diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e9cf560ee..00126d41c 100644
--- 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 d5dfb8f32..314d2e8e3 100644
--- 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 03db4cbbf..f6bf09e83 100644
--- 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