Re: Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk

Hi,

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> 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