On Friday, August 23, 2019 12:34:50 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > GRUB verifies the signature of the kernel before it is booted, in the > Secure Boot enabled case. Correct, but that's one architecture, but failing to load an image is a fatal error. > a. Press any key before the timeout and it won't shutdown > b. Power back on, and don't walk away, so you can press any key before > the timeout, and it won't shut down There is currently no functionality in GRUB for a timeout upon a fatal error. If there was, how exactly would that be useful? You'd get back to your system, and it's just shut down for some random reason. You power it back on, expecting to get back to work, and suddenly there's the same error that could have just been waiting for you right there on the screen. Regardless, if implemented, that works when it's your only system. What do you do when you're a sysadmin managing a few hundred workstations? Just wait for users to complain about individual systems? > The only way you're going to troubleshoot bootloader problems is > having the equivalent of physical access. Right, that or IPMI or KVM, but I don't know what that would have to do with implementing a timeout in GRUB. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Splentity https://splentity.com/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
