Re: [PATCH] Mingw support for grub2

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Bean wrote:
> 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.

In cygwin shell... yes... but mingw programs are not meant to be run
under that. Mingw programs are native windows programs.