Re: FTDI serial console support?

2018-05-19 Thread Andrew Worsley
On 19 May 2018 at 00:32, Petter Gustad wrote: > From: Daniel Kiper > Subject: Re: FTDI serial console support? > Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 13:55:55 +0200 > >> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 01:01:41PM +0200, Petter Gustad wrote: >>> From: Daniel Kiper >>> Subject: Re: FTDI serial console support? >>> Date

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add --debug to set -x for a few grub commands

2016-05-29 Thread Andrew Worsley
On 29 May 2016 at 16:34, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > What is advantage compared with running scripts with bash -x script name ? > For a naive user they may not even realise it is a shell script or that the running it via bash -x option will give a valuable debug output. I didn't until

[PATCH 1/2] Extend grub-install usage information in man page

2016-05-28 Thread Andrew Worsley
The usage information appears in it's generated man page. The current usage is very brief and results in a very inadequate man page. This adds a very minimal additional detail useful for novice and causal users. --- util/grub-install.c | 24 +--- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+

[PATCH 2/2] Add --debug to set -x for a few grub commands

2016-05-28 Thread Andrew Worsley
--- util/grub-kbdcomp.in | 2 ++ util/grub-mkconfig.in| 2 ++ util/grub-reboot.in | 2 ++ util/grub-set-default.in | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/util/grub-kbdcomp.in b/util/grub-kbdcomp.in index a15ec24..74a3ffd 100644 --- a/util/grub-kbdcomp.in +++ b/util/gru

[PATCH] Add a concise summary of grub-install to it's usage information

2016-05-07 Thread Andrew Worsley
Example patch grub-install - This is the sort of change I am proposing. I am not sure if this will survive gmail mangling but comments welcome as this is just a proposal for feed back. Andrew This usage information will appear in it's generated man file and make it a lot more informative --- uti

Re: man page improvements

2016-05-04 Thread Andrew Worsley
On 5 May 2016 at 13:38, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > ​ > > Actually I was sure man pages do contain reference to info, that is what > help2man normally generates. When I build it myself I have > >The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a > Texinfo manual. If the >

Re: man page improvements

2016-05-04 Thread Andrew Worsley
Thank-you for your reply. I will try to follow your advice and not make a general man page although I think it would help. On 3 May 2016 at 16:28, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > 30.04.2016 12:48, Andrew Worsley пишет: > ​... > > > So not wanting to waste my time or other people I t

man page improvements

2016-04-30 Thread Andrew Worsley
I would like to improve the man pages as they are very brief and not that helpful for in-experienced users who may be trying to do simple recoveries or setup from a recovery disk. I have discovered that the manual pages are auto-generated via help2man from the command usage information. So not wa