Re: device syntax

[M. Gerards]

Quoting Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden>:

> On Oct 20, 2004, at 3:58 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
> 
> > Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> 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?
> 
> On my briQ, the hda devalias is 
> "/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden,0".

But in that case you could use (hda,0), right?

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Marco