Dan McGhee wrote: > On 11/09/2013 10:49 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Dan McGhee wrote: >>> I know I'm top-posting and ask for forgiveness. Please consider this a >>> preface to my responses to what Bruce offered. And thanks, Bruce, for >>> your thoughts. I am frustrated by not being able to find documentation >>> about what the grub modules do--and now for many of the variables grub >>> uses. A simple "this does that" would suffice. >> Does this help? >> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html >> >> -- Bruce > Thanks, Bruce, but no. It's the same one I have. For example, Section > 3.4 might lead someone to believe that the discussion tells how to > install GRUB in a UEFI environment since it talks about using GPT. I > know it's under BIOS installation. I think it's a little misleading. > > GRUB2, as I have learned in the last week-and-a-half, has much more > capability than what is documented in that manual. As another example in > the section about how grub names things, there's not discussion of > designating devices as in (hd0,3) as (hd0,gpt3). > > Once again, I'm not ranting or blaming. I know that developers develop > and don't have the time or want to write. Additionally, the changes, > which are starting to be limiting, in UEFI firmware and structure are > happening rapidly. > > Also, I'm not saying that the manual is not helpful. It just doesn't go > far enough for me. An example of this is, as I was just perusing it to > get ready to answer you, I found a couple of paragraphs about the > embedded config file in the image and the need to search for a UUID to > get to "root." That bears further examination for me a little later.
You might get more help at the help-grub mailing list: http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=grub -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
