Re: GRUB documentation in Gentoo Handbook

[Sven Vermeulen]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 09:06:58PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> One of them is that it has no pointer to the official site of GNU GRUB, 
> the GRUB manual or the GRUB FAQ. We see many Gentoo users asking 
> questions without reading the manual, and I'm personally wondering if 
> this can be solved if you put some links to more detailed information 
> and encourage users to read the manual before asking. Here are the 
> resources:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/
> 
> Another problem is that it recommends using the grub shell directly 
> rather than grub-install. As written in the manual, we cannot recommend 
> this, because it can produce bad consequences due to disk cache 
> problems in Linux. We have implemented many workarounds in the script 
> grub-install, and we hope you will utilize them to overcome 
> difficulties in installing a boot loader.

Hi Okuji,

Thanks for the feedback. I'll take a look at the GRUB manual/faq and update
the GRUB documentation in our installation instructions to use "grub-install" 
rather than the prompt method. I'll also include the links to the official
GRUB resources.

Wkr,
      Sven Vermeulen

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