Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)
On Sat 28 Jun 2014 at 10:09:28 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote:
> On Saturday, June 28, 2014 9:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote:
> > On Sat 28 Jun 2014 at 09:00:30 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
>
> > > On Saturday 28 June 2014 05.55:39 Rusi Mody wrote:
> > > > PS. No I am not defending grub2 -- I find its documentation almost
> > > > non-existent -- just my survival strategies :-)
> > > Yes, this is one problem. There are others:
>
> > 20 man pages and an info manual amounts to non-existent documentation?
>
> I use the grub command configfile (also multiboot).
> What do they do? Where are they documented?
> [I got the tips on usage on the grub mailing list]
>
> More generally:
> $ ls /boot/grub/i386-pc/*.mod|wc -l
> 213
>
> So there are 213 modules in grub... Who/What/Where/How...???
Deficiencies in existing documentation don't match up with a claim of
its being almost non-existent. The present documention would be of help
to most users for most things, but I suppose your examples above only go
to show that grub isn't perfect.
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