Re: Hiding the grub menu by default on single OS installs

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What about users that don't use a graphical login manager?  Personally I
*like* seeing boot messages so that I know what is going on.

Having the menu available is also quite useful for booting into rescue
mode or selecting a different kernel.


On 05/31/2018 06:23 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm working on improving the Fedora boot experience, with the
> end goal being a user pressing the on button and then going
> to the graphical login manager without him seeing any
> text messages / menus filled with technical jargon.
>
> IIRC we used to hide the grub-menu by default on single
> OS installs, but we seemed to have stopped doing that,
> for new Fedora 29 installs I would like us to start
> hiding the menu by default on single OS installs again,
> see:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu
>
> The goal if this email is to:
> 1) Give people an advance warning about the plan to change
> this so we can discuss this early on
>
> 2) See if anyone knows why we stopped doing this, I think
> we may simply have stopped doing this to simplify to bootconfig
> code in anaconda and because we did not always identify the
> single OS case correctly, but I wonder if there were other
> reasons?
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
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