Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/11/2013 09:16 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 11.03.13 13:08, Chris Murphy (lists at colorremedies.com) wrote:
>
>> On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Björn Persson <bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
>>> Or nothing at all displayed unless the user happens to know to press some key at the
>>> right moment?
>>
>> A multiboot system needs at least a message to inform the user how to
>> get to the boot manager (the GRUB menu). A Fedora only system probably
>> should entirely suppress the menu or notice how to get to it.
>
> Somebody who is capable of installing multiple operating systems on one
> machine should easily be savvy enough to remember that pressing
> shift/esc/space/f2/whatever gets him the boot menu.

In a multiboot scenario you normally once switch off all bootscreen 
suppression and will not look into again until something breaks it.

> If you installed multiple OSes and noticed that the boot menu is gone,
> wouldn't pressing these keys be your natural reaction anyway?

No. Because switching off bootmenu suppression is a one-time job, you 
will have forgotten what to do if something switches of bootmenus.


Ralf