Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 11, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 March 2013 20:43, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

This logic doesn't work. The user ignorant of holding down even random keys, let alone what will become a common knowledge key, is also ignorant of the existence of a boot menu, and even more ignorant of the notion they need to choose a prior kernel.

Kernel updates breaking systems is uniquely linux. Multiple kernel versions installed per system is also uniquely linux. Neither Windows nor OS X have these things.

If you know about such troubleshooting methods, you know you need a menu. So you're going to try various keys, knowing you need to get a GRUB menu.

By the way, with Fedora 18, Recovery options in the Advanced submenu are now suppressed. So users need to know how to edit GRUB entries to get to single user, emergency or rescue modes, as a troubleshoot method. This is obscure.

Chris Murphy