Re: Partnew command parameters documented incorrectly

[Jeroen Dekkers]

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  <address@hidden>

        * 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
 


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Jeroen Dekkers