On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:57 PM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:38 PM, <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>I assume there
> must be technical problems that have prevented the bootloader theme from
> panning out, but we already have the login screen in Fedora, and the spinner
> plymouth theme is available just waiting to be enabled should we fail to
> design a quality Fedora-branded replacement for charge.
There's no technical problem other than the usual obtuseness of GRUB.
The issue is one of resources. The openSUSE and Ubuntu folks put in
the effort to make and support their fancy pants bootloader screens
and Fedora hasn't done that. I do remember an attempt and it caused a
lot of problems varying from unreadable screens on some systems, to
impossibly slow navigation when trying to manually edit bootloader
entries (in text) on other systems. *shrug*
This was in the early GRUB2 days, I don't remember if it was as far
back as version 1.98 or if it was a final release but it wouldn't
surprise me if there are a bunch of fixed bugs. However, Fedora has
always used a fairly up to date and more upstream GRUB than other
distros who heavily patch theirs.
My memory on the subject suggests that the issue was that when we first attempted this, we were still supporting a LOT of hardware that was incapable of running in modeset at early boot. As a result, the fancy-pants GRUB2 wouldn't display on those systems.
Given that we are no longer shipping install media for Workstation on anything but x86_64 systems, I think that constraint is lifted and we could reconsider doing it again.
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