Re: [PATCH] Mingw support for grub2

[Bean]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Vesa Jääskeläinen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bean wrote:
>> Yes, it works, although mingw can't use device names like /dev/sda,
>> but it can use windows special name //./PHYSICALDRIVE0.
>
> That should be with back slashes ('\'). Or is there some hack somewhere
> to support that?

Hi,

Mingw would translate / to \, so both are ok. But using / is more
clear, as \ is the escape character in cygwin shell, so we need to use
two of them, \\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0.

-- 
Bean