From: "M. Gerards" <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org>
Subject: Re: device syntax
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:44:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098283465.417679c90a494@webmail.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FCC87996-22A0-11D9-AB55-000A95A0560C@penguinppc.org>
Quoting Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org>:
> On Oct 20, 2004, at 3:58 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
>
> > Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> writes:
> >
> >> I was thinking about how GRUB specifies device paths using
> >> "(device,partition)/path" syntax. That's a problem because Open
> >> Firmware device paths can contain commas. The legal character list is
> >> the alphanumerics plus ", . _ + -". My Mac's video card is named
> >> "ATY,Rage128y", and I'm pretty sure I've seen disks with commas in
> >> their names.
> >
> > Does this problem occur for disks as well in practice?
>
> On my briQ, the hda devalias is "/pci@FF500000/isa@6/ide@i1f0/disk@0,0".
But in that case you could use (hda,0), right?
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-20 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 2:14 device syntax Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-20 8:58 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-20 7:33 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-10-20 9:47 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-20 10:13 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-10-20 14:14 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-20 14:04 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-20 14:44 ` M. Gerards [this message]
2004-10-20 15:22 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-21 10:53 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-21 11:26 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-10-21 11:33 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-28 18:59 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-21 14:54 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-28 19:02 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-29 1:40 ` Hollis Blanchard
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