Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:52:24PM -0400, Mike Pinkerton wrote:

> I recall there was some objection about BIOS buffer clearing, and
> don't know what problems that would present to this proposal.  On
> the plus side, though, there wouldn't be any need for gnarly auto-
> detection of error conditions.

Worse than that, having grub check for a held key will significantly 
slow down the boot process even if there's no key being held.

> By the way, in this brave new fast boot world, how is one expected
> to get to the BIOS or firmware set-up programs?

Use UI that sets an EFI variable and then reboot.

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