Changeset 312e7dd

Timestamp:

11/30/2009 04:30:48 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

5e37471

Parents:

f4e157a

Message:

Provided more information about grub configuration.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9122 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter08/grub.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• general.ent (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -39 +39 @@
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>2009-11-29</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] Provided more information about grub
+          configuration.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>2009-11-24</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] Separate standards page and rationale page
-          and reformat.  Provided more information about packages
+          <para>[bdubbs] Create separate standards and rationale pages
+          and reformated.  Provided more information about packages
           needed to satisfy LSB.
           </para>

chapter08/grub.xml

@@ -194 +194 @@
     <para>Update the MBR with:</para>
 
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grub-setup</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grub-setup '&lt;DEVICE&gt;'</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Change the DEVICE above to your boot disk, normally '(hd0)' or /dev/sda.  
+    If using (hd0) be sure to escape the parentheses with backslashes or single
+    quotes to prevent the shell from interpreting them as a sub-shell.</para>
 
     <para>This program uses the following defaults and are correct if you did not
@@ -204 +208 @@
       <listitem><para>directory   - /boot/grub</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para>device map  - device.map</para></listitem>
-      <listitem><para>root device - guessed   </para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para>default root setting - guessed</para></listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
+   <note><para>The root setting is the default value if a 'set root'
+   instruction is not found in grub.cfg.  This is the partition that is
+   searched for the kernel and other supporting files.  It is different from
+   the 'root=' parameter on the 'linux' line in the configuration line.  The
+   later is the partition the kernel mounts as '/'.  In the example grub.cfg
+   above, both values point to /dev/sda2, but if there is a separate boot
+   partition, they will be different.</para></note>
+
    </sect2>
 

general.ent

@@ -1 @@
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20091124">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "November 24, 2009">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20091129">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "November 29, 2009">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "1999-2009"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
 <!ENTITY milestone "7.0">