Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 11.03.13 17:53, Máirín Duffy (duffy at fedoraproject.org) wrote:

> 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?)

Yes, that's what I was suggesting. Maybe accept any of Shift, Esc, or F8
to get into the boot menu. I don't like Space too much for this, because
it is too easy to buttdial it, but the others are probably things people
would try on their own if the wonder what it might be.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.