On 11/03/13 09:58 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
- Turn off the graphical grub screen Even if we are not able to suppress the boot menu entirely, or having a clean boot menu like this: https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-lock-login-boot/bootmenu.png, avoiding the graphical screen will be a win in terms of reduced visual noise.
The intended design here is that grub has a 0 timeout if installed in a single boot configuration, and a 5 second timeout if installed in a multiboot configuration.
Since the switch to grub2, it has in fact had a 5 second timeout in each case. This is basically a bug and really should just be fixed as such - except as mjg59's note that some systems now apparently make it hard to bring up the menu in the 0 timeout case dictates.
The "progress bar that indicates the progress in 'booting the bootloader'" does not indicate 'progress in booting the bootloader', it's just a graphical representation of the timeout. It counts down 5 seconds. Admittedly I don't see what a progress-bar-like-widget contributes there, but it's not *really* a progress bar, it just looks like one - it doesn't actually take 5 seconds to 'boot' grub.
It seems to me like we might want to co-ordinate work on the multiboot grub config fd.o spec thing you're working on, and revising how we do bootloader configuration, if we're going to do that.
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