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

[Steve Langasek]

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On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:09:44PM -0700, Guido Trotter wrote:
> Moreover it seems that there might be another way to achieve this, but it
> doesn't seem documented in the manual itself... I was able to make this w=
ork
> using the "savedefault --once --default=3DN" command inside grub, but I d=
iscovered
> this just by looking at the BTS. There is also a grub-reboot command that=
 does
> that for you... Unfortunately this is a debian-specific feature and it's =
not
> documented (or at least not enough... I haven't found anything about it e=
xcept
> in the BTS and some reference to it in the changelog).

> Of course probably it's too late to revert the patch and introduce the up=
stream
> way in sarge, but I think that the less that can be done is a huge discla=
imer
> about this in the README.Debian for grub and grub-doc explaining that the
> feature discussed in the manual is not implemented in debian, for now, th=
at
> there is another way to achieve the result, and saying what this way is...

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.

> What do people think? Should we file and RC bug against grub (or grub-doc=
) (or
> raise the severity of #260391) for "mischievous information" till a discl=
aimer
> is added?=20

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?

Thanks,
--=20
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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