From: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: counting partitions in gpt partition map
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:27:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145996853.3609.23.camel@basalt.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604252144.25598.okuji@enbug.org>
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 21:44 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> Why does the gpt partition map count partitions from one instead of zero,
> unlike other partition maps in GRUB? I don't object to changing the base
> number to one in GRUB 2, but they should be at least consistent.
I would *love* to have the numbering start at one. This would be
consistent with Open Firmware, Linux, and probably every other OSs'
numbering, which will reduce user confusion.
-Hollis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-25 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-25 19:44 counting partitions in gpt partition map Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-04-25 20:27 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2006-04-25 20:32 ` Marco Gerards
2006-04-25 21:47 ` Peter Jones
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