2003-05-04 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org>

	* docs/grub.texi (partnew): Fixed the inconsistency between the
	implementation and the documentation. The last argument is the
	length instead of the ending address.
	Reported by Daniel Farrell <s2108287@student.rmit.edu.au>.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e9cf560ee1c507926574473363ea6cc32e36da35..00126d41ccadd8e4936588abe73047046be27bd7 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2003-05-04  Yoshinori K. Okuji  <okuji@enbug.org>
+
+       * docs/grub.texi (partnew): Fixed the inconsistency between the
+       implementation and the documentation. The last argument is the
+       length instead of the ending address.
+       Reported by Daniel Farrell <s2108287@student.rmit.edu.au>.
+
 2003-03-19  Yoshinori K. Okuji  <okuji@enbug.org>
 
        From Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>:

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index d5dfb8f3273531ff1dc42ee8ff4f929d920a4d8c..314d2e8e3693fd861f29957dbfe2b6651cc58603 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Cedric Ware <ware@com.enst.fr>
 Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>
 Christoph Plattner <Christoph.Plattner@dot.at>
 Dan J. Walters <djw@cs.utexas.edu>
+Daniel Farrell <s2108287@student.rmit.edu.au>
 Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
 Daniel Wagner <wagi@gmx.ch>
 Danilo Godec <danci@agenda.si>

diff --git a/docs/grub.texi b/docs/grub.texi
index 03db4cbbf6617c6066fb5a313a1df10148553881..f6bf09e830ecb84448e429c899da64218d28b4a4 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/grub.texi
+++ b/docs/grub.texi
@@ -2089,12 +2089,11 @@ it is disabled. If no argument is given, the state is toggled.
 @node partnew
 @subsection partnew
 
-@deffn Command partnew part type from to
+@deffn Command partnew part type from len
 Create a new primary partition. @var{part} is a partition specification
 in GRUB syntax (@pxref{Naming convention}); @var{type} is the partition
-type and must be a number in the range @code{0-0xff}; @var{from} and
-@var{to} are the starting and ending sectors, expressed as an absolute
-sector number.
+type and must be a number in the range @code{0-0xff}; @var{from} is
+the starting address and @var{to} is the length, both in sector units.
 @end deffn