From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Gub5H-0001tD-B3 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:52:11 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gub5G-0001s7-9m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:52:10 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gub5F-0001rX-Ph for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:52:09 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gub5F-0001rU-LC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:52:09 -0500 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gub5F-0001Ch-7Y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:52:09 -0500 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3216A3CD0BB38 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:49:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0479E3CD0BB34 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:49:43 +0100 (CET) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:52:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20061204144520.GL3690@schottelius.org> <200612122346.23678.okuji@enbug.org> <1165983087.10549.7.camel@diesel> In-Reply-To: <1165983087.10549.7.camel@diesel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612132152.07257.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.292518, version=0.17.2 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: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:52:10 -0000 On Wednesday 13 December 2006 05:11, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Since I'm used to Linux, which assigns disks letters rather than > numbers, I was unaware that other OSs like BSD number disks from 0. > Since that's the case, and neither 0 nor 1 will make sense to people > expecting "a", I'm OK with 0. Not always true. For example, look at /dev/fd* and /dev/ide/hd/*. Linux is inconsistent, but does use 0-based counting for disks when using integers. > Yes, I definitely agree with the decision to number partitions from 1. > (Hopefully we can do the same with menu entries too. :) Making this > change at a time when the config file syntax changes is the only good > opportunity. I didn't think of this. It is an excellent question. For now, I don't know which is more natural, starting from 0 or 1 for menu entries. Marco, what is your opinion about this? Since you wrote most of the code, I guess you have some suggestion. Okuji