[Mageia-dev] Add or Modify a Boot Menu Entry - please help write the help text

[Marja van Waes]

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On 22/08/2012 16:29, Pascal Terjan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Marja van Waes
> <marja11 at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> About a help text for drakx-installer-stage2:
>> 
>> Can someone please help documentation team with a good help text
>> for the help button for the "Add or Modify a Boot Menu Entry"
>> screen, so for the pop up screen you see in the second screenshot
>> here (the one that pops up on top of the Bootloader Configuration
>> screen) 
>> http://docteam.mageia.nl/installer/content/setupBootloaderAddEntry.html
>
>> 
> What is the expected kind of text? ( I have never read the help :)
> ) An explanation of the different fields?

Thanks for asking :-D

Yes, and what can be done there and what shouldn't

If you already have an idea about what to write, then don't read on
(my questions might make you forget things you'd otherwise add ;) )





For instance the append field:
* Is it wrong to make a new entry for your bootloader and leave that
field empty (I'm sure I never entered a UUID, because I don't really
know what it is nor how to find the one for that partition..... what
sets the UUID and how /do/ you find it, btw?)
* What options are there, what do they do?

And for the advanced screen:

Can you change the initrd image independently from the vmlinuz image
in the previous screen (and the other way around), in other words, are
they allowed to have different versions and if so, when can that be
needed or useful?

(I know too little about initrd and vmlinuz to be able to tell in a
few lines what they actually do and what I know might even be wrong.
It would be nice to have a short explanation in this help text)

For the video mode, when is changing that useful or OK? Can fiddling
with it help if, for instance, while booting into Mageia and pressing
"Esc", the text is too far to the left of the screen so you can't see
the first part of each line?

If you changed the video mode and made things worse, can you put
something on the append line to try with a different mode? (that is a
general question, too, for anything that you change here)






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