On 03/10/2008 04:46 PM, Andrew Farris wrote: > Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> On 03/09/2008 07:07 PM, David Boles wrote: >>> Callum Lerwick wrote: >>>> On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 17:41 -0400, David Boles wrote: >>>>> I don't think that "Aunt Tillie" should be using a bleeding edge Linux >>>>> distribution such as Fedora provides. And if "Nephew Johnie" installs >>>>> it >>>>> for her and she has problems with it that she can not deal with >>>>> herself I >>>>> think it is "Nephew Johny's" fault for installing it for her. What do >>>>> you >>>>> think? >>>> I think you missed the point that this is just as painful for Joe >>>> Fedora >>>> Developer and CS Major as it is Aunt Tillie. >>> >>> "just as painful?" Do you mean the error or that "Joe Fedora Developer" >>> does not know enough to press a key and select the other kernel to >>> boot? I >>> have often wondered why Fedora chooses to hide the other kernel. Maybe >>> "Aunt Tillie", with a little help, could see that 'kernel A' does not >>> work. Hmm... so maybe I should try 'kernel B'. >>> >>> >> >> The first thing I do after installing Fedora is remove the "hiddenmenu" >> line in /etc/grub.conf... why _is_ that the default, anyway?? >> > > Good question. I think its a terrible idea to hide the menu, and I've > posted to at least 5 forum questions where the user simply didn't > realize pushing a button at the hidden menu would let them see their > windows install... "omg Fedora install does not let me boot windows". > > A pretty menu, but at what cost? > Well the timeout should be changed to something reasonable like 5-10 seconds. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
