From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: counting partitions in gpt partition map
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:32:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hd4hjt01.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604252144.25598.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:44:25 +0200")
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org> writes:
> Why does the gpt partition map count partitions from one instead of zero,
> unlike other partition maps in GRUB? I don't object to changing the base
> number to one in GRUB 2, but they should be at least consistent.
This most likely would be a bug, if this is the case. I haven't
really tested things on a partition map that is actually in use.
Perhaps it's that or clumsiness that introduced this.
IIRC the first partition is one with a special meaning, perhaps it is
that?
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-25 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-25 19:44 counting partitions in gpt partition map Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-04-25 20:27 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-04-25 20:32 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2006-04-25 21:47 ` Peter Jones
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