Bug#954718: grub-installer: update templates for UEFI and other media than hard disks
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 04:09:53PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>On 3/22/20 3:59 PM, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> - MBR is outdated -> UEFI came as a successor;
>
>What about the boot mechanisms of all other architectures?
>
>Open-Firmware machines use GRUB as well and they have a boot sector.
>
>Other architectures use GRUB via chainloading with uboot, so you need
>to include this well if you want to be comprehensive. And s390x
>supports GRUB as well.
>
>Do you want to include all these, too?
ACK. Probably worth using more generic terminology if we can. Instead
of talking about MBR or UEFI at all, maybe just aim for "primary
drive" or similar?
>> - hard disks are no longer the only/mainly used storage media (depending on
>> architecture); these days we are installing OS'es on SD cards or USB
>> thumbdrives for example.
>
>What about virtual devices? Is "drive" appropriate in these cases or should
>it be "disk image"?
It's not always easy to tell reliably if you're installing to a
virtual device. It's still a "drive" as far as most people are
concerned, so I'd just stick with that.
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