Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 11.03.13 21:45, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) wrote:

> 
> Le Lun 11 mars 2013 21:16, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
> > On Mon, 11.03.13 13:08, Chris Murphy (lists at colorremedies.com) wrote:
> >
> >> On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Björn Persson <bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Or nothing at all displayed unless the user happens to know to press
> >> some key at the
> >> > right moment?
> >>
> >> A multiboot system needs at least a message to inform the user how to
> >> get to the boot manager (the GRUB menu). A Fedora only system probably
> >> should entirely suppress the menu or notice how to get to it.
> >
> > Somebody who is capable of installing multiple operating systems on one
> > machine should easily be savvy enough to remember that pressing
> > shift/esc/space/f2/whatever gets him the boot menu.
> >
> > If you installed multiple OSes and noticed that the boot menu is gone,
> > wouldn't pressing these keys be your natural reaction anyway?
> 
> My natural reaction would be to curse whoever is making me waste minutes
> in press-random-keys-to-see-if-you-can-unlock-boot games to "win" a few
> seconds. I'm pretty sure any poll would find the same result.

My natural reaction to the current grub2 menu that steals my boot is
that I start to hate Fedora and Linux for that we waste our time in ugly
boot menus and bikeshedding about them.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.