Bug #11528

Tails DVD Labeled "Windows" When Booted

Added by huertanix 2016-06-13 21:45:30 . Updated 2019-07-24 15:15:04 .

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Description

NOTE: This is one of a series of usability issues that arose from the TAILS OS training workshop on March 19th, 2016 in New York City.

When pressing the option key to boot a Tails DVD in an Apple computer, the DVD label for the TAILS option read “Windows.” This confused a number of people who thought that they made a mistake in creating the TAILS DVD. A suggestion would be to have it read “TAILS” and not “Windows” to avoid confusion.

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#1 Updated by muri 2016-06-27 01:41:19

  • Status changed from New to Confirmed

i can confirm this. but as far as i can tell, this is a problem with apples bootmanager wrongly labelling everything ‘Windows’ thats not osx (tested also with another bootable linux distribution). and we point that out in the instructions: https://tails.boum.org/install/mac/dvd/index.en.html

#2 Updated by sajolida 2016-06-28 06:20:08

  • Start date deleted (2016-06-13)
  • Type of work changed from User interface design to Research

This is what we documented in the new instructions, see:

I also think it’s a pity but we would need more research on how we could get Mac OS X display something else than Windows.

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2016-07-16 06:02:48

  • Priority changed from Normal to Low

(Apparently none of the current contributors are willing to commit to work on this, but patches are welcome!)

#4 Updated by Anonymous 2018-08-07 13:57:58

  • related to Feature #15546: Feedback needed when clicking on Persistence wizard → configure ASP gear button added

#5 Updated by Anonymous 2018-08-07 13:58:03

  • related to deleted (Feature #15546: Feedback needed when clicking on Persistence wizard → configure ASP gear button)

#6 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-24 15:15:04

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Rejected

Some Mac do that (or at least did) and some other don’t.

For the time being, we mentioned this in the installation doc but I’m not sure that we can fix this in Tails. So I’m rejecting.

https://tails.boum.org/install/mac/usb/

Please reopen if you understand why som Mac computers display “Windows” and maybe we can fix that.