Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Alec Leamas]

On 2013-03-12 12:45, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I would love to see F19 make a good first impression. The first time you see something Fedora-related on the screen currently is the graphical grub screen, followed by the filling-in-Fedora of Plymouth, followed by the gdm login screen.
> <snip>
>
> Can we postpone this tinkering with colors, logos, pixel positioning,
> and bootloader defaults that matter only for users that actively watch
> for them, until basic functionality in the ordinary use case that
> users _have to_ interact with is solid?  Like having a prompt for the
> hard disk passphrase that tells the user in text what is necessary,
> and actually looks like a text input field?  (Have you seen how
> confused a newbie is when turning on a Linux computer owned by
> somebody else and encountering the prompt?)
>      Mirek
This is  a bootloader aspect. As for the continued boot, there is the 
case when a boot which normally goes "fast" suddenly stalls without any 
user feedback when doing a disk check. This is actually a source of FUD. 
The easy fix here would be something like "Press F1 to see what's going 
on". Many (admittedly not all) users would then find fsck counting 
blocks and find some  comfort in that.