On Tuesday 24 November 2009 10:07:19 Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 21:28 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > > I really don't see a good reason not to have it. I know that Windows > > refugees like quick boots, but don't see 3 seconds making that big a > > difference. > > > > (Dinosaur that I am, I've always thought that there is too much emphasis > > on quick boots with pretty splash screens, but that's just the old vs. > > the new and all that rot.) > > FWIW, I would support this. As a data point, in my experience people > don't count the bootloader time in deciding if a system 'boots fast' or > not. If they see a fast boot from _after_ the bootloader to desktop, > they consider it to be a fast booting system. Yeah, unless you bypass > the boot menu this isn't a particularly logical perspective, but people > are not that logical =) so I don't believe we'd lose much in terms of > people's perceptions of Fedora as 'booting fast' or otherwise, by making > such a change. > +1 I routinely switch to the "F2" terminal to change the grub configuration. I change the timeout to 9 because I have been bitten too many times by an install which then has bootup problems. I have an additional incentive to change the grub.conf. I use a KVM switch and I need to add "psmouse.proto=imps" for my wheel-trackball to work properly. Gene -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
