On 6 Nov 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> Personally, I dislike the `/dev/' prefix because it is misleading. I
> dislike it in Mach, too (where you can specify the location of a boot
> script using `/dev/XXX' as a synonym for `XXX').
>
Me too. I had to really break my head when it came
Hello, OKUJI!
> If you really think the support should be added, let me know the
> reason. If there is no opposition, I'll delete the entry in TODO.
Also delete the code.
It is broken anyway.
Pavel Roskin
I have a question for all of you: is it really necessary to support
BSD slice syntax?
For now, I don't think so. If there is anything that BSD slice
syntax can do but the GRUB-specific syntax cannot do, it would make
sense to add BSD slice syntax support. But I don't think there
> Ashutosh S Rajekar writes:
ASR> I had supported the completion syntax, with the only exception
ASR> that even the filenames had to be preceeded with the
ASR> "/dev/"hdXsX" prefix, and this is quite rational.
Personally, I dislike the `/dev/' prefix because it is misleading. I
dislike
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote :
> Probably GRUB now can distinguish IDE from SCSI, so the question is
> related to the user interface rather than the internals. Suppose that
> the user uses the blocklist syntax. In the native syntax, she will
> write like this:
>
> (hd1)1+20
>
> Bu
From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BSD slice syntax
Date: 05 Nov 1999 22:16:26 -0600
> Now that you have written ioprobe, that should allow us to correctly
> identify the IDE devices. Are there any other problems you can think
> of?
Now the things have
>>>>> OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
OY> I have a question for all of you: is it really necessary to
OY> support BSD slice syntax?
It is something that would be very nice to do, if we can do it
correctly.
OY> [...] don't like the BSD slice syntax is that it is
