When booting on the pegasosII I see the following problem:
grub> set prefix=(/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0,3)
That is when I am booting using `boot hd:4 grub)'.
The prefix contains an OF device name which will not work in GRUB, mainly because of the comma's.
What, a disk name with a comma in it?! Gee, I wish somebody had realized this would be a problem.</sarcasm>
Would it be possible to lookup the OF path in /aliases and set the prefix to the alias? That will be something that will work and is more user friendly I think.
I agree, using the alias is much more user-friendly, and that's the only reason I'm comfortable doing it. I will send the revised patch in a moment.
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.
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?
Shouldn't the prefix end with a `/' like you mentioned in one of your other emails. So in this case:
prefix=(/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0,3)/
The slash was removed when the path was truncated to the directory.
-Hollis
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