Grub documentation

[Phillip Whiteside]

Hi Connor,

next time we meet, expect a thump in the eye, or a sit down with a pint of
beer ;-)

What have you gotten me involved in ?!!!  As part of the bug-squad & doc
team & wiki team & SOD team, along with trying to get docs / wiki pages up
for Lubuntu, life is never quiet.

I always knew that Dave's Grub2 would be the accepted one - shame everyone
didn't realise ;-)

But, while you're on ..... What is this chatter about removing 'tasksel'
from the desktop system? That is really going screw up the simple addition
of LAMP for the students who need to learn it.

I'll leave you with another headache, as I can not get a deffinative answer
out of anyone.... Well, that's what you are there for.

If you'd like any more information on that particular F* up they are about
to make, please get in touch.

After years of sudo 'do this', sudo 'do that' we had
http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4 which was going to be added to
the server documention with a link from
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP As I was discussing with
Adam - It is really one of WTF moments.

Regards,

Phill.
P.S. You can add me as a +1 to keep tasksel on the vote for keeping it on
10.10 desktop.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Connor Imes <rocket2dmn at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>  Phil,
>
> Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.  The page on h.u.c. has really
> been the authoritative source on Grub2 so far - it is well maintained and
> very detailed.  Most of the material will probably apply to the latest
> version of Ubuntu, and since we won't be releasing system doc updates for
> previous versions of Ubuntu with the intent of adding Grub material, this
> should be OK.
>
> The system docs don't have much of anything about Grub, and provide a link
> to the Grub2 page.  Configuring Grub is a complex task in many cases, esp.
> now with Grub2, and is probably not applicable to the system docs, except
> maybe a small blurb in the serverguide.  If there is specific material you
> think should be in the docs, please feel free to present it.
>
> In short, I suggest keeping most of the Grub2 material here [1].
>
> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
>
> HTH,
> -Connor
>
>
> On 06/29/2010 04:18 PM, Phillip Whiteside wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>  well this was where I came in and got quickly confused (Don't worry, that
> is normal for me).
>
>  There is a little project going on over at
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-beginners-wiki<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-beginners-wiki> and,
> as usual, the ugly head of grub has once again raised its head. There are
> excellent resources for grub2 scattered around,
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2 points to
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 and then there is
> http://ubuntu-manual.org/  I'm still unsure what has been decided upon for
> writing wiki pages, community documents, manual pages etc., but while the
> discussion goes on.......
>
>  I am told that there is no prior case of a wiki page being replaced by
> the community document, but in this case I think it is a candidate. I
> understand that 'Rocket' is involved more closely from my enquiries. As the
> version of grub2 for 9.10 is different to that for 10.04 LTS  (Raid support
> being one obvious difference, along with it coinciding with Win7 having a
> big fall out) and grub2 for 10.10 looks like being different again, herding
> everything into one area does, to me, make sense as when you have a grub
> problem, you sure do need a 'one stop shop' for help.
>
>  I'm not sure where the documentation teams are up to, so please don't
> shout at me !!
>
>  so, if someone needs a 'slave' to help out, please don't hesitate to
> contact me.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Phill.
>
>
>
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