Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mer 13 mars 2013 16:52, Máirín Duffy a écrit :
>>> From: Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>
>>> Why not put it in the control panel on the running system along with
>>> other system-level options, though? Doesn't that make more sense rather
>>> than separating it out for access only in a completely different
>>> context?
>
> On 03/13/2013 11:26 AM, John.Florian at dart.biz wrote:
>> Because maybe your computer boots just fine but you're screens are all
>> garbled or just black.
>
> This is a really good point. In this situation I probably would have
> just gone to a tty and edited the grub conf file to default to an older
> kernel if that happened, rather than play whack-a-mole with the grub
> timeout. Just trying to point out that you can solve this issue without
> entering grub at boot-time.

Máirín,

When the gfx driver puts the gpu in such a state, tty is often garbled
too. It uses the same hardware.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot