On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung(a)0pointer.de> wrote:
On Mon, 11.03.13 13:08, Chris Murphy (lists(a)colorremedies.com)
wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Björn Persson <bjorn(a)xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>
wrote:
> > Or nothing at all displayed unless the user happens to know to press some key at
the
> > right moment?
>
> A multiboot system needs at least a message to inform the user how to
> get to the boot manager (the GRUB menu). A Fedora only system probably
> should entirely suppress the menu or notice how to get to it.
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.
If you installed multiple OSes and noticed that the boot menu is gone,
wouldn't pressing these keys be your natural reaction anyway?
Lennart
I've been a hardware evaluator. Absolutely not, because different
hardware components have different, and fundamentally unpredictable,
configuration keys. Hiding the particular configuration key for the
bootloader, that may be only work for a few seconds in a lengthy boot
process on, say, an HP high end controller with several disk
controller cards, is wasting the system engineer's time with repeated
reboots where *she can't tell when to push the escape button without
triggering the wrong configuration tool*.
I would reject out of hand tools that did this.