On Wednesday 13 December 2006 05:11, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Since I'm used to Linux, which assigns disks letters rather than > numbers, I was unaware that other OSs like BSD number disks from 0. > Since that's the case, and neither 0 nor 1 will make sense to people > expecting "a", I'm OK with 0.
Not always true. For example, look at /dev/fd* and /dev/ide/hd/*. Linux is inconsistent, but does use 0-based counting for disks when using integers. > Yes, I definitely agree with the decision to number partitions from 1. > (Hopefully we can do the same with menu entries too. :) Making this > change at a time when the config file syntax changes is the only good > opportunity. I didn't think of this. It is an excellent question. For now, I don't know which is more natural, starting from 0 or 1 for menu entries. Marco, what is your opinion about this? Since you wrote most of the code, I guess you have some suggestion. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
