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Re: Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk



On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 10:11 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 3/18/20 9:58 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > while investigating a grub installation failure, I came across the main menu
> > entry of grub-installer: 
> > 	"Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk"
> > 
> > This is no longer optimal, since we have flash/SSD drives, SD cards etc. where
> > OS'es are installed on.
> > 
> > So this should be changed, similar to the "rename 'CD/CD-ROM' into 
> > 'installation media' approach".
> 
> According to that logic you would have to replace the save icon in every
> desktop application because we're no longer using floppy disks.
[...]

That has already happened to many (most?) applications.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Unix is many things to many people,
but it's never been everything to anybody.


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