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authorGlenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>2022-04-12 16:56:20 +0000
committerDaniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>2022-04-20 18:29:01 +0200
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parentf5e92d9fb4c0d754bc9c0b807300155d0d50a611 (diff)
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docs: Use correct list format
Using "*" to prefix list items leads to undesirable display output for at least the generation of the html documentation. Use the @itemize and @item directives to get itemized list output. Also fix some wording and punctuation issues. Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/docs/grub.texi b/docs/grub.texi
index ffda5d22f..5de94d062 100644
--- a/docs/grub.texi
+++ b/docs/grub.texi
@@ -836,22 +836,29 @@ use difficult disk access methods like ahci. Hence GRUB will warn if attempted
to install into small MBR gap except in a small number of configurations
that were grandfathered. The grandfathered config must:
-* use biosdisk as disk access module for @file{/boot}
-* not use any additional partition maps to access @file{/boot}
-* @file{/boot} must be on one of following filesystems:
- * AFFS, AFS, BFS, cpio, newc, odc, ext2/3/4, FAT, exFAT,
+@itemize @bullet
+@item
+use biosdisk as disk access module for @file{/boot}
+
+@item
+not use any additional partition maps to access @file{/boot}
+
+@item
+@file{/boot} must be on one of following filesystems:
+ AFFS, AFS, BFS, cpio, newc, odc, ext2/3/4, FAT, exFAT,
F2FS, HFS, uncompressed HFS+, ISO9660, JFS, Minix, Minix2, Minix3, NILFS2,
NTFS, ReiserFS, ROMFS, SFS, tar, UDF, UFS1, UFS2, XFS
+@end itemize
MBR gap has few technical problems. There is no way to reserve space in
the embedding area with complete safety, and some proprietary software is
known to use it to make it difficult for users to work around licensing
-restrictions. GRUB works it around by detecting sectors by other software and
+restrictions. GRUB works around it by detecting sectors by other software and
avoiding them and protecting its own sectors using Reed-Solomon encoding.
-GRUB team recommends having MBR gap of at least 1000 KiB
+GRUB team recommends having MBR gap of at least 1000 KiB.
-Should it be not possible GRUB has support for a fallback solution which is
+Should it not be possible, GRUB has support for a fallback solution which is
heavily recommended against. Installing to a filesystem means that GRUB is
vulnerable to its blocks being moved around by filesystem features such as
tail packing, or even by aggressive fsck implementations, so this approach