Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Denys Vlasenko]

On 03/11/2013 09:50 PM, Björn Persson wrote:
> Chris Murphy wrote:
>> A multiboot system needs at least a message to inform the user how to get to the boot manager (the GRUB menu). A Fedora only system probably should entirely suppress the menu or notice how to get to it.
> 
> What if I need to revert to the previous kernel, or add some kernel
> parameter to get the system up enough to solve some boot problem?
> 
> Detecting that the previous boot failed is nice and all

...and impossible.

System may be very sure it booted just fine. It can easily
be completely unaware that display isn't actually displaying
any image at all, because there is a tiny buglet in the new
version of X or video driver.