On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:31:35AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > When you hide complexity from the user, the user doesn't generally care or > want to understand what this involves. When we accept "(hd0,1)" from the > user, it implies we know what's the partition label in hd0, but reality is > that we're just guessing. User, however, will expect things to "just work", > and if they fail will blame it on GRUB. This is what I refer to when I > speak of burden.
Btw, I forgot to mention that initially GRUB took a very different approach: labels were considered arch-specific, so on i386-pc you only had msdos labels, on powerpc-ieee1275 you only had apple labels, etc. With this approach, the probing problem doesn't exist. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
