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

Thu Aug 23 07:33:13 CEST 2012

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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 ;) )
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+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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