Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 11.03.13 13:08, Chris Murphy (lists at colorremedies.com) wrote:

> On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Björn Persson <bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
> > Or nothing at all displayed unless the user happens to know to press some key at the
> > right moment?
> 
> A multiboot system needs at least a message to inform the user how to
> get to the boot manager (the GRUB menu). A Fedora only system probably
> should entirely suppress the menu or notice how to get to it.

Somebody who is capable of installing multiple operating systems on one
machine should easily be savvy enough to remember that pressing
shift/esc/space/f2/whatever gets him the boot menu.

If you installed multiple OSes and noticed that the boot menu is gone,
wouldn't pressing these keys be your natural reaction anyway?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.