Re: Trouble booting from a large USB hard drive

[Isaac Dupree]

Colin Watson wrote:
> Unfortunately, I rather suspect that the very problem being addressed
> there means that we won't be able to implement your idea automatically.

Me too, but for this reason:

putting /boot near the beginning will be normal partitioner stuff, but 
this person's reason for caring about the partition order is that he 
knows which partition he wants to be mounted by Windows, and that's "#1".

Which is an idea that could be implemented in a GUI, given the right 
libraries, (potentially though, if there's a different current 
partition-#1, at the expense of anything that refers to *that* partition 
by number) (and it might be too hacky an idea, i.e. being 
Windows-related and all, for gnu/linux developers to want to support so 
cleanly anyway)