On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:46 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
In that case, why default to keeping around more than 1 kernel or installing memtest86? (We do still install memtest86 by default, right?)
The usual PC behavior of banging on the keyboard brings the boot menu even if there is no timeout. Don't laugh: banging blindly on the
Not always. This varies between systems. I've personally encountered a system where it's almost impossible to hit the grub menu (neither holding down a key nor random bashing reliably gets you to it, you have to try and time a press precisely, and you only get it about 1 try in 5-10; not a lot of fun), and several people have reported similar systems - including some where it simply seems impossible to get to the boot menu with a 0 timeout - in previous discussions about this.