From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFbZ-0005dP-2y for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:38:53 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFVp-0004us-JH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:33:00 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFVa-0004ls-MN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:32:46 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFVY-0004i6-Pu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:32:40 -0400 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DNFOn-0002md-T5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:25:42 -0400 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D57FF9F3F7 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:24:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 17 Apr 05 19:24:16 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: grub-devel@gnu.org Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:24:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <20050213165452.GA4503@miracle> <8764yl8fi6.fsf@student.han.nl> <9462cb437966802c2fb51c95b8c0a907@penguinppc.org> In-Reply-To: <9462cb437966802c2fb51c95b8c0a907@penguinppc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504172124.16089.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: 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: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:38:51 -0000 On Sunday 17 April 2005 08:23 pm, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Anyways, GRUB, as a bootloader that uses firmware services, surely must > match firmware names and numbering. For example, on x86 you identify > disks as "hd0" and "hd1" because this is how the firmware enumerates > them. Not true. It counts "128" and "129". The user interface wraps firmware for convenince. The view from GRUB is not always identical to what firmware gives. What we must respect is what kind of view is convenient for the user, but not how a given firmwqare counts things. Okuji