impish ISO GRUB menu does not have an obvious "Install" option

[dann frazier]

On arm64, the 20211011.1 ISO boot menu has the following boot options:

 �*Ubuntu Server �
 � Boot from next volume �
 � UEFI Firmware Settings �

None of those labels is clearly an "Install" option, which caused me some confusion as I thought it was trying to boot an old on-disk install.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1946778

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This is good feedback, but this has been the case - on all grub architectures - since groovy; not something we're going to change the week of release for impish.

Note that the reason we no longer say 'install' is specifically because the same boot entry is used for both trying the live environment, and installing. This applies to both desktop installs and server installs.

[dann frazier (dannf)]

Ah, OK - I just hadn't noticed it before. Perhaps "Try or Install Ubuntu" is something we could consider in a future release.

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

+1 to "Try or Install Ubuntu"

[dann frazier (dannf)]

I noticed this is still the case w/ the jammy beta ISOs. Is now a good time to improve this, or should we wait until post jammy?

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

We have time to get this in before release. I didn't say so before but I'm happy with 'Try or Install $flavor' so I think we should JFDI.

I am making this change for both amd64 and arm64, there's nothing arm-specific to it. The change will also apply to all images, not just Ubuntu Server.

In some cases there are additional boot entries, such as:

Ubuntu (safe graphics)
OEM install (for manufacturers)
Ubuntu with the HWE kernel

I am not adding the 'Try or Install' text to these, I think people will figure it out from context.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The grub text has now been changed to "Try or Install $flavor".

[Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)]

I think I saw the string "Try or Install Ubuntu Server" when installing the "current" daily live ubuntu server image (0412 or 0412.1 version) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily-live/current/jammy-live-server-arm64.iso