Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 11.03.13 22:30, Björn Persson (bjorn at rombobjörn.se) wrote:

> Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Mon, 11.03.13 21:20, Björn Persson (bjorn at rombobjörn.se) wrote:
> > 
> > > Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > > It use to only be displayed if there was more than one OS configured
> > > > or if the CTRL was held down. Having to press a particular key means
> > > > you have to get it at the second or two where grub isn't displayed.
> > > > The Ctrl option is quite nice as you can do it before the BIOS
> > > > disappears.
> > > 
> > > But how are users supposed to discover it?
> > 
> > By hooking this up to keys people would natrually try, such as shift,
> > space, enter, escape, or whatever windows does for their boot menu stuff.
> 
> I would probably pound frantically on the keyboard trying to hit the
> right key during some unknown, short interval. If there were no
> interval at all and the right solution were to be holding a key at the
> right moment, then I'd probably have about a 50% chance of not pressing
> any key at that moment.

Gummiboot is happy if you simply keep them pressed all the time.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.