Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 13, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

>>> 
> 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.

Garbled video is an edge case, but it's a realistic one for any distribution that aggressively pushes new kernels.

When changing video resolutions, the same thing could happen. At the time the resolution changes, at least on Gnome, Windows, OS X, a dialog appears with options to Accept or Revert the change, Revert as a default, as well as a timer. If the user doesn't explicitly accept the change with a mouse click, the change is rejected just in case the video is garbled.

Perhaps something similar can be leveraged for a one time boot, just to ensure at least video is functioning?

Chris Murphy