Author: bdubbs
Date: 2009-11-29 21:30:48 -0700 (Sun, 29 Nov 2009)
New Revision: 9122
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter08/grub.xml
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
Log:
Provided more information about grub configuration.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2009-11-28 21:53:14 UTC (rev 9121)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2009-11-30 04:30:48 UTC (rev 9122)
@@ -38,11 +38,22 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>2009-11-29</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] Provided more information about grub
+ configuration.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>2009-11-24</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>[bdubbs] Separate standards page and rationale page
- and reformat. Provided more information about packages
+ <para>[bdubbs] Create separate standards and rationale pages
+ and reformated. Provided more information about packages
needed to satisfy LSB.
</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter08/grub.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter08/grub.xml 2009-11-28 21:53:14 UTC (rev 9121)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter08/grub.xml 2009-11-30 04:30:48 UTC (rev 9122)
@@ -193,8 +193,12 @@
<para>Update the MBR with:</para>
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grub-setup</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grub-setup
'<DEVICE>'</userinput></screen>
+ <para>Change the DEVICE above to your boot disk, normally '(hd0)' or
/dev/sda.
+ If using (hd0) be sure to escape the parentheses with backslashes or single
+ quotes to prevent the shell from interpreting them as a sub-shell.</para>
+
<para>This program uses the following defaults and are correct if you did
not
deviate from the instructions above:</para>
@@ -203,9 +207,17 @@
<listitem><para>core image - core.img </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>directory - /boot/grub</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>device map - device.map</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>root device - guessed </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>default root setting - guessed</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+ <note><para>The root setting is the default value if a 'set root'
+ instruction is not found in grub.cfg. This is the partition that is
+ searched for the kernel and other supporting files. It is different from
+ the 'root=' parameter on the 'linux' line in the configuration line. The
+ later is the partition the kernel mounts as '/'. In the example grub.cfg
+ above, both values point to /dev/sda2, but if there is a separate boot
+ partition, they will be different.</para></note>
+
</sect2>
</sect1>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2009-11-28 21:53:14 UTC (rev 9121)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2009-11-30 04:30:48 UTC (rev 9122)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20091124">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "November 24, 2009">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20091129">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "November 29, 2009">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "1999-2009"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not
– -->
<!ENTITY milestone "7.0">
<!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or
"x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
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