Re: enumerating with Grub*

2016-07-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Jul 2016 at 01:44:28 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2016-07-08 00:04 (UTC-0500): > > >What I'm trying to find out is why you wrote "Grub2 *inexplicably* > >counts partitions starting with 1" (my emphasis) when everything > >I've ever seen counts partitions from 1

Re: enumerating with Grub*

2016-07-07 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2016-07-08 00:04 (UTC-0500): What I'm trying to find out is why you wrote "Grub2 *inexplicably* counts partitions starting with 1" (my emphasis) when everything I've ever seen counts partitions from 1 (with the notable exception of old Grub). I think they've been counted

Re: enumerating with Grub*

2016-07-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 22:52:57 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2016-07-07 20:03 (UTC-0500): > > >On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 20:03:46 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > >>Grub and Grub2 count drives starting with 0 (as a BIOS does). > > >>Grub also counts partitions starting with 0

Re: enumerating with Grub*

2016-07-07 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2016-07-07 20:03 (UTC-0500): On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 20:03:46 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: Grub and Grub2 count drives starting with 0 (as a BIOS does). Grub also counts partitions starting with 0. Grub2 inexplicably counts partitions starting with 1. I'm afraid

Re: enumerating with Grub* (was: reasons to ditch LILO before...)

2016-07-07 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, July 07, 2016 09:03:38 PM David Wright wrote: > The most modern fdisk program I have is gdisk (for GPT disks) and it > counts partitions from 1. Is there some newfangled disk subsystem > that's passed me by which starts counting at zero? I guess it still confuses me, but maybe I have

Re: enumerating with Grub* (was: reasons to ditch LILO before...)

2016-07-07 Thread David Wright
> rhkra...@gmail.com composed on 2016-07-07 18:47 (UTC-0400): > >The thing that always frustrated me about grub is that, iirc, they counted > >disks / partitions different than lilo and the rest of Linux--they start > >counting at 1 (like Windows, iirc), and lilo and Linux start counting at > >0--

Re: enumerating with Grub* (was: reasons to ditch LILO before...)

2016-07-07 Thread Felix Miata
rhkra...@gmail.com composed on 2016-07-07 18:47 (UTC-0400): The thing that always frustrated me about grub is that, iirc, they counted disks / partitions different than lilo and the rest of Linux--they start counting at 1 (like Windows, iirc), and lilo and Linux start counting at 0--is that stil