Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-04-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:38:37AM +0100, Barry Jackson wrote: > I was being a bit dim - or maybe it was late. > I had not grasped the concept of the 'normal' command which was not > included in the list of available commands. Good point. I've added brief documentation for this now. http://www

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-31 Thread Barry Jackson
On 30/03/11 20:52, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:00:46PM +0100, Barry Jackson wrote: On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: With http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition being down at the moment, I went to look at what corresponding documentation there was in the manual...

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:00:46PM +0100, Barry Jackson wrote: > On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: > >With http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition being down at the moment, > >I went to look at what corresponding documentation there was in the > >manual. > > One question that I cann

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-30 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 30.03.2011 21:00, Barry Jackson wrote: > On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: >> With http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition being down at the moment, >> I went to look at what corresponding documentation there was in the >> manual. > > One question that I cannot find an answer for

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-30 Thread Barry Jackson
On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: With http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition being down at the moment, I went to look at what corresponding documentation there was in the manual. One question that I cannot find an answer for in the manual here :- 18.1 GRUB only offers a rescue

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 29/03/11 16:12, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:11:45PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: >>> +(called by >>> +various names, such as the "boot track", "MBR gap", or "embedding area", >>> and >>> +which is usually at least 31 KiB), >> >> Mayb

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
> -@strong{Caution:} Be very careful which partition you select!  When GRUB > -finds a BIOS Boot Partition during installation, it will automatically > -overwrite part of it.  Make sure that the partition does not contain any > -other data. +@xref{BIOS installation}, for details on where the core i

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
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 b

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 29.03.2011 15:11, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: > >> +@node BIOS installation >> +@section BIOS installation >> > This is a good summary. > > >> +(called by >> +various names, such as the "boot track", "MBR gap", or "embedding area", and >> +which is us

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: > +@node BIOS installation > +@section BIOS installation This is a good summary. > +(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

[PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
With http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition being down at the moment, I went to look at what corresponding documentation there was in the manual. There actually was some, written variously by Vladimir and me, but I felt that it could use a bit of reorganisation, and being put into a form where