Bug#241899: grub: Documentation problem

[Jö Fahlke]

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Package: grub
Followup-For: Bug #241899

This is probably just a misunderstanding that happened to me as well.
"info (grub.info.gz)terminal" has the following text about the
timeout:

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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
If both `console' and `serial' are specified, then GRUB will use the
one where a key is entered first or the first when the timeout
expires.
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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

I mistook timeout to be the timeout set with the `timeout' command and
only got it right when reading this bugreport.  I propose to change
the text as follows:

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
If both `console' and `serial' are specified, then GRUB will use the
one where a key is entered first or the first when the timeout (set
with `--timeout') expires.
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

Or document `--timeout' explicitly just like the other options.

J=F6.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: mips
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-r4k-ip22
Locale: LANG=3Dde_DE.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=3Dde_DE.UTF-8@euro (charmap=3DUTF=
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