The following mail was sent to www@gentoo.org: """ I am the official maintainer of GNU GRUB, and I'd like to talk about the handbook on www.gentoo.org. In this page: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9 you give information on how to make use of GRUB. But I see some important problems there. One of them is that it has no pointer to the official site of GNU GRUB, the GRUB manual or the GRUB FAQ. We see many Gentoo users asking questions without reading the manual, and I'm personally wondering if this can be solved if you put some links to more detailed information and encourage users to read the manual before asking. Here are the resources: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/ Another problem is that it recommends using the grub shell directly rather than grub-install. As written in the manual, we cannot recommend this, because it can produce bad consequences due to disk cache problems in Linux. We have implemented many workarounds in the script grub-install, and we hope you will utilize them to overcome difficulties in installing a boot loader. If you don't want to use grub-install for some reason, please implement the same workarounds in the handbook or your own script. Otherwise, we get many bug reports about problems that we have already solved with a lot of effort. Since Gentoo is a volunteer-based project as well as GRUB, I bet that you could understand my point, and we would be able to help each other. If you have any question or problem, feel free to send e-mail to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. Thanks, Okuji """ I'll apply the necessary patches to hb-install-x86-bootloader.xml and hb-install-amd64-bootloader.xml to fix this.
Created attachment 28718 [details, diff] Patch to hb-install-{x86,amd64}-bootloader.xml This patch is applicable to both files. I'll commit those in a few hours unless there are any objections.
Committed to CVS.
