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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
>
>  
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