Hi, Steve McIntyre <st...@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 - MBR is outdated -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 -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076