grub2 pages

[Phill Whiteside]

That page would be an excellent one for people to cut their teeth with!

To those who are taking the plunge, may I give a little piece of personal
advice? When editing a page and you're not 100% of a formatting option,
open up the two links provided when you enter editing mode:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpOnEditing and
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax as separate tabs. In fact, I'd
go as far as to suggest bookmarking them and reading through them in small
chunks over several days. It really is good information. (I have them both
bookmarked).

Do not worry about messing up, use the preview button to see how things
look. If you get really confused as to where you are you up to, use the
cancel button. Also remember that unless you actually delete attachments
any alterations can be rolled back. There is nothing to fear in wiki
editing except fear itself :)

Regards,

Phill.


On 19 September 2013 21:24, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Phill :)
> I think we might well be able to handle this one without you!  The main
> aim was to find something people could useful get embroiled in so that they
> can rack-up some questions about wiki-editing.
>
> So, don't worry about this one this time chap :)
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com>
> *To:* Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>
> *Cc:* MARTIN DIXON <mh.dixon at btinternet.com>; "ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com"
> <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 19 September 2013, 21:02
> *Subject:* Re: grub2 pages
>
> I should be able to help out with grub2 stuff, I'd need to dust off the
> cobwebs but I did work with drs305 (Dave Stan) on getting instructions up
> back when grub2 was launched. However, I do ask that everyone understand
> that as an iso-tester and admin guy for lubuntu-qa my time is getting a bit
> more limited as we approach the release of 13.10. The final beta is out on
> Monday with lubuntu having 7 sets of ISO's to test by Thursday, along with
> a rather ugly bug that has just cropped up this late in the cycle in the
> kernel, it's a getting busy!
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 19 September 2013 20:52, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi :)
> I think all the technical stuff is there so it's hopefully just a case of
> deleting my bit about "signposting from older links" and then maybe
> smoothing out some of the rest of it and maybe de-geekifying some bits.
>
> So, i suspect that you might be an ideal person for the challenge.  You
> probably wont be able to read the whole page because there is quite a lot
> of it so maybe just do a small chunk at a time.
>
> I think the idea is that each paragraph might be enough of a nudge to
> someone who used to know the subject area but then gives a link to people
> who need more detail?  Although it might be that paragraphs are just a
> brief intro before giving the link to the relevant sub-page.  I'm not sure
> which is best in each case.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* MARTIN DIXON <mh.dixon at btinternet.com>
> *To:* Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>; "ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com"
> <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 19 September 2013, 20:39
> *Subject:* Re: grub2 pages
>
> @Tom How much of a challenge for one who knows nothing about Grub or
> sub-pages?  Serious question - the bigger the challenge the more you learn.
>            (Dentist tomorrow so don't rush back)
> Regards Martin
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>
> *To:* "ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 19 September 2013, 19:41
> *Subject:* grub2 pages
>
> Hi :)
> If anyone or a group of people are looking for something to get their
> teeth into the the Grub2 pages might usefully be tidied up a bit.
>
> Someone really keen tried to modularise it by taking chunks out to form
> their own sub-pages.  He was well on the way to making that 1st page much
> easier to use and navigate through but some fool got involved and the
> mission went a bit sideways.  I think all that bit in "Displays" about
> "Signposting from older links" should come out now imo.  (yes, the fool was
> me).  All that is really needed in the "Displays" tiny section is the link
> to
> Grub2/Displays <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Displays>
>
> which is a large enough sub-page (off the main Grub2 page) in it's own
> right.
>
> Seeing how the other chap set-up that sub-page and the other ones he did
> is a good way of learning a wiki-editing skill that few understand,
> sub-pages, and how easy it is to do a relative link to them.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
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