Hi,
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >
> >I have attached an updated patch, which might be considered.
>
> I think this is better, yes. :-) Taking into account Adrian's
> feedback, maybe s/primary drive/hard disk/ in most places?
No, with Justin as native speaker, we came to "primary drive", so I will s
On 3/26/20 2:05 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> I think this is better, yes. :-) Taking into account Adrian's
> feedback, maybe s/primary drive/hard disk/ in most places?
>
> Thanks for this effort - it's definitely good to move away from the
> misleading "MBR" text.
Sounds reasonable to me.
Adrian
Hey Holger,
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:03:04PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Steve McIntyre 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 - MBR is outdated -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
On 3/25/20 3:03 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.
>
> I have attached an updated patch, which might be considered.
Well, my opini
Hi,
Steve McIntyre 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 - MBR is outdated -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 u
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"
Hi,
Steve McIntyre 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 - MBR is outdated -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 u
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 - MBR is outdated -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 secto
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 - MBR is outdated -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 incl
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
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