> Stefan Reinauer wrote: > >>* Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061015 16:51]: >> >> >>>* Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first >>> partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0". >>> >>> >> >>Hm. What's the reason for being inconsistent here? >> >>If changing the partition naming scheme, I would have thought it'd >>become hd1,1. But why is the first disk 0 and the first partition 1? >> >>Using Linux style names might make sense as well... hda1,... >> >> >> > It was already discussed plenty of times and the answer is that with > BIOS it's impossible to guess the linux's names, so it would just > confuse the users >
Or it may be Solaris or OS/2 Warp or some OS not yet released. dc _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel