From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Gsptv-0002v8-Lm for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:17:11 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gsptu-0002v2-Ir for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:17:10 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gsptt-0002ul-13 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:17:10 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gspts-0002ui-Uq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:17:08 -0500 Received: from [32.97.182.141] (helo=e1.ny.us.ibm.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gspts-0005u4-Qb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:17:09 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e1.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kB90H8Et030488 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 19:17:08 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id kB90H7UR273458 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 19:17:08 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kB90H7xf009785 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 19:17:07 -0500 Received: from [9.53.41.42] (basalt.austin.ibm.com [9.53.41.42]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kB90H7OJ009778 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 19:17:07 -0500 From: Hollis Blanchard To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <200612052046.53034.okuji@enbug.org> References: <20061204144520.GL3690@schottelius.org> <200612052046.53034.okuji@enbug.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:17:04 -0600 Message-Id: <1165623424.23364.74.camel@basalt> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: disk vs partition numbering 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: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:17:10 -0000 On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:46 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > Oh, btw, it's HIGHLY confusing that disks start at 0, partitions at > > 1. Could you please fix it and make it consequently? either hd1,1 > > or hd0,0, but not hd0,1 or hd1,0. > > No. It is consistent with most operating systems, so less confusing to > the user. GRUB Legacy used 0-based counting for partitions, and I have > received an uncountable number of complaints. Thus it is really a bad > idea to make GRUB inconsistent against other systems. I am very glad partitions are now numbered from one; that will certainly reduce user confusion (although we should expect complaints from people who know how grub1 works). However, we will now receive lots of complaints, like this one, because disks start at zero but partitions start at one. After all, we've all learned that consistency is critical for good user interface... -Hollis