On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 04:50:26PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > On most Bay Trail, Cherry Trail and Apollo Lake devices the ESC key is > the hotkey to enter the BIOS/EFI setup screen. > > This makes it hard for the user to show the grub-menu when it is hidden > and a short timeout is used, because pressing ESC too early leads to the > user entering the BIOS/EFI setup screen. > > F8 is (almost?) always free (on X86/PC platforms) as Windows uses this for > its boot menu, so also accept F8 as interrupt/show-menu key. As an added > advantage this is also more discoverable / easier for users coming from > Windows.
I have seen F8 and F12 used as boot menu keys on many systems. I would not consider it usually free. Maybe it has become less common after windows started using it, but it isn't that unusual. ASUS seems to be a major user of F8 for boot menu. Not exactly an uncommon system board. Some Lenovo desktops also use F8 for the boot menu. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel