On 3/23/20 5:43 PM, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> 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.
I understand your motivation but I don't think you can come up with a
one-fits-all in this situation as there are just too many different
possible combinations of boot loader installation locations (boot sector,
EFI directory, chainloader) and disk types.
While I totally agree that Linux isn't exclusively installed to hard disks *,
I don't think the messages are particularly misleading, especially since
the GRUB sources itself still use the "hard disk" terminology everywhere.
I think "hard disk" is just understood as the generic term for a system
disk on which the operating system is installed and I assume everyone
who understands the concept of disks and partitions would also know
why it's called "hard disk".
Adrian
* = Installing to other drives than hard-disks isn't actually that new,
the NeXT Cube from 1990 didn't actually have a hard disk but an
MO disk as its primary disk drive.
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