On 26 March 2010 08:34, Simon Geard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 20:04 +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: >> No, this is grub2 - on x86, disks still start at zero, but dos partitions >> have their "real" number (1-4 for primary, 5+ for extended) so (hd0,15) >> is indeed sda15. > > Yeah... because having them inconsistent is less confusing than having > them both start at zero? > > You say *dos* partitions - does grub2 behave differently for other types > of partition table? > The syntax can differ. The one I noticed on my initial searches was for ppc macs using OpenFirmware and apple partitions. [ http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC ] linux (hd,7)/vmlinux root=/dev/hda9
For BSD partitions, letters are used, or slice numbers and letters. All of these variants seem to make the partition identifiers consistent with most other programs. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
