"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 17 April 2005 08:23 pm, Hollis Blanchard wrote: >> Anyways, GRUB, as a bootloader that uses firmware services, surely must >> match firmware names and numbering. For example, on x86 you identify >> disks as "hd0" and "hd1" because this is how the firmware enumerates >> them. > > Not true. It counts "128" and "129". The user interface wraps firmware for > convenince. The view from GRUB is not always identical to what firmware > gives. > > What we must respect is what kind of view is convenient for the user, but not > how a given firmwqare counts things.
True, but what I meant is that the device numbers are related to the information as the BIOS gives you and are not related to how the hardware is connected and configured. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
