From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1CNDqZ-0006Rq-LM for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:13:59 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CNDqY-0006Rg-HD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:13:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CNDqY-0006RU-55 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:13:58 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CNDqY-0006RR-31 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:13:58 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CNDiL-0001AK-0z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:05:29 -0400 Received: from localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92C08324 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:02:25 +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 08159-06 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:02:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A82B8298 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:02:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from marco.marco-g.com (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1953EC047 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:02:23 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <1098283465.417679c90a494@webmail.han.nl> <200410211253.10450.okuji@enbug.org> <1F8CE95E-2371-11D9-A336-000A95A0560C@penguinppc.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:02:27 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1F8CE95E-2371-11D9-A336-000A95A0560C@penguinppc.org> (Hollis Blanchard's message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:54:35 -0500") Message-ID: <87bremvf7g.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new@vscan-cn.han.nl 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: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:13:58 -0000 Hollis Blanchard writes: >> devalias foo "/pci@FF500000/isa@6/ide@i1f0/disk@0,0" >> multiboot (foo,0)/boot/kernel > > I suspect it will be a point of confusion that a user can directly use > "hda" (a real/OF devalias) for their first disk, but if they want to > use their second disk they must add a devalias command to their > menu.lst file (or in OF itself). Why do they have to add it to the menu.lst? You can add additional OF devaliases using the OF command line interface. But there is no problem to make a temporary one either. What Okuji described is exactly what I had in mind when I initially started working on the PPC port. You can use devaliases in any case, although it would be nice if it is possible to use a full path, which is what your patch made possible. But if the full path conflicts with the GRUB syntax, it just shouldn't be used... -- Marco