Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

[Bruce Dubbs]

Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Patrick Strasser wrote:
> > Moreover googling is no alternative to proper documentation. I'd
> > like to contribute examples that I found to the grub docs, but the 
> > manual gives no hint how to do so... ;-)
>
> > It's the developers task and skill to document features.
>
> I agree, but from this outsider's perspective, it's abundantly clear
> the developers have totally abdicated on this. 

That's a bit harsh.  The devs are a very small group and the technical 
details are vast.  There is some effort going on to do the 
documentation, but it takes time.  It is only a .98 release right now 
which means it is under development.  To describe what GRUB2 does will 
take a moderate size book.

The entire project is a mini-operating system.  I personally don't 
really think a lot of the bells and whistles (e.g. scripting, graphics) 
are needed for something that most users will look at for 5 seconds as 
they boot (if at all).

My own grub.cfg looks like:

### grub.cfg
set default=0
set timeout=5

insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)

menuentry "LFS SVN 20110204, Linux 2.6.37" {
        linux   /linux-2.6.37 root=/dev/sda14 ro
}

menuentry "LFS SVN 20100627, Linux 2.6.34-label" {
        linux   /linux-2.6.34 root=LABEL=lfs-svn ro
}

and it works fine.  On the other hand, I don't do Windows, BSD, MAC, 
serial IO for boot, nfs boot, tftp boot, a boot sector on raid, EFI, 
initrd, grub-mkconfig, or a myriad of other things that GRUB supports.

  -- Bruce