From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>, "Colin Watson" <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:29:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D91DEA9.6020008@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D91DA91.4090108@draigBrady.com>
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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 usually at least 31 KiB),
>>
> Maybe mention the original name/reason; "DOS compatibility region"
>
>
I think this name would be misleading since one can think that one needs
it for DOS to load or that DOS would overwrite GRUB if it's installed on
the disk. Since this term is rarely used I'd prefer to omit it.
> I'll link to this node from http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/
> when it appears on line.
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig.
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-29 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-29 12:40 [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation Colin Watson
2011-03-29 13:11 ` Pádraig Brady
2011-03-29 13:29 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2011-03-29 15:12 ` Colin Watson
2011-03-30 15:10 ` Pádraig Brady
2011-03-29 16:26 ` richardvoigt
2011-03-30 19:00 ` Barry Jackson
2011-03-30 19:08 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-30 19:52 ` Colin Watson
2011-03-31 8:38 ` Barry Jackson
2011-04-12 12:33 ` Colin Watson
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