Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Björn Persson (bjorn at rombobjörn.se) said:
>> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> > - Turn off the graphical grub screen
>> >
>> > Even if we are not able to suppress the boot menu entirely, or having a clean boot menu like this: https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-lock-login-boot/bootmenu.png, avoiding the graphical screen will be a win in terms of reduced visual noise.
>>
>> What would there be instead? A text-mode boot menu? Or nothing at all
>> displayed unless the user happens to know to press some key at the
>> right moment?
>
> Ideally, we'd detect whether the previous boot failed in some way and only
> offer the menu then, or if the user chooses to reboot into the menu.
> (There's still some systemd/grub interaction work required for both of
> these.)

It use to only be displayed if there was more than one OS configured
or if the CTRL was held down. Having to press a particular key means
you have to get it at the second or two where grub isn't displayed.
The Ctrl option is quite nice as you can do it before the BIOS
disappears.

Peter