Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:30, Fabian Deutsch a écrit :
>> Von: Máirín Duffy
>> On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wrote:
>> > Is one line of text really that significant of a problem to present?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it is because of where we are in the process at that
>> point. For example, translations - can we render Indic or CJK glyphs to
>> the screen at this point in the boot process? I'm not quite sure that's
>> possible? Another thing with translations is they take up additional
>> disk space and I think (don't quote me on this, maybe Peter or one of
>> the other grub experts could speak up) grub2 is a bit chubby compared to
>> grub, but its space usage is a concern so to not have to have all the
>> translation files for the languages we support would definitely be good.
>> (grub2's girth is one of the reasons - on upstream's recommendation -
>> that we don't allow installing the bootloader to a partition now.)
>
> What about pulling the message stuff into plymouth and using dracut to
> trigger a reboot which shows the grub menu? Something along the lines:
> "Press ESC to see deatils or 'b' to enter the bootloader"

Plymouth is not a mandatory boot process element right now, precisely
because people who cared about fast boot found it unnecessary, and people
who cared about maintainability also found it got in the way. Please do
not advocate hardwiring it again.

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Nicolas Mailhot