On Mon, 11.03.13 21:45, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Le Lun 11 mars 2013 21:16, Lennart Poettering a écrit : > > On Mon, 11.03.13 13:08, Chris Murphy (lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > >> On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Björn Persson <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> wrote: > >> > Or nothing at all displayed unless the user happens to know to press > >> some key at the > >> > right moment? > >> > >> 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. > > > > Somebody who is capable of installing multiple operating systems on one > > machine should easily be savvy enough to remember that pressing > > shift/esc/space/f2/whatever gets him the boot menu. > > > > If you installed multiple OSes and noticed that the boot menu is gone, > > wouldn't pressing these keys be your natural reaction anyway? > > My natural reaction would be to curse whoever is making me waste minutes > in press-random-keys-to-see-if-you-can-unlock-boot games to "win" a few > seconds. I'm pretty sure any poll would find the same result. My natural reaction to the current grub2 menu that steals my boot is that I start to hate Fedora and Linux for that we waste our time in ugly boot menus and bikeshedding about them. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
