From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1CKHvx-0000uy-Rr for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:59:25 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKHvx-0000ut-6w for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:59:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKHvw-0000ug-Ks for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:59:24 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CKHvw-0000ud-IU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:59:24 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CKHoP-00084f-QU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:51:38 -0400 Received: from localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FA69468; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:44:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03705-05; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:44:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38B19160; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:44:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from india.han.nl (india.han.nl [145.74.103.15]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E0DC047; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:44:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by india.han.nl (Postfix, from userid 48) id 7EEB21067; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:44:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 82.92.27.129 ( [82.92.27.129]) as user metgerards@localhost by webmail.han.nl with HTTP; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:44:25 +0200 Message-ID: <1098283465.417679c90a494@webmail.han.nl> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:44:25 +0200 From: "M. Gerards" To: The development of GRUB 2 , Hollis Blanchard References: <87zn2hrcj3.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 X-Originating-IP: 82.92.27.129 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new@vscan-cn.han.nl Cc: Subject: Re: device syntax X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:59:25 -0000 Quoting Hollis Blanchard : > On Oct 20, 2004, at 3:58 AM, Marco Gerards wrote: > > > Hollis Blanchard 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