Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Lun 11 mars 2013 20:57, Bill Nottingham a écrit :
> Björn Persson (bjorn at rombobjörn.se) said:
>> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> > - Turn off the graphical grub screen
>> >
>> > Even if we are not able to suppress the boot menu entirely, or having
>> a clean boot menu like this:
>> https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-lock-login-boot/bootmenu.png,
>> avoiding the graphical screen will be a win in terms of reduced visual
>> noise.
>>
>> What would there be instead? A text-mode boot menu? Or nothing at all
>> displayed unless the user happens to know to press some key at the
>> right moment?
>
> Ideally, we'd detect whether the previous boot failed in some way and only
> offer the menu then, or if the user chooses to reboot into the menu.
> (There's still some systemd/grub interaction work required for both of
> these.)

The problem is that if you specify the sequence by assuming perfect error
detection, and ship with less-than-perfect automagic, you end up with lots
of users complaining the system is trying to out-guess them and failing
miserably. If you have a boot failure you're already in the problem zone
and it is the worst possible time to throw new problems at your users.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot