From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiw5z-0004Aj-VQ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:29:31 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiw5y-0004Ad-LC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:29:30 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiw5w-00049q-Mg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:29:30 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiw5w-00049k-Hb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:29:28 -0400 Received: from gateway01.websitewelcome.com ([69.93.126.19]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jiw5w-0003ml-29 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:29:28 -0400 Received: (qmail 10853 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2008 18:37:22 -0000 Received: from gator297.hostgator.com (74.53.228.114) by gateway01.websitewelcome.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 2008 18:37:22 -0000 Received: from [146.187.185.99] (port=52276) by gator297.hostgator.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jiw5p-0001VW-Ee for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:29:21 -0500 Message-ID: <47FA6801.8010904@gibibit.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:29:21 -0700 From: Colin D Bennett User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20080321163500.GA25127@thorin> <47FA64AF.1010501@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47FA64AF.1010501@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator297.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gibibit.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Some GRUB ideas 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: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:29:30 -0000 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