Re: GRUB 1.95 is released

[Dennis Clarke]

> 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?
>>
>>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
>

Or it may be Solaris or OS/2 Warp or some OS not yet released.

dc