Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 22:30 +0000 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 should be exactly the same. Both of
> them should start counting at 1, or both of them should start counting
> at 0 (old method). No mix.
>
Quote from http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html
Fix design mistakes in GRUB Legacy, which could not be solved for
backward-compatibility, such as the way of numbering partitions.
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.
I don't know why Okuji (or the other PUPA developers) decided this but
honourly I don't care.
Maybe you can find some explanation in the grub-devel archives.
Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 22:30 +0000 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 should be exactly the same. Both of
> them should start counting at 1, or both of them should start counting
> at 0 (old method). No mix.
>
Quote from http:// www.gnu. org/software/ grub/grub- 2.en.html compatibility, such as the way of numbering partitions.
Fix design mistakes in GRUB Legacy, which could not be solved for
backward-
In other words, we (as in Debian maintainers and GNU maintainers) won't change this again.
developers/
I strongly hope and believe Ubuntu won't divert from us in this point.
I don't know why Okuji (or the other PUPA developers) decided this but
honourly I don't care.
Maybe you can find some explanation in the grub-devel archives.
--
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer