Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

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> Von: Máirín Duffy
> On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> > Is one line of text really that significant of a problem to present?
> 
> I'm pretty sure it is because of where we are in the process at that
> point. For example, translations - can we render Indic or CJK glyphs to
> the screen at this point in the boot process? I'm not quite sure that's
> possible? Another thing with translations is they take up additional
> disk space and I think (don't quote me on this, maybe Peter or one of
> the other grub experts could speak up) grub2 is a bit chubby compared to
> grub, but its space usage is a concern so to not have to have all the
> translation files for the languages we support would definitely be good.
> (grub2's girth is one of the reasons - on upstream's recommendation -
> that we don't allow installing the bootloader to a partition now.)

What about pulling the message stuff into plymouth and using dracut to
trigger a reboot which shows the grub menu? Something along the lines:
"Press ESC to see deatils or 'b' to enter the bootloader"

This way we would avoid showing the grub menu, but still give the users to 
trigger a reboot into the grub menu .

The main reason against such an approach is - obvioulsy - the need for a
reboot.
And on the other side I dunno if dracut is capable to modify grub2's config
(to display the menu upon the next boot)

- fabian
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