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Maxim Kammerer posted on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:31:53 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 18:07, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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>> So, my question to the community: what level of documentation do we |
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>> want to put in the handbook? |
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> I think that the EFI usecase should be well-documented, since EFI is the |
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> reason that many users migrate to GRUB 2. |
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Currently, you're right. But consider that we're talking about unmasking |
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grub2 to ~arch and ultimately to stable, at which point it should be in |
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the handbook and all x86 and amd64 users will be getting it, that won't |
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remain the case forever. |
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>> Is there any other issue with grub:2 that would keep me from unmasking |
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>> (adding keywords) on x86 and amd64? I plan on waiting for the 2.00 |
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>> release. |
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> Note that whereas 1.99 searches for modules in $prefix, 2.00 searches |
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> for them in $prefix/<arch>. |
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FWIW, the 2.00 betas haven't been entirely smooth for me. beta0 was |
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fine. beta1 would load to grub but would reboot when I tried to boot a |
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kernel, so I masked it. beta2 is getting there, but there's still some |
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problems with various interactive commands. IIRC it was help cat that |
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triggered a reboot here, while cat --help (or was it cat -h?) works. But |
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with one of the other commands I tried, it was the reverse, help <command |
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worked for it, but <command> --help did nothing (at least it didn't |
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trigger a reboot as help cat did). |
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Assuming those sorts of issues are gone by 2.00 release, it should be a |
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reasonable target. But I'd definitely recommend thorough testing both at |
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the maintainer level, and with an elog urging users who have manually |
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unmasked it to file any remaining bugs ASAP, before it's unmasked to |
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~arch. |
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Talking about which, should I actively pursue bug filing on it yet? With |
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gentoo, upstream, or both? If you're actively wanting those bugs now, |
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please do put an elog to that effect in the ebuild, and I'll start being |
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particular about stuff like help cat working, and filing bugs if it |
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doesn't! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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