Re: [Bug 425421] [NEW] Partition counting should use the same method as device counting

2009-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:06:44PM -, Felix Zielcke wrote: > In other words, we (as in Debian maintainers and GNU > developers/maintainers) won't change this again. > I strongly hope and believe Ubuntu won't divert from us in this point. Indeed we won't. As for drive numbering, it's generally

Re: [Bug 425421] [NEW] Partition counting should use the same method as device counting

2009-09-06 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 22:30 + schrieb Pjotr12345: > Public bug reported: > > In Grub2, partition counting starts at 1. However, device counting > starts at 0 (the old method). This difference is very unwise and will > cause needless confusion. > > Counting of partitions and devices shou

[Bug 425421] [NEW] Partition counting should use the same method as device counting

2009-09-06 Thread Pjotr12345
Public bug reported: In Grub2, partition counting starts at 1. However, device counting starts at 0 (the old method). This difference is very unwise and will cause needless confusion. Counting of partitions and devices should be exactly the same. Both of them should start counting at 1, or both o