On 05/31/2018 04:54 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
Plus, there's an upside: if you're hammering F11 or F8 or F12 or Esc or
whatever to try and get into the BIOS, and you miss it, then at least
you stop in grub instead of going straight into the OS.
A big part of the 'dark pattern' of the current boot process is that
there is rarely a feedback for all those keystroke events. We are
conditioned to go full Rachmaninoff on the keyboard---I usually try to
play chords and/or crescendos of Escape, F2, F8, F9 and F12.
Recent DELL BIOS/EFI firmware flashes short announcements ('Press F2 for
system configuration') and acknowledges seeing keystrokes ("Entering
boot selection menu"). Even though the response is not very real-time,
it's still a big improvement over the old "typing into the dark and
hoping something happens".
It would be a step forward if the proposed new boot process printed out
a message as soon as it saw something important happen, e.g.
"F12 key pressed; entering boot selection menu. Other keys include F8
for ... and Esc for ..."
"Previous OS boot incomplete or unsuccessful; entering boot selection menu"
"Unrecognized key pressed. Valid boot selection keys include F12 (boot
selection), F8 (...) ..."
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