On 03/11/2013 05:44 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 11.03.13 17:24, Máirín Duffy (duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >>> Having multiple triggers for this sounds OK, but making all keys >>> triggers for this sounds suboptimal, since you might "buttdial" the boot >>> menu then, which sounds suboptimal. >> >> Lennart, what you're suggesting is if the user presses the appropriate >> F-key too early, they'd end up in the BIOS menu instead of the GRUB >> menu? Is that really that big of an issue - the type of users who'd >> want > > The firmware setup is something hw specific, and usually something like > F12. But in our boot loader we could just pick any random key and show the boot > menu if we notice that key is pressed while we go through the boot > menu. That random key could be shift, or space or enter, or esc, or F8, > or Shift+F8, or whatever. Okay, right. The problem with that is, though, that users won't know what it is, which is why maybe it's better to accept across a bunch of different keys? (This makes sense right?) ~m -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
