From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] set prefix on PPC
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:23:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wtr16wck.fsf@student.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1749395574fb7306baf244c6d5d146bb@penguinppc.org> (Hollis Blanchard's message of "Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:42:29 -0500")
Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> writes:
> Interestingly, as Nico mentioned before, there are often multiple
> aliases to the same device. In my case, when I boot from "hd", prefix
> is set to "ultra0", because that comes first in the /aliases property
> list. Everything works, but it could be a source of user confusion.
Right. This sucks, I agree.
>> Another thing we could do, but which is a bit more ugly, is creating
>> an alias. I am not sure if it is possible to create an OF alias from
>> GRUB, but I assume it will be.
>
> It is quite rude to unexpectedly clobber a user's devalias. With that
> in mind, what is the exact algorithm you're proposing?
Is this a problem if you do not store it?
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-17 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-14 2:38 [patch] set prefix on PPC Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-14 17:13 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-15 20:24 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-17 18:42 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-17 19:23 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
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2005-04-17 18:33 Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-17 19:38 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-17 20:32 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-02-13 16:54 Hollis Blanchard
2005-02-13 18:35 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-13 19:52 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-02-14 19:01 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-15 16:39 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-02-15 21:31 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-20 0:21 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-02-20 17:50 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-24 4:44 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-14 16:35 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-21 19:01 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-24 4:40 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-14 17:05 ` Marco Gerards
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