= Proposed System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu
Owner(s): * Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat dot com> On systems with only a single OS installed, the grub menu does not offer any useful functionality, so we should hide it by default. == Detailed description == On systems with only a single OS installed, the grub menu's only function is to allow booting older kernels, which is only necessary as a rescue option in case of a severe kernel bug and as such not something which is directly useful for normal use. Fedora already has a lot of work done to not show too technical boot messages to end users during bootup, e.g. we pass quiet to the kernel and we've plymouth to show a bootsplash instead of a bunch of "Starting service-foo: OK" messages. The grub menu with its kernel versions is another example of showing too technical info to end-users and on non multi-boot systems it normally is not necessary, so it is better to hide it. The implementation of this consists of the following changes: 1. Currently if the menu is hidden the user needs to press ESC to show it, modify grub to also except F8 as show-menu key, there are 2 reasons for this: 1.1 F8 is (was) the key to bring up the boot/rescue menu in Windows 1.2 On some machines ESC brings up the firmware-setup menu 2. On non multi-boot systems set GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=1 and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET="true" in /etc/default/grub == Scope == * Proposal owners: 1. Add patches to grub to also make pressing F8 show the menu 2. Make sure this is all properly documented in release-notes, etc. 3. Write patches for anaconda to set GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=1 and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET="true" in /etc/default/grub on non multi-boot systems * Other developers: The anaconda developers will need to review and merge the /etc/default/grub related patches * Release engineering: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7539 ** List of deliverables: all * Policies and guidelines: The policies and guidelines do not need to be updated. * Trademark approval: Not needed for this Change. -- Jan Kuřík JBoss EAP Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list -- devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-announce-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2IOSOHGS2RA6HFDSNXBXQCFJ3UXHC2KJ/
