From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFhD-00007y-LR for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:44:43 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFVt-0004va-9o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:33:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFVb-0004mv-8s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:32:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFVa-0004i6-03 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:32:42 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DNFOa-0002ln-4H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:25:28 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716189C3D for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:23:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30248-07 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:23:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44906A589 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:23:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFCE0C046 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:23:38 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20050414023823.GA24293@miracle> <87br8fkcu4.fsf@student.han.nl> <1749395574fb7306baf244c6d5d146bb@penguinppc.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:23:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1749395574fb7306baf244c6d5d146bb@penguinppc.org> (Hollis Blanchard's message of "Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:42:29 -0500") Message-ID: <87wtr16wck.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: [patch] set prefix on PPC 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: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:44:39 -0000 Hollis Blanchard 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