From: Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Some GRUB ideas
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:29:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FA6801.8010904@gibibit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FA64AF.1010501@gmail.com>
komputes wrote:
> Something like that would be nice. Or at least a passing mention in
> menu.lst that Grub starts counting from 0 not 1 in its drive/partition
> designations--i.e. (hd0,1) = /dev/sda2, etc. That confuses a lot of
> newcommers to linux, who would appreciate a command that will help
> them select or at least see how to correctly transport hard disk
> "locations" from a shell to a menu.lst. I just thought I would bring
> this to the attention of GRUB developers to see if this can be
> included in an upcoming version/update.
I like your idea -- that would have come in very handy for me many times
before.
Note that in GRUB 2, partition numbering has been changed to begin at 1.
See: http://grub.enbug.org/grub.cfg
Colin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-07 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 16:35 Some GRUB ideas Robert Millan
2008-04-07 18:15 ` komputes
2008-04-07 18:29 ` Colin D Bennett [this message]
[not found] ` <87skxwkppr.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net>
2008-04-09 13:57 ` komputes
2008-04-10 22:35 ` Pavel Roskin
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