From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: partition numbering
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:45:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzrx6vch.fsf@student.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504172124.16089.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:24:15 +0200")
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org> writes:
> On Sunday 17 April 2005 08:23 pm, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>> Anyways, GRUB, as a bootloader that uses firmware services, surely must
>> match firmware names and numbering. For example, on x86 you identify
>> disks as "hd0" and "hd1" because this is how the firmware enumerates
>> them.
>
> Not true. It counts "128" and "129". The user interface wraps firmware for
> convenince. The view from GRUB is not always identical to what firmware
> gives.
>
> What we must respect is what kind of view is convenient for the user, but not
> how a given firmwqare counts things.
True, but what I meant is that the device numbers are related to the
information as the BIOS gives you and are not related to how the
hardware is connected and configured.
--
Marco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-17 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-13 16:54 [patch] set prefix on PPC Hollis Blanchard
2005-02-13 18:35 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-13 19:52 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-02-14 19:01 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-15 16:39 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-02-15 21:31 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-20 0:21 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-02-20 17:50 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-24 4:44 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-14 16:35 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-21 19:01 ` Marco Gerards
2005-02-24 4:40 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-14 17:05 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-17 17:10 ` partition numbering (was: set prefix on PPC) Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-17 17:44 ` partition numbering Marco Gerards
2005-04-17 18:23 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-04-17 18:57 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-17 19:24 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-04-17 19:45 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
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