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From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:31:17
Message-Id: 200707181435.29564.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader by Alan McKinnon
1 On Wednesday 18 July 2007 14:18, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Thufir wrote:
4 > > Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that?
5 > > maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining!
6 >
7 > The grub man pages are, ahem, skimpy. IIRC it's all of three
8 > paragraphs.
9 >
10 > The full story is in the info pages, but the way they are written
11 > pretty much requires that you do go through all of it in sequence.
12
13 You can get everything at once and in the same place using the online
14 docs:
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16 http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
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19 > And they are also written with the assumption that the reader
20 > understands the confines a boot loader has to work in.
21
22 This is still true with the online docs of course, since the docs are
23 essentially the same.
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