Improving the Fedora boot experience

[John.Florian at dart.biz]

> From: Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>
> > Kernel update breaks system. User ignorant of hold-down key approach
> > is stuck. Menu at least advertises possibility of alternative.
> 
> This logic doesn't work. The user ignorant of holding down even 
> random keys, let alone what will become a common knowledge key, is 
> also ignorant of the existence of a boot menu, and even more 
> ignorant of the notion they need to choose a prior kernel.

And said users are supposed to become more enlightened by obscuring the 
boot loader with an invisible cloak just because grub burns your retinas? 
Here's an idea, just close your eyes while your machine boots and dream of 
unicorns or whatever.  I for one learned a hell of a lot about *nix 
systems by playing with (among many other things) the the kernel command 
line and doing things like "init=/bin/bash".  While I find grub quite 
arcane, I do like to tinker with low-level details that affect the 
higher-level things.  Such tinkering got me a decent career.  Like it or 
not, general purpose PC hardware needs a boot loader.

--
John Florian
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