From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MA0qX-0003Is-2k for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:06:01 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MA0qV-0003IZ-6w for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:05:59 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MA0qP-0003Hk-U3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:05:58 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43692 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MA0qP-0003Hh-RX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:05:53 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:65053) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MA0qP-0004XF-0D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 08:05:53 -0400 Received: from [85.180.39.36] (e180039036.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.39.36]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKv5w-1MA0qM3frY-0000oq; Fri, 29 May 2009 14:05:51 +0200 From: Felix Zielcke To: The development of GRUB 2 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:05:50 +0200 Message-Id: <1243598750.3544.9.camel@fz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/nUTB+BgD9XVeD9Ai6sWqeUmykdvgBkX1C8mp mtS8DJr1pAkoKcKs8UWEt3pRmoo/R7vqmT4GFrpLtDb5ZCmEtC sZIsnw9sChFKiGB1b2zLg== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: making the --no-floopy option of grub-install more descriptive 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: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:05:59 -0000 Hi, on a Debian bug report [0] someone complained that the --no-floppy option should be better documented in the man page, because it only works if device.map doestn't exist or --recheck is given and he was confused of this. But it's generated from the --help output and I'm not that sure to make it longer. Or would something like this be okay? Index: util/i386/pc/grub-install.in =================================================================== --- util/i386/pc/grub-install.in (revision 2237) +++ util/i386/pc/grub-install.in (working copy) @@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ Install GRUB on your drive. --grub-mkimage=FILE use FILE as grub-mkimage --grub-mkdevicemap=FILE use FILE as grub-mkdevicemap --grub-probe=FILE use FILE as grub-probe - --no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive + --no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive. Works only if + device.map doestn't exit or --recheck is given --recheck probe a device map even if it already exists --force install even if problems are detected [0] http://bugs.debian.org/530848 -- Felix Zielcke