Vincent Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le mardi 05 décembre 2006 20:46, Yoshinori K. Okuji a écrit : >> > Oh, btw, it's HIGHLY confusing that disks start at 0, partitions at >> > 1. Could you please fix it and make it consequently? either hd1,1 >> > or hd0,0, but not hd0,1 or hd1,0. >> >> No. It is consistent with most operating systems, so less confusing to the >> user. GRUB Legacy used 0-based counting for partitions, and I have received >> an uncountable number of complaints. Thus it is really a bad idea to make >> GRUB inconsistent against other systems. > > But by changing the numbering, we void both the learning effort of the > people "who knows" and the answering effort they spent with people "who don't > know". At least, that's my position regarding to the change. > > By changing it we might both face the complaints of the people - like me :) - > who think the two numberings are inconsistent and the people who would have > anyway complained about starting from 0, because disks are still numbered > from 0... We may also face complaints from the people who already complained > about starting from 0 - and eventually accepted it - and who will have to > learn again now...
You can never make everyone happy. Whatever you propose, there will always be someone who disagrees. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
