In general we can't ensure that the partition number sequence corresponds to the physical order on the disk. The reason for that is as follows. Consider an existing installation:
1 - data 2 - other operating system Let us imagine that we resize partition 1 to make room for Ubuntu. Now we have essentially two choices (ignoring issues of primary/logical partitions for the sake of brevity): a) 1 - data 2 - swap 3 - Ubuntu 4 - other operating system b) 1 - data 3 - swap 4 - Ubuntu 2 - other operating system The problem with a) is that we have just changed the partition number of the other operating system. In very many cases, this will confuse that operating system and it won't be able to boot. People rightly consider it unacceptable when an Ubuntu installation renders another operating system unbootable. Thus, we have to go for b), operating a policy that we do not change the partition number of any existing partition simply because we insert other partitions physically before it. Thus, GRUB needs to tolerate out-of-order partitions. -- Karmic alpha 4 hangs at boot before GRUB with characters sequence https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423625 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
