Re: device syntax

[Hollis Blanchard]

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".

-Hollis