Bug#523876: manpage missing for update-grub2

Lars Noodén lars at umich.edu
Mon Apr 13 10:24:06 UTC 2009


Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Franklin Piat wrote some preliminary versions of the manpages at the
> official grub2 wiki [0]

Those are a good start.  Adding a second OS is no easy task as it was in 
grub1 and not covered directly there, AFAIK.

> But we won't include them on our own, they need to be included upstream
> first.

That makes sense, but as it stands there is not information enough in 
the base distro (lenny) to be able to add another OS

/boot/grub/grub.cfg is automagically generated so changes cannot go 
there as in grub1. e.g.

	menuentry "Chainload OpenBSD" {
	    set root=(hd0,3)
	    chainloader +1
	}

There is in /etc/grub.d/ some shellscripts-from-hell for 10_linux and 
10_hurd.  Having some recipes there for {Open|Net|Free|DragonFly}BSD, 
QNX and OpenSolaris could be another way to solve the problem while we 
wait for documentation from upstream.





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