Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> 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. > > The majority of all users is able to perform the cognitive process to > that "hard disk" means "installation device" and "storage medium" here > is very confusing since that normally refers to a data disk and not > the system disk.
Leaving it as is might however lead to the wrong assumption that grub can only be installed on a hard disk. Or with other words, grub - for some specific reason - does not work on SD cards (or USB thumb drives or ...). Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
