Re: [PATCH] Give more useful names to other bootable devices

[Will Woods <wwoods redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:57 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 13:34 -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
> > 
> > If it's a legal issue, that makes it easy.  I think the technical  
> > issue is more valid.  Rather than saying 'Other', I would vote for  
> > saying 'Bootable HFS partition' or 'Bootable NTFS partition'.  That's  
> > about as much knowledge as we have.
> 
> I would agree here.  We don't want to be like apple and call anything
> not OS X "Windows".  I hate having to boot "Windows" to get to Fedora on
> my apple hardware.

That's a terrible analogy. 

First off, Apple's BIOS stuff doesn't check the filesystem type, and we
do. So we're far more accurate about guessing the OS. Even without that
check, they're right for probably 90% of people who have a second OS on
their hardware. Including that check I'd wager we're right on 98% of
systems.

Second, we provide obvious UI to change the name, so the remaining 2% of
users - who are obviously running something *really* weird and can
therefore be assumed to be technically competent - can easily correct
the mistake.

It's just not the same.

-w