Grub Documentation 'Holes'

[Phillip Whiteside]

Dave,

IMHO I'd just put a link in from grub2 to the server documentation for RAID,
the server guys will keep that up to date, it's not a 'beginners' topic. If
they follow the Server Manual, they will be able to get some support from
the http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=339 Using tasksel to add on
the GUI's for gnome / xubuntu / kubuntu will be far less painful and removes
the requirement of people with RAID experience keeping the community Grub2
area updated for RAID. As you well know, I'm all for less duplication of
instructions and then have them struggle to keep all the pages up to date;
instead point people to one source that is kept up to date.

As Adam is a part of the docs team (it's he who I am liasing with for the
'desktop LAMP' installation stuff), I do think that letting the server team
look after RAID is the best option.

But, that's for the various teams to decide. Would the server team be okay
to take on the RAID stuff for us 'lunatics' that do such things then put on
a Desktop? Again, IMHO I do not really see that as a real problem; RAID is
RAID, applications for DE are that. I do recall about 18 years ago being
'blown away' when 'X' came out for UNIX, it was about the same time as
windows 3 hit the world - And, yeah, it was on our UNIX (AT&T) servers,
although we did have a Solaris machine as a slave unit... Eeeeh, when I was
a lad ;-)

Adam, could you give your views / get the views of the server team on how
those who keep https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 should deal with
this?

Regards,

Phill.


On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:54 PM, David Stan <drs217 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Phill, I appreciate it.
>
> I will definitely study the material, although how much 'sticks' is
> another matter. I don't 'retain' as well as I used to but I normally now
> take better notes!
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 21:44 +0100, Phillip Whiteside wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > the last person I helped with RAID1 I pointed over to an excellent and
> > detailed posting at
> >
> http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-software-raid1-on-a-running-system-incl-grub2-configuration-ubuntu-10.04There is so much detail on there is would be an article in it's own right,
> and I do not think putting it in the grub2 documentation would sit well.
> >
> > There is also the small matter of the rather excellent 10.04LTS server
> > documentation for RAID at
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/advanced-installation.html
> >
> > I've seen both methods used, using the ubuntu server system just
> > requires the use of tasksel to put on gui ubuntu (GNOME), kubuntu or
> > xubuntu versions on [lxde isn't a tasksel yet '-( ] The server edition
> > covers the three types of RAID commonly used.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:04 AM, David Stan <drs217 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Just a note for the documentation folks. While I try to keep
> >         the
> >         https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 current, there are
> >         several
> >         glaring lapses.
> >
> >         The first is discussion of RAID; another is booting from USB
> >         devices. I
> >         have no Grub 2 experience with either and thus have not been
> >         able to
> >         contribute anything on these topics in the community doc.
> >
> >         If anyone has experience and knowledge in these areas
> >         contributing to
> >         this doc would be very helpful.
> >
> >         Dave
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
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