Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Thursday 2005-11-03 at 08:06 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:

> Hence your forth disk would be hdd "d" being the forth letter of the
> alphabet, and it would not be hd0/hda as there is no hd0, there is hda0
> meaning the first partition on the first drive.
> :-)

Don't confuse how humans count things, how the system counts partitions, 
and how grub count things. Grub is confusing, because contrary to other 
designers, they chose to start to count things from number 0 onwards - 
perhaps because in C programming arrays are 0 based and this way the 
program saves one step complexity, making it smaller and compact, versus 
human readable.

  I don't even think they made this choice, but rather the bios designers 
  made it several years ago. Grub simply uses it. I'd have to check this 
  out to make sure, though.


So... for grub, (hd0,0) is, normally, hda1. Or more properly said, first 
disk, first partition, be it ide, be it scsi.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson

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