GRUB menu hidden by default?

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 01:26 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 04.01.2013 01:21, schrieb drago01:
> > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> On Thu 03 Jan 2013 04:55:22 PM EST, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >>> Documentation says "The GRUB menu defaults to being hidden,
> >>> except on dual-boot systems." but as far as I know this hasn't been > true since Fedora 16 when GRUB2 started being used. Is there a
> >>> plan to revert back to a hidden GRUB menu at some point or is the > current behavior stable?
> >>
> >> It should be hidden for final releases, but not for testing and
> >> development releases. You may have upgraded from a beta or test
> >> release, in which case your grub config file allowing it to be active
> >> carried over when you upgraded to final.
> > 
> > No it is indeed not hidden when GRUB2 is being used see
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737339
> 
> and why in the world needs th emenu to be hidden?

Makes boot faster. It's not so much 'hidden' as '0 second timeout'. This
was part of a feature for speeding up boot, several releases back.

> i would love to also get rid of this useless submenu for
> differenct kernel-versions and ALL the fancy stuff in GRUB
> which is not needed for a clean system boot

That all comes from upstream grub2.
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