From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OeVUf-0004eC-LJ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:58:01 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60741 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeVUc-0004di-Ap for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:57:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeVUX-00059m-H4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:57:56 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:64504) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeVUX-00059a-EG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:57:53 -0400 Received: by gxk4 with SMTP id 4so237284gxk.0 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:57:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jVBX2Edtsm5PoVUioMXOmDCNWoGgBWUOM6gFrtp709c=; b=CqKhBnTTCTTo5PkUBiEbfk0V11dcUddn2+jIOUKCrHXAy8nrIrvOr5fZhQH+roL9ie dXK4+Cx2ys5/sbir8rQF0/Mcl9/11zReuB2ORZnoxKzeWMoGsxS/I+p+r3GzCxMBYsqK NakKV2vQmht29oaP4ctpjP6+f9ODiCRby0xYI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=A1f75+8VwHdTfaiGqg3qVRG6Q9dp7IM0ogCAoLsKdxzXYGY9YJOtQqGMHUE/4MuQLk TT/0MaWInNVvVJrYSfoQz+bU8t2g1Bp79ErPSaff2ra2FfrdaQWrdQbRd53TDgzZzTQY zTMOWdMB1tMcW3s3J2OvBbxSCHOCRX21dLImw= Received: by 10.101.107.8 with SMTP id j8mr326695anm.166.1280419072120; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.21.179] (bas1-toronto05-1177663517.dsl.bell.ca [70.49.184.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x33sm1327520ana.13.2010.07.29.08.57.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C51A4FE.9000902@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:57:50 -0400 From: Doug Nazar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lennart Sorensen References: <4C511DF0.3080306@gmail.com> <20100729153641.GO2632@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20100729153641.GO2632@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Fallback to scanning OF tree if no devaliases X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:58:00 -0000 On 2010-07-29 11:36 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > I removed the nvalias's and got: > > 0> boot /pci@800000020000200/pci1014,02BD@1/sas/disk@20000 | I'm guessing the ',' throws everything for a loop. Grub is probably interpreting it as a partition. Interesting little quirk. Have to think about how to handle that. Escaping is probably too intrusive. I guess substitution or abandon the idea. How common is it not to have nvalias's? Is that usual operating procedure? Doug