Bug#954718: grub-installer: update templates for UEFI and other media than hard disks
Package: grub-installer
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
grub-installer contains outdated template strings, which should be updated
in regard of:
- MBR is outdated -> UEFI came as a successor;
- 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.
Please consider applying the attached patch.
Holger
--
Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c151656f..073d591a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
+grub-installer (1.170) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Update templates, to make them fit for UEFI systems and new sorts of
+ system storage media.
+
+ -- Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:53:18 +0100
+
grub-installer (1.169) unstable; urgency=medium
* Team upload
[ Updated translations ]
* Lithuanian (lt.po) by Tautvydas Zukauskas
-- Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:55:15 +0100
diff --git a/debian/grub-installer.templates b/debian/grub-installer.templates
index a7a0f385..c7eab6d6 100644
--- a/debian/grub-installer.templates
+++ b/debian/grub-installer.templates
@@ -1,34 +1,35 @@
Template: grub-installer/with_other_os
Type: boolean
Default: true
# :sl1:
-_Description: Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?
+_Description: Install the GRUB boot loader to your primary drive?
The following other operating systems have been detected on this
computer: ${OS_LIST}
.
If all of your operating systems are listed above, then it should be safe to
- install the boot loader to the master boot record of your first hard
- drive. When your computer boots, you will be able to choose to load one of
- these operating systems or the newly installed Debian system.
+ install the boot loader to your primary drive's UEFI partition (or master
+ boot record, for non-UEFI systems). When your computer boots, you will be
+ able to choose to load one of these operating systems or the newly installed
+ Debian system.
Template: grub-installer/only_debian
Type: boolean
Default: true
# :sl1:
-_Description: Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?
+_Description: Install the GRUB boot loader to your primary drive?
It seems that this new installation is the only operating system
on this computer. If so, it should be safe to install the GRUB boot loader
- to the master boot record of your first hard drive.
+ to your primary drive's UEFI partition (or master boot record, for non-UEFI
+ systems).
.
- Warning: If the installer failed to detect another operating system that
- is present on your computer, modifying the master boot record will make
- that operating system temporarily unbootable, though GRUB can be manually
- configured later to boot it.
+ Warning: If your computer has another operating system that the installer
+ failed to detect, this will make that operating system temporarily
+ unbootable, though GRUB can be manually configured later to boot it.
Template: grub-installer/sataraid
Type: boolean
Default: true
# :sl3:
_Description: Install the GRUB boot loader to the Serial ATA RAID disk?
Installation of GRUB on Serial ATA RAID is experimental.
.
@@ -68,41 +69,40 @@ _Description: Unable to configure GRUB
The GRUB installation has been aborted.
Template: grub-installer/bootdev
Type: string
# :sl2:
_Description: Device for boot loader installation:
You need to make the newly installed system bootable, by installing
the GRUB boot loader on a bootable device. The usual way to do this is to
- install GRUB on the master boot record of your first hard drive. If you
- prefer, you can install GRUB elsewhere on the drive, or to another drive,
- or even to a floppy.
+ install GRUB to your primary drive's UEFI partition (or master boot record,
+ for non-UEFI systems). You may instead install GRUB to a different drive
+ (or partition), or to removable media.
.
- The device should be specified as a device in /dev. Below are some
+ The device notation should be specified as a device in /dev. Below are some
examples:
- - "/dev/sda" will install GRUB to the master boot record of your first
- hard drive;
- - "/dev/sda2" will use the second partition of your first hard drive;
- - "/dev/sdc5" will use the first extended partition of your third hard
- drive;
+ - "/dev/sda" will install GRUB to your primary drive's UEFI partition (or
+ master boot record, for non-UEFI systems);
+ - "/dev/sdb" will install GRUB to a second drive (which may for instance
+ be a thumbdrive);
- "/dev/fd0" will install GRUB to a floppy.
Template: grub-installer/choose_bootdev
Type: select
Choices-C: manual, ${DEVICES_LIST}
#flag:translate!:2
__Choices: Enter device manually, ${DESCRIPTIONS}
# :sl2:
_Description: Device for boot loader installation:
You need to make the newly installed system bootable, by installing
the GRUB boot loader on a bootable device. The usual way to do this is to
- install GRUB on the master boot record of your first hard drive. If you
- prefer, you can install GRUB elsewhere on the drive, or to another drive,
- or even to a floppy.
+ install GRUB to your primary drive's UEFI partition (or master boot record,
+ for non-UEFI systems). You may instead install GRUB to a different drive
+ (or partition), or to removable media.
Template: grub-installer/password
Type: password
# :sl2:
_Description: GRUB password:
The GRUB boot loader offers many powerful interactive features, which could
be used to compromise your system if unauthorized users have access to the
machine when it is starting up. To defend against this, you may choose a
@@ -224,17 +224,17 @@ Type: text
# :sl1:
_Description: Configuring grub-efi for future usage of the removable media path
Template: debian-installer/grub-installer/title
Type: text
# Main menu item
# Translators: keep below 55 columns
# :sl1:
-_Description: Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk
+_Description: Install the GRUB boot loader
Template: rescue/menu/grub-reinstall
Type: text
# Rescue menu item
# :sl2:
_Description: Reinstall GRUB boot loader
Template: grub-installer/skip
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