grub support?

Posted Jun 15, 2011 10:20 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: grub support? by cmccabe
Parent article: Fedora 16 to use Btrfs as its default filesystem

> However... the grub->grub2 transition annoyed me in several ways. There were a lot of changes that just seemed gratuitous. Why did partitioning numbering change to start at 1 rather than 0?

I think this was to bring it in line with how everyone else numbers PC partitions. 1..4 are the primary/extended partitions, 5+ are the logical partitions. Having to subtract one whenever I dealt with Grub was frankly annoying so I am glad they made the change. :)