Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 11.03.13 18:51, Matthew Garrett (mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org) wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 06:49:16PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> > We should not only turn off the graphical screen, but the entire thing
> > should get turned off unless the user presses some key. 
> 
> It's worth noting that many modern systems will not register keypresses 
> during boot by default. Moving in this direction shouldn't happen until 
> there's worthwhile support in the desktop UI for using the boot 
> indicators spec.

We are working on this in the systemd context. We will provide a tiny
mechanism, similar to localed/timedated/hostnamed that can be used by
desktop UIs to choose "boot into firmware", and "boot into other OS"
features, which can then be exposed on the shutdown button in the UI, or
in some configuration applet thingy or wherever the desktop UI wants to
put it.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.