On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 06:36:36PM -0500, Walt Neubauer wrote: > The documentation I was able to find indicated that the partnew took the > beginning and end sectors as parameters. That gave really odd results, but > using the beginning sector, and the number of sectors did the trick.
This has been fixed in grub 0.94. I spotted a small inconsistency however. The patch below fixes that. Okuji, is it OK to commit? 2004-02-28 Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * docs/grub.texi (partnew): Change @var{to} to @var{len}. Index: docs/grub.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/grub/grub/docs/grub.texi,v retrieving revision 1.75 diff -u -p -r1.75 grub.texi --- docs/grub.texi 18 Feb 2004 22:09:59 -0000 1.75 +++ docs/grub.texi 28 Feb 2004 10:59:18 -0000 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ @setchapternewpage off @ifinfo -Copyright @copyright{} 1999,2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright @copyright{} 1999,2000,2001,2002,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ into another language, under the above c @c The following two commands start the copyright page. @page @vskip 0pt plus 1filll -Copyright @copyright{} 1999,2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright @copyright{} 1999,2000,2001,2002,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice @@ -2124,7 +2124,7 @@ it is disabled. If no argument is given, Create a new primary partition. @var{part} is a partition specification in GRUB syntax (@pxref{Naming convention}); @var{type} is the partition type and must be a number in the range @code{0-0xff}; @var{from} is -the starting address and @var{to} is the length, both in sector units. +the starting address and @var{len} is the length, both in sector units. @end deffn -- Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub