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Re: GRUB 1.95 is released
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Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: GRUB 1.95 is released |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:44:20 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
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 <address@hidden> [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.
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