From: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB 1.95 is released
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:36:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45325591.6030909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061015153104.GA12994@coresystems.de>
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>* Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> [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,...
>
>
>
It was already discussed plenty of times and the answer is that with
BIOS it's impossible to guess the linux's names, so it would just
confuse the users
>Regards,
>Stefan
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-15 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-15 14:51 GRUB 1.95 is released Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-15 15:31 ` Stefan Reinauer
2006-10-15 15:35 ` Dennis Clarke
2006-10-15 16:04 ` Stefan Reinauer
2006-10-15 15:36 ` Vladimir Serbinenko [this message]
2006-10-15 15:41 ` Dennis Clarke
2006-10-15 16:00 ` Stefan Reinauer
2006-10-15 15:52 ` Stefan Reinauer
2006-10-15 20:51 ` Jeroen Dekkers
2006-10-16 13:44 ` Robert Millan
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