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Re: partition numbering
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: partition numbering |
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Date: |
Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:24:15 +0200 |
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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.
Okuji
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Re: [patch] set prefix on PPC, Hollis Blanchard, 2005/04/17
- Re: [patch] set prefix on PPC, Marco Gerards, 2005/04/17
- Re: [patch] set prefix on PPC, Hollis Blanchard, 2005/04/17
- Re: [patch] set prefix on PPC - briQ results, Hollis Blanchard, 2005/04/19
- Re: [patch] set prefix on PPC - briQ results, Marco Gerards, 2005/04/19
- Re: [patch] set prefix on PPC - briQ results, Hollis Blanchard, 2005/04/20
- Re: [patch] set prefix on PPC - briQ results, Marco Gerards, 2005/04/21