On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:53:32 -0500 pyther@pyther.net wrote:
--- doc/official_installation_guide_en | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/official_installation_guide_en b/doc/official_installation_guide_en index d73ed8e..69578f2 100644 --- a/doc/official_installation_guide_en +++ b/doc/official_installation_guide_en @@ -180,11 +180,9 @@ Make sure your BIOS is set in a way to allow booting from your CD-ROM or USB device. Reboot your computer with the Arch Linux Installation CD in the drive or the USB stick plugged in the port. Once the installation medium has started -booting you will see the Arch Linux logo and a grub menu waiting for your +booting you will see the Arch Linux logo and an Isolinux menu waiting for your selection. Most likely you can just hit enter at this point. -If Grub hangs, you're one of the unlucky few whose CD-rom drive doesn't work -with grub and you should try the isolinux image.
these two changes have nothing to do with the newly introduced syslinux support. these belong in a seprate bugfix commit (where the bug is that this should have been added when we switched to syslinux in archiso)
### Post-boot At the end of the boot procedure, you should be at a login prompt with some @@ -460,7 +458,9 @@ hard disk preparations need to be undone. #### Select Packages
Select Packages will let you select the packages you wish to install from the -CD, USB or your NET mirror. You have the opportunity to specify whole package +CD, USB or your NET mirror. First, you are prompted to select a bootloader. Your +choice will install the appropriate bootloader package and will be used for the +"Install Bootloader" stage. You now have the opportunity to specify whole package groups from which you'd generally like to install packages, then fine-tune your coarse selection by (de)selecting individual packages from the groups you have chosen using the space bar. It is recommended that you install all the @@ -771,25 +771,30 @@ changes you made in mkinitcpio.conf.
"Your choice will install a package" is not very well phrased. How about: "First, you are prompted to select a bootloader package. (this is the bootloader you will be configuring later on in the "Install Bootloader" stage). After this you can select package groups from which (...)"
#### Install Bootloader
-Install Bootloader will install a bootloader on your hard drive, either GRUB -or NONE in case you have a bootloader already installed and want to use that -one instead. If you choose to install GRUB, the setup script will want you to +Install Bootloader will install
how about "install and help you configure" ?
the bootloader that you selected in the "Select +Source"
Not "Select source". "Select packages".
+stage on your hard drive. If you skipped selecting a bootloader, no +bootloader will be installed. Otherwise, the setup script will want you to examine the appropriate configuration file to confirm the proper settings.
- **/boot/grub/menu.lst** +**/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg** + +An editor will open, allowing you to edit the appropriate bootloader +configuration file. You should check and modify this file to accommodate your +boot setup. The installer will have pre-populated this file using UUID entries I would leave out the 'using UUID entries'. depending on the filesystem selection method used, this can also be regular devicefiles or by label, just don't mention it imho.
+which you may have to change in the same cases you'd need to change them in your +fstab.
how about "may have to change if you also needed to make changes to your fstab"
+ +Syslinux: +After checking your bootloader configuration for correctness, you'll be asked to +allow the installer to Set the Boot Flag and install the Syslinux MBR.
-You should check and modify this file to accommodate your boot setup if you -want to use GRUB, otherwise you will have to modify your existing bootloader's -configuration file. The installer will have pre-populated this file using UUID -entries which you may have to change in the same cases you'd need to change -them in your fstab. +Grub:
After checking your bootloader configuration for correctness, you'll be -prompted for a partition to install the loader to. Unless you're using yet -another boot loader, you should install GRUB to the MBR of the installation -disk, which is usually represented by the appropriate device name without a -number suffix. +prompted for a disk to install the loader to. You should install GRUB to the MBR +of the installation disk, which is usually represented by the appropriate device +name without a number suffix.
meh, I don't think this is the right place to educate the user on the difference between devicefiles for disks and for partitions. I would leave out the "which is..." part. Dieter