On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Dear manpages maintainers. > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including manpages) as > well for a large variety of target languages. > > During their work translators notice different possible issues in the > original (english) man pages. Sometiems this is a straightforward > typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a convention > not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the original. > > We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at > least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some > distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss > the latest upstream version once a while, so the error might be > already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately > if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and > the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check > each and every issue. > > Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format, > i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man, > groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where > possible), but only an approximation which you need to translate into > your source format. > > Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are > not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the > problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify > them. > > I'm now reporting the errors for your project. As requested, each > issue is sent in an unique mail for easier tracking on your side. If > future reports should use another channel, please let me know. > > ** > > Markup B > > msgid "I<noinitrd>" Fixed. I need more explanation of all of the remaining: > -- > Markup "linuxrc" > > "It is also possible for the I</linuxrc> executable to change the normal root " > "device. For I</linuxrc> to change the normal root device, I</proc> must be " > "mounted. After mounting I</proc>, I</linuxrc> changes the normal root " > "device by writing into the proc files I</proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev>, I</" > "proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-name>, and I</proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-addrs>. For " > "a physical root device, the root device is changed by having I</linuxrc> " > "write the new root filesystem device number into I</proc/sys/kernel/real-" > "root-dev>. For an NFS root filesystem, the root device is changed by having " > "I</linuxrc> write the NFS setting into files I</proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-" > "name> and I</proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-addrs> and then writing 0xff (e.g., " > "the pseudo-NFS-device number) into file I</proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev>. " > "For example, the following shell command line would change the normal root " > "device to I</dev/hdb1>:" > -- > Markup "linuxrc" > > "The main motivation for implementing B<initrd> was to allow for modular " > "kernel configuration at system installation." > -- > Markup "linuxrc" > > "The executable I</linuxrc> loads the necessary modules from the initial root " > "filesystem." > -- > Markup "initrd" > > "Last but not least, Linux distributions on CD-ROM may use B<initrd> for easy " > "installation from the CD-ROM. The distribution can use B<LOADLIN> to " > "directly load I</dev/initrd> from CD-ROM without the need of any floppies. " > "The distribution could also use a B<LILO> boot floppy and then bootstrap a " > "bigger RAM disk via I</dev/initrd> from the CD-ROM." Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
