diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 505cc0b7c..a78419aa6 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +1999-11-03 OKUJI Yoshinori + + * docs/tutorial.texi: Fix typos by ispell. + * docs/user-ref.texi: Likewise. + * docs/prog-ref.texi: Likewise. + * docs/appendices.texi: Likewise. + 1999-11-03 OKUJI Yoshinori * stage2/fsys_ext2fs.c (struct ext2_dir_entry): Changed the type diff --git a/docs/appendices.texi b/docs/appendices.texi index dcf6062c3..fd5f546c0 100644 --- a/docs/appendices.texi +++ b/docs/appendices.texi @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ should mean what format is used in the partition, such as filesystem and BSD slices, and should not be used to represent what operating system owns the partition. So use @samp{0x83} if the partition contains ext2fs filesystem, and use @samp{0xA5} if the partition contains ffs -fielsystem, whether the partition owner is Hurd or not. We will use +filesystem, whether the partition owner is Hurd or not. We will use @samp{0x63} for GNU Hurd filesystem that has not been implemented yet. @item I've installed a recent version of binutils, but GRUB still crashes. @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ obtained from: @c Do not change alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/hurd/src to the URI, since TeX does @c not format it well. -GRUB is avaliable from the GNU alpha archive site +GRUB is available from the GNU alpha archive site @url{alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/hurd/src} or any of its mirrors. The file will be named grub-version.tar.gz. The current version is @value{VERSION}, so the file you should grab is: diff --git a/docs/prog-ref.texi b/docs/prog-ref.texi index 2609803d7..f357f1a17 100644 --- a/docs/prog-ref.texi +++ b/docs/prog-ref.texi @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ Contain the @dfn{drive} part of the root device. Contain the @dfn{partition} part of the root device. @item part_start -Contain the current parition starting address. +Contain the current partition starting address. @item part_length Contain the current partition length, in sectors. @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ describes some techniques on how to guess mappings (@pxref{BIOS device mapping techniques, Multiboot Specification, BIOS device mapping techniques, multiboot, The Multiboot Specification}). -However, the techniques decribed are unreliable or difficult to be +However, the techniques described are unreliable or difficult to be implemented, so we use a different technique from them in GRUB. Our technique is @dfn{INT 13H tracking technique}. More precisely, it runs the INT 13 call (@pxref{Low-level disk I/O}) in single-step mode just diff --git a/docs/tutorial.texi b/docs/tutorial.texi index 678963c41..93a9db792 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial.texi +++ b/docs/tutorial.texi @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ or GNU Hurd kernel). The kernel, in turn, initializes the rest of the operating system (usually GNU). GRUB can load a wide variety of free operating systems as well as -chain-loading@footnote{@dfn{chain-load} is the machanism for loading +chain-loading@footnote{@dfn{chain-load} is the mechanism for loading unsupported operating systems by loading another boot loader.} proprietary operating systems. The important feature in GRUB is flexibility; GRUB can understand filesystems and kernel executable -formats, so you can load an arbitary operating system as you like +formats, so you can load an arbitrary operating system as you like without recording the position of your kernel on the disk. Therefore, you have to specify the drive/partition where your kernel @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ how to boot your operating systems from GRUB in the next chapter. For Multiboot-compliant kernels, GRUB can load them in a consistent way, but, for some free operating systems, you need to use some OS-specific -magics. +magic. @menu * Booting a Multiboot-compliant OS:: diff --git a/docs/user-ref.texi b/docs/user-ref.texi index 8418081ef..60cbde998 100644 --- a/docs/user-ref.texi +++ b/docs/user-ref.texi @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ which is a BIOS drive number, so the following are equivalent: @end example @var{part-num} represents the partition number of @var{bios-device}, -starting from zero for primary partitions and from four for extened +starting from zero for primary partitions and from four for extended partitions, and @var{bsd-subpart-letter} represents the BSD disklabel subpartition, such as @samp{a} or @samp{e}. @@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ more flexible command @command{install} in the backend and installs GRUB into the device @var{install_device}. If @var{image_device} is specified, then find the GRUB images in the device @var{image_device}, otherwise use the current @dfn{root device}, which can be set by the -command @command{root}. If @var{install_dvice} is a hard disk, then +command @command{root}. If @var{install_device} is a hard disk, then embed a Stage 1.5 in the disk if possible. @end deffn @@ -1361,5 +1361,5 @@ Print a summary of the command line options and exit. Print the version number of GRUB and exit. @item --quiet -Supress all normal output. +Suppress all normal output. @end table