Grub config file editing

Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Mon Feb 20 23:54:48 UTC 2006


Greetings Tim,

Tim wrote:
> Tim:

< snip >

> I really loathe its manner of starting counting from zero.  Sure, it
> makes sense for 0 to refer to a whole partition, and 1 for the first
> partition.  But 0 for the first drive is nonsensical.

Grub starts it's numbering from 0 . Well since computers do start
counting from 0 due to their binary logic , i guess that is to
be expected . Remember for example that BIOS starts it's counting
for hard disks at 0x80 ( 80 hexadecimal ) .


Kind Regards,
   Kostas






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