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diff --git a/docs/grub-2-guide.xml b/docs/grub-2-guide.xml index ca0bc89..8b587d6 100644 --- a/docs/grub-2-guide.xml +++ b/docs/grub-2-guide.xml @@ -10,12 +10,16 @@ <mail link="matej@laitl.cz">Matěj Laitl</mail> </author> +<author title="Editor"> + <mail link="mail@moritz-schlarb.de">Moritz Schlarb</mail> +</author> + <author title="Author"> <mail link="scarabeus"/> </author> <abstract> -This guide shows you how to install and configure GRUB 2 bootloader. +This guide shows you how to install and configure the GRUB 2 bootloader. </abstract> <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> @@ -23,7 +27,7 @@ This guide shows you how to install and configure GRUB 2 bootloader. <license/> <version>1</version> -<date>2011-08-26</date> +<date>2011-10-10</date> <chapter> <title>About</title> @@ -32,7 +36,7 @@ This guide shows you how to install and configure GRUB 2 bootloader. <p> GRUB 2 is next generation bootloader that brings many long awaited features -that were not availible in Grub Legacy (0.9*). +that were not available in GRUB Legacy (0.9*). </p> <p> @@ -57,9 +61,9 @@ Some examples of new features: <body> <p> -By default grub tries to detect the desired platform during configure from your +By default, GRUB 2 tries to detect the desired platform during configure from your toolchain and CPU. If you want support for other platforms or just don't want -to use the autodetection you should use GRUB_PLATFORMS use expand. This variable +to use the autodetection, you should use GRUB_PLATFORMS use expand. This variable should be set in /etc/make.conf. </p> @@ -88,31 +92,31 @@ easily render your system impossible to boot. </section> <section> -<title>Configuring GRUB</title> +<title>Configuring GRUB 2</title> <body> <impo> -Gentoo installs grub renamed to grub2. So if you read any other guide you +Gentoo installs all grub commands renamed to grub2. So if you read any other guide you should replace all grub mentions with grub2 <i>(grub-mkconfig -> grub2-mkconfig)</i>. </impo> <p> -Compared to grub-legacy current grub uses automatic generation to generate +Compared to GRUB Legacy, GRUB 2 uses automatic generation to generate all the required entries for you to boot. This is handled by <i>grub2-mkconfig</i> command that probes your system for all the required data. Cooperating with -<i>sys-boot/os-prober</i> it detects even other OSes on all disks. +<i>sys-boot/os-prober</i>, it detects even other OSes on all disks. </p> <impo> -If you updated from grub-legacy then your <path>/boot/grub/menu.lst</path> -Was converted to <path>/boot/grub2/grub.cfg</path> to ensure that your system +If you updated from GRUB Legacy then your <path>/boot/grub/menu.lst</path> +was converted to <path>/boot/grub2/grub.cfg</path> to ensure that your system can boot even if you forget to generate the config. Never the less you should take time and migrate the configuration to be automatically generated, because -next time grub2 is installed it will use automatic generation and ignore -grub-legacy files. +next time GRUB 2 is installed it will use automatic generation and ignore +GRUB Legacy files. </impo> -<pre caption="Generating the grub2 config"> +<pre caption="Generating the GRUB 2 config"> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg </pre> @@ -123,14 +127,14 @@ All the options are described in grub2 info pages. </p> <note> -This file is created by Gentoo and if you find interesting option not used -in there just open bugreport (possibly with a patch). +This file is created by Gentoo and if you find an interesting option not used +in there just open a bugreport (possibly with a patch). </note> <p> -Sometimes if automatic detection of grub does not suffice the file <path> -/etc/grub.d/40_custom</path> should be used to store custom finder. Full -description how to configure such with example can be find in grub2 info +Sometimes, if automatic detection of GRUB 2 does not suffice, the file <path> +/etc/grub.d/40_custom</path> should be used to store custom entries. Full +description how to configure such with examples can be found in grub2 info pages. </p> @@ -151,16 +155,16 @@ Remember to replace the <i><UUID></i> with your device UUID. </section> <section> -<title>Pre-Configuring GRUB to use EFI</title> +<title>Pre-Configuring GRUB 2 to use EFI</title> <body> <p> Some newer PCs (and all Intel Macs) come with <uri link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface">EFI</uri> -(UEFI to be correct) as a replacement for lagacy +(UEFI to be correct) as a replacement for legacy and aging BIOS firmware. EFI usually can emulate BIOS environment for OS, but that also hides some unique features of EFI such as faster boot times, support -for GPT partition tables etc. EFI firmware comes in two flavours - 32bit and +for GPT partition tables, etc. EFI firmware comes in two flavours - 32bit and 64bit and unless you have early Intel-based Mac with 32bit processor, your firmware will be likely 64bit. Please note that unlike in user-space, <b>64bit EFI firmware cannot run 32bit EFI bootloader.</b> This section will guide you @@ -181,20 +185,20 @@ or 3.0 in order to successfully boot. <p> One big difference between BIOS and EFI is that EFI is able to read partition -table (both MBR and GPT formats should be supported) and to read from specially -labelled FAT32 partition called <b>EFI System Partition</b>. During bootup, EFI -fimrmware can execute <e>EFI applications</e> stored in files in EFI System +tables (both MBR and GPT formats should be supported) and to read from a specially +labeled FAT32 partition called <b>EFI System Partition</b>. During bootup, EFI +firmware can execute <e>EFI applications</e> stored in files in EFI System Partition. One special EFI application is a bootloader. You may use the EFI System Partition as your <c>/boot</c> partition if you don't mind limitations -of FAT32 filesystem such as no support for symlinks and per-file owner and +of the FAT32 filesystem such as no support for symlinks and per-file owner and permissions. The rest of this section assumes that you use <c>/boot</c> for mounting EFI System Partition. </p> <p> -If you don't already have EFI System Partition, let's create one. The procedure is -different for GPT and MBR-formatted disks. The partition need not be the first -one on disk as in our examples. In case it is GPT-partitioned you'll need one +If you don't already have an EFI System Partition, let's create one. The procedure is +different for GPT and MBR-formatted disks. The partition does not need to be the first +one on the disk as in our examples. In case it is GPT-partitioned you'll need one of the <c>gdisk</c> (CLI, sys-apps/gptfdisk), <c>parted</c> (CLI, sys-block/parted) or <c>gparted</c> (GUI, sys-block/gparted) partitioning tools; <c>fdisk</c>, <c>cfdisk</c> and <c>sfdisk</c> do not currently support @@ -203,8 +207,8 @@ GPT. In the GPT case, create a partition at least 100 MiB in size with </p> <note> -Replace <c>/dev/sda</c> with disk you want to have EFI System Partition on and -<c>/dev/sda1</c> with partition designated for it in all following samples. +Replace <c>/dev/sda</c> with the disk you want to have the EFI System Partition on and +<c>/dev/sda1</c> with the partition designated for it in all following samples. </note> <pre caption="EFI System Partion on GPT disk as shown by gdisk"> @@ -220,13 +224,12 @@ Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name <comment>(...)</comment> Number Start End Size File system Name Flags -<ident> 1 17.4kB 211MB 211MB fat32 boot</ident> <comment># you may have File system field empty</comment> +<ident> 1 17.4kB 211MB 211MB fat32 boot</ident> <comment># the File system field may be empty</comment> </pre> <p> -In case the disk partition scheme is MBR (MS-DOS), EFI System Partition should -have type <c>EF</c>. Create or re-type it, again it should be at least 100 MiB -large. +In case the disk partition scheme is MBR (MS-DOS), the EFI System Partition should +have type <c>EF</c>. Create or re-type it, it should be at least 100 MiB large here, too. </p> <pre caption="EFI System Partion on MBR disk as shown by fdisk"> @@ -238,7 +241,7 @@ large. </pre> <p> -Next create FAT32 filesystem on it if you already haven't done so. From now on, +Next, create a FAT32 filesystem on it if you already haven't done so. From now on, procedure is the same for both GPT and MBR-formatted disks. Program <c>mkdosfs</c> is from package <c>sys-fs/dosfstools</c>. </p> @@ -249,18 +252,18 @@ mkdosfs 3.0.9 (31 Jan 2010) </pre> <warn> -This command erases everything that previously was on <c>/dev/sda1</c>. +This command erases everything that was previously on <c>/dev/sda1</c>. </warn> <p> The <c>-F 32</c> option tells mkdosfs to create FAT32 filesystem and <c>-n -efi-boot</c> option tells mkdosfs to set partition label to <c>efi-boot</c>. -You may use atrbitrary string up to 11 characters long for label or you may not +efi-boot</c> option tells mkdosfs to set the partition label to <c>efi-boot</c>. +You may use arbitrary string up to 11 characters long as label or you may not use it at all. </p> <p> -After you prepared your HDDs you can easily proceed with generating the +After you have prepared your HDDs, you can easily proceed with generating the configuration. </p> @@ -272,14 +275,14 @@ configuration. <body> <p> -Grub2 itself detects the LVM correctly, with no aditional setup required. +GRUB 2 itself detects the LVM correctly, with no aditional setup required. </p> <impo> If you placed your root and boot partitions inside LVM make sure that disk you plan to use as booting one has at least few MBs of space before first -partition, because grub2 needs more space to store lvm loader. In other -words if you install it with not enough space it will just break your +partition, because GRUB 2 needs more space to store lvm loader. In other +words: If you install it with not enough space it will just break your partition. </impo> @@ -288,23 +291,23 @@ partition. </chapter> <chapter> -<title>Installation of grub2</title> +<title>Installation of GRUB 2</title> <section> <title>Installing on some MBR/GPT directly</title> <body> <p> -Installation of grub2 is similar to installation of grub-legacy. +Installation of GRUB 2 is similar to installation of GRUB Legacy. </p> -<pre caption="Installing grub2 on /dev/sda"> +<pre caption="Installing GRUB 2 on /dev/sda"> grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/sda </pre> <impo> If you get ANY errors during this step do not reboot your computer, but make sure it is fixed. Your computer won't boot if installation -fail. +failed. </impo> </body> |