From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mingw support for grub2
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:16:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B18960.5030909@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980808240914yac8a91bo97cfea1cd893b85@mail.gmail.com>
Bean wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Vesa Jääskeläinen <chaac@nic.fi> wrote:
>> Bean wrote:
>>> Yes, it works, although mingw can't use device names like /dev/sda,
>>> but it can use windows special name //./PHYSICALDRIVE0.
>> That should be with back slashes ('\'). Or is there some hack somewhere
>> to support that?
>
> Hi,
>
> Mingw would translate / to \, so both are ok. But using / is more
> clear, as \ is the escape character in cygwin shell, so we need to use
> two of them, \\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0.
In cygwin shell... yes... but mingw programs are not meant to be run
under that. Mingw programs are native windows programs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-24 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-23 14:11 [PATCH] Mingw support for grub2 Bean
2008-08-24 12:40 ` Christian Franke
2008-08-24 12:48 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-08-24 15:11 ` Bean
2008-08-24 15:25 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-08-24 15:31 ` Bean
2008-08-24 15:49 ` Bean
2008-08-24 14:12 ` Bean
2008-08-24 16:04 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-08-24 16:14 ` Bean
2008-08-24 16:16 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
2008-08-24 16:42 ` Christian Franke
2008-08-29 19:59 ` Bean
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