Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Máirín Duffy]

On 03/11/2013 05:44 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 11.03.13 17:24, Máirín Duffy (duffy at fedoraproject.org) wrote:
> 
>>> 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, what you're suggesting is if the user presses the appropriate
>> F-key too early, they'd end up in the BIOS menu instead of the GRUB
>> menu? Is that really that big of an issue - the type of users who'd
>> want
> 
> The firmware setup is something hw specific, and usually something like
> F12. But in our boot loader we could just pick any random key and show the boot
> menu if we notice that key is pressed while we go through the boot
> menu. That random key could be shift, or space or enter, or esc, or F8,
> or Shift+F8, or whatever.

Okay, right. The problem with that is, though, that users won't know
what it is, which is why maybe it's better to accept across a bunch of
different keys? (This makes sense right?)

~m