On 07/07/2016 05:47 PM, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, the partitions are counted differently, and that can be a little frustrating. However, with Grub, you can refer to the partitions by label or by UUID (Grub usually defaults to using UUID) rather than drive/partition numbers, which makes it a little easier. Lilo cannot refer to the partitions in this way, so you must know what drive/partition you are referring to. This is not a big deal in many installations, however, in situations where the drive/partition number may change (e.g. usb sticks that on one boot may be /dev/sdb on one boot and /dev/sdc on another depending on how/when the bios enumerates them) this comes in very handy, as you don't have to know which drive/partition will be the root partition, you only have to know either the UUID of the partition or a label you have assigned to it, and these things don't change regardless of how/where a usb device is enumerated.I'll take advantage of this thread to ask a question / express my frustration with grub: 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 still the case? OTOH, I haven't touched either lilo or grub in a long time--I don't even know which I'm using--I installed whatever Debian 7 offered, and, since it is a single boot system, (and I haven't booted in ~85 days), I don't really have an issue.
On Thursday, July 07, 2016 03:37:12 PM Michael Milliman wrote:On 07/07/2016 01:55 PM, David Wright wrote:On Thu 07 Jul 2016 at 14:39:51 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote:
-- 73's Mike, WB5VQX