Le Mar 12 mars 2013 16:09, Gerd Hoffmann a écrit :
Hi,
>> Keep in mind that the not show the menu by default plan depends on
>> the bootspec changes, and that will include a gui tool which will
>> allow users to select things like show the menu (and then it won't have
>> a timeout so be easier to get to), or even to directly select the
>> kernel to boot next time.
>
> Any gui tool requires a successful boot
>
> Successful means kernel ok, systemd ok, selinux ok, x/wayland ok, gdm
> ok,
> gnome-shell ok
> (replace with other de equivalents)
>
> There are so many parts there where we *fail* the user regularly I don't
> see how can anyone reasonably propose to build any safety net over them.
>
> For example, how are you going to deal with gfx drivers that break after
> a
> kernel update? The system thinks all is fine, even though the display
> necessary for any gui is garbage.
Well. lilo (anyone remembers?) had a cool feature to address that, and
for grub1 patches where floating around to implement something simliar.
You could do "lilo -R $kernel $args".
This is not a solution to deal with everyday Fedora kernel updates that do
break gfx drivers every once in a while. The computer is here to help the
user not the reverse. Every time you exchange some computer work with some
human work you lose.
--
Nicolas Mailhot