs-svn ro
}
and it works fine. On the other hand, I don't do Windows, BSD, MAC,
serial IO for boot, nfs boot, tftp boot, a boot sector on raid, EFI,
initrd, grub-mkconfig, or a myriad of other things that GRUB supports.
-- Bruce
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