Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Ian Malone]

On 11 March 2013 20:43, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Björn Persson
> <bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
>> Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>> > If some text like "Press Esc now to choose which operating system to
>>> > boot." would be displayed, then the pause would need to be long enough
>>> > for the user to read and understand the instruction and then reach for
>>> > the right key – and the terser the text is made the harder it will be to
>>> > understand. I estimate that at least 15 seconds would be needed. Adding
>>> > "Press Enter to save a few seconds." would make it even more text to
>>> > read and understand.
>>>
>>> Yikes. On a modern system the BIOS POST finishes within 500ms, and
>>> kernel+userspace in 2s. And you want us to spend 15s for nothing in the
>>> boot loader, for a feature only the fewest people need, and those who
>>> need anyway know how to get?
>>
>> No, those 15 seconds were my argument for why it should NOT be done
>> that way. As I already wrote, if the Grub menu is simply displayed,
>> then five seconds is enough. Much better. And if you want to save those
>> five seconds you just need to press Enter.
>
> I'd argue "saving this 5 seconds" is more common than wanting to mess
> with the grub menu (maybe unless you dual boot).
> So if the only OS is fedora, we should just boot.
>
> If you really want to menu hold down any key.

Kernel update breaks system. User ignorant of hold-down key approach
is stuck. Menu at least advertises possibility of alternative.

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