From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1L3CGw-0001sk-6P for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:20:50 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3CGt-0001rp-VS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:20:48 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3CGs-0001rA-CD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:20:47 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43537 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3CGs-0001r2-0K for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:20:46 -0500 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:6352) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L3CGr-0006jO-OK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:20:46 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO smtprelay1.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.111]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 20 Nov 2008 11:20:43 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.21] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by smtprelay1.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 676E334C6D for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:20:42 -0500 (EST) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <511f47f50811200510w3596865ei4188225038f28b8a@mail.gmail.com> References: <511f47f50811190123m70b70b96l7bfb74f0fd20bcd1@mail.gmail.com> <511f47f50811190124j3b839a3bu9acd011e510bde10@mail.gmail.com> <511f47f50811200510w3596865ei4188225038f28b8a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:20:42 -0500 Message-Id: <1227198042.10629.6.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [OT] made a blog post about grub 1.96+20080724 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:20:48 -0000 On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 18:40 +0530, shirish wrote: > Hi all, > Made it to the level I could understand > > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/jaunty-and-grub2/#more-269 > > There are 2 issues though which I hope came out as well :- > > a. There is absolute lack of documentation about how and what a user > is supposed to do. > b. This should not be how an end-user should be doing this. I hope > there is an emergence of a single or multiple GUI tools which lets > end-users touch the /etc/init.d/grub and /etc/default/grub files and > update the boot-loader. > > Suggestions, improvements are invited :) I believe blog posts are not supposed to be reviewed and refined, especially by the developers. Their time would be better spent on writing documentation and improving the code. If you want to participate in the documentation efforts, I suggest that you have a look at the GRUB wiki: http://grub.enbug.org/ -- Regards, Pavel Roskin