On 03/10/2008 04:46 PM, Andrew Farris wrote:
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 03/09/2008 07:07 PM, David Boles wrote:
>> Callum Lerwick wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 17:41 -0400, David Boles wrote:
>>>> I don't think that "Aunt Tillie" should be using a bleeding
edge Linux
>>>> distribution such as Fedora provides. And if "Nephew Johnie"
installs
>>>> it
>>>> for her and she has problems with it that she can not deal with
>>>> herself I
>>>> think it is "Nephew Johny's" fault for installing it for
her. What do
>>>> you
>>>> think?
>>> I think you missed the point that this is just as painful for Joe
>>> Fedora
>>> Developer and CS Major as it is Aunt Tillie.
>>
>> "just as painful?" Do you mean the error or that "Joe Fedora
Developer"
>> does not know enough to press a key and select the other kernel to
>> boot? I
>> have often wondered why Fedora chooses to hide the other kernel. Maybe
>> "Aunt Tillie", with a little help, could see that 'kernel A'
does not
>> work. Hmm... so maybe I should try 'kernel B'.
>>
>>
>
> The first thing I do after installing Fedora is remove the "hiddenmenu"
> line in /etc/grub.conf... why _is_ that the default, anyway??
>
Good question. I think its a terrible idea to hide the menu, and I've
posted to at least 5 forum questions where the user simply didn't
realize pushing a button at the hidden menu would let them see their
windows install... "omg Fedora install does not let me boot windows".
A pretty menu, but at what cost?
Well the timeout should be changed to something reasonable like 5-10 seconds.