From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GZ8Tb-0001ks-Ra for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:04:36 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZ8TX-0001fw-BZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:04:32 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZ8TT-0001Xb-Og for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:04:29 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZ8TS-0001Wd-4c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:04:26 -0400 Received: from [80.190.231.112] (helo=khepri.openbios.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GZ8cN-00077Z-BU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:13:39 -0400 Received: from stepan by khepri.openbios.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GZ8TP-0004Iq-R0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:04:23 +0200 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:04:23 +0200 From: Stefan Reinauer To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20061015160423.GC15209@coresystems.de> References: <200610151651.32868.okuji@enbug.org> <20061015153104.GA12994@coresystems.de> <1229.24.146.17.108.1160926532.squirrel@mail.blastwave.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1229.24.146.17.108.1160926532.squirrel@mail.blastwave.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.18-rc5-1.5-default on an x86_64 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Subject: Re: GRUB 1.95 is released 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, 15 Oct 2006 16:04:32 -0000 * Dennis Clarke [061015 17:35]: > > * Yoshinori K. Okuji [061015 16:51]: > >> * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first > >> partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0". > > > > Hm. What's the reason for being inconsistent here? > > > > If changing the partition naming scheme, I would have thought it'd > > become hd1,1. But why is the first disk 0 and the first partition 1? > > > > Using Linux style names might make sense as well... hda1,... > > I would prefer a naming style that is not specific to any OS at all. Good point. (hd0,0) already did that, right? > So hard disks numbered as "disks" and partitions" as "partition" works real > well. Keeping in mind that even a partition is an abstraction as opposed > to a real thing. We can continue philosophy and discuss that what grub is seeing as disk might be an abstraction as well. It might run in vmware, or on some other hypervisor or emulator. So do I understand you correctly that, abstracted devices are counted from 0, whereas physical devices are counted from 1? Is that the rule this follows? Stefan -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: info@coresystems.de • http://www.coresystems.de/