Debian Bug report logs - #604019
man bootparm: mention grub, and correct kernel-parameters.txt location

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Package: manpages; Maintainer for manpages is Dr. Tobias Quathamer <[email protected]>; Source for manpages is src:manpages (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: [email protected]

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:12:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed-upstream

Found in version manpages/3.27-1

Fixed in version manpages/3.52-1

Done: Simon Paillard <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:39:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: Bug#604019: man bootparm: mention grub, and correct kernel-parameters.txt
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On 11/19/10 14:09, [email protected] wrote:
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected],[email protected]
> Package: manpages
> Version: 3.27-1
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/share/man/man7/bootparam.7.gz
> 
> We see
> 
>    The LILO program (LInux LOader) written by Werner Almesberger is the
>    most commonly used.
> 
>    The other commonly used Linux loader is 'LoadLin'

The text on LILO and LoadLin is indeed crufty. I have simply removed all of 
that text, and briefly mentioned GRUB as an example of a boot loader.

> Please mention grub.
> 
> Also say that kernel-parameters.txt is at
> /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-*/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.gz
> in addition to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt if
> indeed at the latter at all these days.

I'm not sure what you mean with this piece. 
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt is certainly alive and well in my 3.9
source tree...

Cheers,

Michael

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