On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:11:45PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: > > +@node BIOS installation > > +@section BIOS installation > > This is a good summary.
Thanks. I've incorporated some feedback from Vladimir and committed this. Vladimir and I disagreed a bit over what the traditional partition table scheme should be called. Other parts of the GRUB manual describe it as "msdos", which is also the identifier used in GNU Parted's UI; and he pointed out that MBR is also used to refer to sector 0. I'm uncomfortable with the lower case there, and I also don't like attributing the scheme to a single company and (proprietary) operating system in a GNU manual. The GNU Parted manual uses "MS-DOS" in a number of places where prose is more suitable than the identifier, although some of the documentation it should have has "moved" to the non-existent "GNU Storage Guide". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Boot_Record talks about the "MBR partition table scheme", although I haven't checked to see whether that's long-lived terminology on Wikipedia. The GPT specification uses MBR in both senses: it refers to the "MBR disk layout", and also to the MBR which may be located at LBA 0. I like this terminology because it's company- and OS-neutral, although it does require careful phrasing in order to be clear. Does anyone have preferences here? I left it as "MBR" in my commit for the time being, although there may well be scope for a rephrasing through the whole manual. > > +(called by > > +various names, such as the "boot track", "MBR gap", or "embedding area", > > and > > +which is usually at least 31 KiB), > > Maybe mention the original name/reason; "DOS compatibility region" Vladimir's reaction was that a casual reader might think "Huh? What does this have to do with compatibility". Do you have a reference for this being the original name? > I'll link to this node from http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/ > when it appears on line. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#BIOS-installation You might like to link to (or contribute to!) http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Images as well, in the context of your document. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
