From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: disk vs partition numbering
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:00:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612132200.15609.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <457FB665.3050305@lockie.ca>
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 09:14, James Lockie wrote:
> I take that back, software should work without having to read the
> manual, grub legacy was NOT like that for me.
Exactly. It is ideal that one can use software without reading a manual
appropriately. The reality is different, but we should make effort to get
closer to this goal.
> Maybe grub should use the way of designating a disk/partition in the
> same way as what OS it is running on?
> Yes, being different for each OS. :-)
Unfortunately, this would cause strange behaviors. For example, suppose that
you have installed GRUB into a floppy or CD-R. When you bring it to another
computer, how should GRUB behave? Mimic the operating system on which GRUB
was installed? Mimic the operating system the user is trying to boot? If you
have multiple operating systems installed, which one???
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-13 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-04 14:45 GRUB2 - testing report, hppa support? Nico -telmich- Schottelius
2006-12-05 19:46 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-09 0:17 ` disk vs partition numbering Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-12 22:46 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-13 4:11 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-13 20:52 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-13 8:14 ` James Lockie
2006-12-13 21:00 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2006-12-14 15:41 ` Tomáš Ebenlendr
2006-12-11 7:47 ` GRUB2 - testing report, hppa support? Vincent Pelletier
2006-12-11 10:51 ` Jan C. Kleinsorge
2006-12-13 13:11 ` Marco Gerards
[not found] <200612130008.kBD08fRl027411@dell01.dinaserver.com>
2006-12-13 8:59 ` disk vs partition numbering adrian15
2006-12-13 21:06 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
[not found] <200612132236.kBDMaCNX019752@dell01.dinaserver.com>
2006-12-14 10:09 ` adrian15
2006-12-14 12:12 ` Marco Gerards
2006-12-14 12:33 ` Damon Register
2006-12-16 5:01 ` Tristan Gingold
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