On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:46:20 +0100 Sjoerd Simons sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk wrote:
This is about the default setup though, it would be really nice to get consistent behaviour. I would be inclined to say that the defaults should conservatively try the internal/main storage first (assuming there will be an OS is installed there) and only fallback to other options later.
I'm inclined the other way, which is to boot of a removable media first if someone has gone to the effort to plug one in. People building kiosks etc who want to lock it down to internal only can still do so.
This is the general problem of the user doing an action but the system really being unable to devine the intention behind that action.. An external storage device can have been plugged in for a lot of reasons, not just to boot from (you might have wnated to copy/inspect/change some data on the card). I would argue that the main reason for folks to plug in external storage devices into computers is not because they'd like to boot from it and furthermore that a lot of people would be confused if leaving in a storage card/stick makes the system unbootable.
I suspect this argument comes down to how you expect users to normally use the system.. Iotw as a general computing device, just like your laptop or desktop machine or as a development toy where you regularly boot from external media (I would expect the former, but that's just me).
Well the intention here is for general computing devices. Where when you get a machine you would pxe install or boot from a install image provided by the os vendor. I think we should follow how x86 works and default to external media first, then internal media followed by network. All with the user being able to override the settings either permanently or in a one off fashion.
Dennis