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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