Re: GRUB 1.95 is released

[Vladimir Serbinenko]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> * Yoshinori K. Okuji <address@hidden> [061015 16:51]:
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> > * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first
> >  partition of "hd0" is now "hd0,1" but not "hd0,0".
> >    
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> Hm. What's the reason for being inconsistent here?
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> 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?
>
> Using Linux style names might make sense as well... hda1,...
>
>  
It was already discussed plenty of times and the answer is that with 
BIOS it's impossible to guess the linux's names, so it would just 
confuse the users

> Regards,
> Stefan
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