Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:51:10 -0400
Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> wrote:

...snip...

> So, the problems with that when we implemented it on grub1 were
> numerous, but basically they're all of one variety:
> 
> 1) we have to clear the buffer at some point because BIOSes often
> leave junk in them
> 2) it's unclear to the user when the buffers are cleared

Could we do something here? flash a Fedora logo or something?

> 3) if the user holds down the key, the BIOS complains that the key is
> stuck,
> 4) if the user doesn't hold down the key, but just presses it, it's
> easy to do so too early

Yep. 
 
> So I'd really rather have it so that /under normal circumstances/, if
> the user wants the non-default kernel or parameters, they tell us so
> before rebooting.

well, thats fine if they realize it... but yeah, not a problem with
easy solutions I guess. ;( 

kevin
 

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