From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FYU7J-0006EY-Mo for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:26:37 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FYU7I-0006Cl-66 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:26:36 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FYU7G-0006Am-Ct for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:26:35 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYU7G-0006AV-5K for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:26:34 -0400 Received: from [66.111.4.25] (helo=out1.smtp.messagingengine.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FYU9m-0000EA-Tu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:29:11 -0400 Received: from frontend2.internal (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7B1D4CCCA for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:26:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.152]) by frontend2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:25:47 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: aDgFvumRmZEQaWXni7hl3s7cFUUN7tPnUlRITHM+N1Hr 1145996747 Received: from basalt.austin.ibm.com (pixpat.austin.ibm.com [192.35.232.241]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 821803B7C for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:25:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Hollis Blanchard To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <200604252144.25598.okuji@enbug.org> References: <200604252144.25598.okuji@enbug.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:27:33 -0500 Message-Id: <1145996853.3609.23.camel@basalt.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 (2.6.1-1.fc5.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: counting partitions in gpt partition map X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:26:36 -0000 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