From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1CKAe0-0008UC-JL for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:12:24 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKAdz-0008U6-8m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:12:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CKAdy-0008Tq-L9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:12:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CKAdy-0008TV-Gl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:12:22 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CKAWO-0000y0-RX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:04:33 -0400 Received: from localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0878DB2 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:58:57 +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 06734-02 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:58:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352448DBC for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:58:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from marco.marco-g.com (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E156DC048 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:58:55 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: From: Marco Gerards Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:58:56 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Hollis Blanchard's message of "Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:14:10 -0500") Message-ID: <87zn2hrcj3.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: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:12:23 -0000 Hollis Blanchard writes: > I was thinking about how GRUB specifies device paths using > "(device,partition)/path" syntax. That's a problem because Open > Firmware device paths can contain commas. The legal character list is > the alphanumerics plus ", . _ + -". My Mac's video card is named > "ATY,Rage128y", and I'm pretty sure I've seen disks with commas in > their names. Does this problem occur for disks as well in practice? -- Marco