Bug#954718: grub-installer: update templates for UEFI and other media than hard disks
Hi,
Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> 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 - MBR is outdated -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.
Just trying to improve the old situation "Installing to a hard disk / drive".
If people think we should stay at that old situation, feel free to ignore this
bugreport.
Otherwise provide a better patch, if you can.
Holger
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