Improving the Fedora boot experience

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Mon Mar 11 21:08:15 UTC 2013


On Mon, 11.03.13 17:05, Máirín Duffy (duffy at fedoraproject.org) wrote:

> Hi Seth,
> 
> On 03/11/2013 04:20 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> > I'm mostly concerned with making new professionals.
> > 
> > We have to make the secret information discoverable if we want people
> > to poke and prod around.
> > 
> > If the bioses and systems years ago had been opaque we wouldn't have
> > gotten this far.
> 
> How do you feel about Ryan's suggestion to make grub appear on any key
> press (instead of having it mapped to any one specific key?)

Having multiple triggers for this sounds OK, but making all keys
triggers for this sounds suboptimal, since you might "buttdial" the boot
menu then, which sounds suboptimal. 

Lennart

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