On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 10:51:43PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > At Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:31:04 +0200, > Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > > > * Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061015 16:51]: > > > * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first > > > partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0". > > > > Hm. What's the reason for being inconsistent here? > > > > If changing the partition naming scheme, I would have thought it'd > > become hd1,1. But why is the first disk 0 and the first partition 1? > > IIRC the BSDs, Solaris and GNU/Hurd start counting with 0 for their > disks, it might make sense to be consistent with those operating > systems.
..and Linux starts counting with 'a' which is not closer to 1 than it is to 0 anyway. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
