Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Fabian Deutsch]

> Von: Máirín Duffy 
> On 03/12/2013 08:30 AM, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> > 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"
> 
> This is an interesting idea, but I don't think plymouth makes it any
> easier to display CJK & Indic glyphs. (Please someone more technical
> tell me if I'm wrong here, I vaguely remember this being an issue when
> we wanted to add a messagse to fedup)

I hoped that it would be easier to localize plymouth compared to grub2. In
addition to that we'd also get rid of problems resulting of the
interaction between grub2 s gfx stack and the kernel/plymouth, and last but
not least we wouldn't need to maintain a theme for grub.

- fabian