On Mar 12, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Jiří Eischmann <eischmann(a)redhat.com> wrote:
New kernels bring a lot of
regressions and we don't have enough test coverage to avoid them. The
general solution to those problems is to go back to the last working
kernel version. But by making it less obvious we make these frequent
problems more difficult to solve.
This is completely specious. A user who considers falling back to an older kernel as a
troubleshooting step also knows how this selection is made and where to go look for it.
That they don't know the key to press is beside the point, they know they need to find
it. Their trouble is brief.
There is zero information in the GRUB menu that conveys kernel fallback as a
troubleshooting method. It's completely non-obvious until you learn it (from a source
other than the GRUB menu).
Chris Murphy