On 5/24/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Heh, I don't think it's controversial at all. I think it's good to be forward looking. If we remove the necessities of having a boot menu, then having an accessable boot menu sort of falls away there too. However I don't think you can get away with that on dual boot systems where you want to be able to select what operating system you boot from.
There are only two reasons to hit the boot menu that I've seen on any machine where I'm frontline support for. I don't use a11y support so I can't comment on any aspect of that. 1) Dual booting with windows. This one has th have an easily discoverable or easily learned solution i think, since this impacts non-geek users who aren't necessary doing their own technical support. Holding down a special key-combo to get to an operating system selection would work fine i think... if it works... and we can convince keyboard manufacturers to start pre-labelling their keyboards with hinting like a little penguin on the default key to hold down...or stickers to send out with each boxset of fedora. 2) Hardware troubleshooting by twiddling boot time kernel parameters on the fly via grub's editting features, or falling back to an older kernel. If I had to do something to grub.conf while booted into the linux system to turn that boot menu back on for troubleshooting I wouldn't be a bent out of shape. Though of course it would impact my workflow, and that's always a bad thing. -jef"yippie stickers!!!!!"spaleta -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
