Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 11.03.13 21:40, Björn Persson (bjorn at rombobjörn.se) wrote:

> Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > If some text like "Press Esc now to choose which operating system to
> > > boot." would be displayed, then the pause would need to be long enough
> > > for the user to read and understand the instruction and then reach for
> > > the right key – and the terser the text is made the harder it will be to
> > > understand. I estimate that at least 15 seconds would be needed. Adding
> > > "Press Enter to save a few seconds." would make it even more text to
> > > read and understand.  
> > 
> > Yikes. On a modern system the BIOS POST finishes within 500ms, and
> > kernel+userspace in 2s. And you want us to spend 15s for nothing in the
> > boot loader, for a feature only the fewest people need, and those who
> > need anyway know how to get?
> 
> No, those 15 seconds were my argument for why it should NOT be done
> that way. As I already wrote, if the Grub menu is simply displayed,
> then five seconds is enough. Much better. And if you want to save those
> five seconds you just need to press Enter.

No, 0s are about enough. Press some key while boot up your machine,
that's fine. 

(And on EFI systems that do not initialize USB anymore during POST, you
have to go through the OS to get into the boot loader anyway...)

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.