From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DNG4x-00010m-32 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:09:15 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DNG4v-0000zJ-Fg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:09:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DNG4s-0000yT-KF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:09:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNG33-0000Nw-Cj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:07:17 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DNFj9-0004ML-Di for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:46:43 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8813C852A for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:45:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04139-07 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:45:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDDD9D7D for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:45:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127F9C047 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:45:18 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20050213165452.GA4503@miracle> <8764yl8fi6.fsf@student.han.nl> <9462cb437966802c2fb51c95b8c0a907@penguinppc.org> <200504172124.16089.okuji@enbug.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:45:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200504172124.16089.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:24:15 +0200") Message-ID: <87mzrx6vch.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: partition numbering 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: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:09:13 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" 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