Bug#260391: Issue with grub documentation about booting a kernel only once

[Guido Trotter]

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:29:51AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:

Hi,

> If you're going to try to document the difference, wouldn't it be better to
> fix the contents of grub-doc directly?  It seems like that would be about as
> much work, and much more useful.
> 

We can, but my reasoning was that many people are not going to install grub-doc
and just find documentation about grub somewhere on the internet, and then ask
themselves why it's not working... This is especially true for servers they're
trying to administer remotely!

A note in README.Debian highlights that this is a Debian Specific variation, and
is installed in everybody's system. Then we can also change the manual we ship,
but I think that telling it there is more important.

After all if I figure that something is not working/not present in Debian the
first place I have a look to is the Debian specific README, because I expect
those differences to be noted there. Only after I try reading the full doc,
because it requires more effort... ... ... :)

Let me know if you think my reasoning stands or has some flaws...

> I don't think this is RC, but since it is a documentation issue it would
> still be appropriate to try to fix it for sarge.  Perhaps you could prepare
> a patch to the documentation?
> 

Ok, I'll try to do it this weekend, as soon as we agree about how it is to be
done...

Thanks!

Guido