Large chunk of chapter 9 in online VirtualBox User Manual is missing
Posted: 30. Oct 2017, 09:08
Today I'm trying to find an instruction on how to set up custom video modes in VirtualBox VGA BIOS. Which a Google search landed me on Chapter 9 in online version of VirtualBox User Manual, and its Table of Contents lists "9.8.1. Custom VESA resolutions".
However, when I clicked on "9.8.1. Custom VESA resolutions" entry, the browser went to ch09.html anchor #customvesa, but does not jump to the desired section, and scrolling through entire page does not reveal the "Custom VESA resolutions" section either.
From a look at the bottom of chapter's Table of Contents and section 9.20.4, large chunk of the page seems to be missing: namely after 9.10 entry in Table of Contents to a bit before the start of 9.20 content section. (If you looked at page's HTML source, you would see the anomaly just after the end of `<dt>` tag of "9.10. Legacy commands for using serial ports" table of contents entry).
This problem seems to be recent, as the section could still be read from Google Cache of the page (dated 28-Oct-2017).
Exact steps to reproduce:
Please investigate and fix.
(I ended up reading the section in PDF manual as a workaround)
Note #1: I can't link to each relevant web address directly, sorry. This is my first post on VirtualBox forum, the forum software don't allow me. (I can't even say "U" "R" "L" word literally, but that is an unrelated problem).
Note #2: For other users who are trying to find the same missing parts of this chapter, apart from Google cache mentioned above (which I don't know how long it would be available), you can still read them in:
However, when I clicked on "9.8.1. Custom VESA resolutions" entry, the browser went to ch09.html anchor #customvesa, but does not jump to the desired section, and scrolling through entire page does not reveal the "Custom VESA resolutions" section either.
From a look at the bottom of chapter's Table of Contents and section 9.20.4, large chunk of the page seems to be missing: namely after 9.10 entry in Table of Contents to a bit before the start of 9.20 content section. (If you looked at page's HTML source, you would see the anomaly just after the end of `<dt>` tag of "9.10. Legacy commands for using serial ports" table of contents entry).
This problem seems to be recent, as the section could still be read from Google Cache of the page (dated 28-Oct-2017).
Exact steps to reproduce:
- Visit main directory of VirtualBox user manual. (www DOT virtualbox DOT org SLASH manual)
- Scroll down to "9. Advanced topics" in Table of Contents.
- Click "9.8. Advanced display configuration", the browser would go to anchor #idm8247 of ch09.html.
- You would see that the browser ended up start of chapter 9 instead of the desired section.
- Click "9.8.1. Custom VESA resolutions" on chapter's table of contents, the browser would go to ch09.html anchor #customvesa.
- You would see that the browser is still at the start of chapter 9 instead of the desired subsection.
- Scroll down to the end of chapter's table of contents.
- You would see that the first section content visible is "9.20.3. Configure VM selector menu entries" rather than "9.1. VBoxSDL, the simplified VM displayer".
- You would see that chapter's table of contents is truncated at section 9.10, rather than completing with section 9.35.
Please investigate and fix.
(I ended up reading the section in PDF manual as a workaround)
Note #1: I can't link to each relevant web address directly, sorry. This is my first post on VirtualBox forum, the forum software don't allow me. (I can't even say "U" "R" "L" word literally, but that is an unrelated problem).
Note #2: For other users who are trying to find the same missing parts of this chapter, apart from Google cache mentioned above (which I don't know how long it would be available), you can still read them in:
- The PDF manual (download DOT virtualbox DOT org SLASH virtualbox SLASH UserManual.pdf).
- The Internet Archive.