Vincent Pelletier wrote: > Le mardi 05 décembre 2006 20:46, Yoshinori K. Okuji a écrit : > >>> Oh, btw, it's HIGHLY confusing that disks start at 0, partitions at >>> 1. Could you please fix it and make it consequently? either hd1,1 >>> or hd0,0, but not hd0,1 or hd1,0. >>> >> No. It is consistent with most operating systems, so less confusing to the >> user. GRUB Legacy used 0-based counting for partitions, and I have received >> an uncountable number of complaints. Thus it is really a bad idea to make >> GRUB inconsistent against other systems. >> > > But by changing the numbering, we void both the learning effort of the > people "who knows" and the answering effort they spent with people "who don't > know". At least, that's my position regarding to the change. > > By changing it we might both face the complaints of the people - like me :) - > who think the two numberings are inconsistent and the people who would have > anyway complained about starting from 0, because disks are still numbered > >from 0... We may also face complaints from the people who already complained > about starting from 0 - and eventually accepted it - and who will have to > learn again now... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > An escape from this 'felt' inconsistency could be to index the drives with alphabetic characters instead.
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