A basic question regarding grub display options

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Sep 27 18:49:36 UTC 2011


On 09/27/2011 10:40 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 09/27/2011 10:53 PM, PM wrote:
>> 1) For memory test (I don't know why this comes)
> $ info -f grub -n 'badram'
> 
> On 09/28/2011 01:03 AM, NoOp wrote:
>  > And yes, I know you are a grub2 developer:-)
> 
> Colin's the grub2 head honcho, NoOp, who couldn't get his team to  write 

Yes I realise that; I'm well aware who Colin Watson is.

> a good man page until recently, so he has to write it himself  :). Other 
> than the gnu grub2 webpage, there is a good grub2 info facility in 
> One-irate Omelet (not so good/complete in Nutty). At terminal, "info -f 
> grub" all 72 pages.

Easier to read it here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
or via gvim.

But the question still remains re memtest86: "Rather than remove it, why
not remove the executable bit?" as suggested on the
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 page?
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