From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GVkA4-00022I-2E for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:30:24 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GVkA2-00020T-Nm for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:30:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GVkA0-0001yj-Vk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:30:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVkA0-0001yd-NP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:30:20 -0400 Received: from [194.109.24.33] (helo=smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GVkGq-0004i0-21 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:37:24 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k967UISK071027 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:30:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200610051534.k95FYart014206@dell01.dinaserver.com> <4526018E.20700@raulete.net> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:38:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4526018E.20700@raulete.net> (adrian15@raulete.net's message of "Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:11:10 +0200") Message-ID: <8764exuc5j.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: grub2 file browser draft 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: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:30:23 -0000 adrian15 writes: >> I noticed you mention hda1 here, which is a Linux device name. I have >> explained you before it is technically not possible to translate GRUB >> device names to Linux device names. I wish it was possible, but >> unfortunately it currently isn't because the BIOS is used to access >> harddisks. > > I am sorry, I did not want to start over the discussion. I just wanted > to know if given a hard disk device we could iterate over its > partitions or at least generate a menu from them. > > I've seen that you say we cannot iterate over files so I supose that > it also means that we cannot iterate over partitions yet. Please read my other email about scripting. I assume all your possible questions are answered there, otherwise please ask. -- Marco