GRUB Mystery

[Jim Kuzdrall]

On Monday 18 July 2005 11:57 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Jul 18, 2005, at 20:39, Jim Kuzdrall wrote:
> > I am running out of experiments to try.
>
> I've admitted to myself I'll never fully understand Grub.  Every time
> I go back to it I wind up getting mixed up, figuring it out again,
> getting things working, then forgetting it. :)  Either I'm too dumb
> or Grub is confusing.  Then I haunt the Grub lists and the guys there
> are re-writing it and don't want to talk about Grub 1, since they're
> working on Grub 2, which doesn't and seemingly won't have many of the
> features of Grub 1.

    I feel better for having some company.  My collection of GRUB 
articles and tips totals about 15 pages, not including the rather 
uninformative info pages.  The articles often begin "this is how GRUB" 
works", but I can't find two that consistently agree.

    This is an instance where I am tempted to dig into the source code.  
I have a good guess what it is doing wrong, but I suspect the code is 
as poorly organized and documented as the product.  And besides, I am 
fully occupied with my engineering tasks.  When I retire...

    Is there is a common reason why code comments, info, man, and 
Microsoft manuals seldom give the needed answers?  Maybe the authors 
should explain why you would want the option or feature along with what 
it does.  This is particularly true for code, which clearly states what 
it does - posterity just wants to know why it was done.

    Anyway, I am going to redo the whole installation to see if I missed 
anything in the SuSE setup.  That shoots the morning at least.

Jim