Improving the Fedora boot experience

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Mon Mar 11 21:10:30 UTC 2013


On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:

> 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.

When I said "at least" I meant "at most". 

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

With a sample size of one, apparently the answer is yes except for Esc which I did not think to try, yet is the only key GRUB responds to. Documentation says "any key". I've filed a bug.


Chris Murphy


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