Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 03:14:01PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: I haven't seen systems that boot in less than 6 seconds (and by boot I mean power-on to login prompt). Maybe they exist, but that is not my experience with common

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:30:13PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: After a few iterations I'd also be cursing the idiots who designed such an unfriendly user interface just because they didn't want any text on the screen. After a few iterations you should just enable bootloader menu with

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread drago01
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:22 PM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:18:33 -0500 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: On 03/11/2013 04:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: I want to encourage kids, teenagers, etc to explore the OS. We need them to be involved in

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 09:55, schrieb drago01: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:22 PM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:18:33 -0500 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: On 03/11/2013

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/11/2013 09:16 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 13:08, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: Or nothing at all displayed unless the user happens to know to press some key at the right

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, On the question of how kernel versions should be accessed, I am very much in favour of the position that Chris Murphy expressed earlier: choosing a kernel version is opaque to most users and requires fairly advanced technical knowledge to understand. Invitations to access boot options

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: I would love to see F19 make a good first impression. The first time you see something Fedora-related on the screen currently is the graphical grub screen, followed by the filling-in-Fedora of Plymouth, followed by the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Alec Leamas
On 2013-03-12 12:45, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: I would love to see F19 make a good first impression. The first time you see something Fedora-related on the screen currently is the graphical grub screen, followed by the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Does any other computing device you own prompt you for a boot menu? Your mobile phone? Your TV (which likely has embedded Linux)? Your car? Windows? OS X? Why is that? Could it be because a boot menu is not necessary

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Jiří Eischmann
Allan Day píše v Út 12. 03. 2013 v 11:15 +: Hi all, On the question of how kernel versions should be accessed, I am very much in favour of the position that Chris Murphy expressed earlier: choosing a kernel version is opaque to most users and requires fairly advanced technical knowledge

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 13:08, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: Or nothing at all displayed unless the user happens to know to

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 03/12/2013 01:02 PM, Jiří Eischmann wrote: Allan Day píše v Út 12. 03. 2013 v 11:15 +: Hi all, On the question of how kernel versions should be accessed, I am very much in favour of the position that Chris Murphy expressed earlier: choosing a kernel version is opaque to most users

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Fabian Deutsch
Von: Máirín Duffy On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: Is one line of text really that significant of a problem to present? I'm pretty sure it is because of where we are in the process at that point. For example, translations - can we render Indic or CJK glyphs to the screen at this

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 12 mars 2013 09:55, drago01 a écrit : On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:22 PM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:18:33 -0500 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: On 03/11/2013 04:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: I want to encourage kids, teenagers, etc to

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:17, Hans de Goede a écrit : Hi, On 03/12/2013 01:02 PM, Jiří Eischmann wrote: Allan Day píše v Út 12. 03. 2013 v 11:15 +: Hi all, On the question of how kernel versions should be accessed, I am very much in favour of the position that Chris Murphy expressed

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:30, Fabian Deutsch a écrit : Von: Máirín Duffy On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: Is one line of text really that significant of a problem to present? I'm pretty sure it is because of where we are in the process at that point. For example, translations - can

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:52:30 +0100 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:30, Fabian Deutsch a écrit : What about pulling the message stuff into plymouth and using dracut to trigger a reboot which shows the grub menu? Something along the lines: Press

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Steve Clark
On 03/12/2013 07:04 AM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 09:55, schrieb drago01: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:22 PM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:18:33 -0500 Michael Cronenworth

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread drago01
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 03/12/2013 07:04 AM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 09:55, schrieb drago01: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:22 PM, seth vidal

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Fabian Deutsch
Von: Nicolas Mailhot Gesendet: 12.03.13 13:52 Uhr Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:30, Fabian Deutsch a écrit : Von: Máirín Duffy On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: Is one line of text really that significant of a problem to present? I'm pretty sure it is because of where we are in the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 12 mars 2013 14:16, drago01 a écrit : On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: I'd say booting is a more common task then messing with bootloader options so lets optimize for the former rather then the later. How many times do you boot your system each

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 12.03.13 09:13, Steve Clark (scl...@netwolves.com) wrote: How many times do you boot your system each day? 10? Okay thats a whole 20 additional seconds. This is way up on my list of most non-sensical arguments about building OSes, right next to Linux is about choice. This bullshit

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Steve Clark
On 03/12/2013 09:33 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 12.03.13 09:13, Steve Clark (scl...@netwolves.com) wrote: How many times do you boot your system each day? 10? Okay thats a whole 20 additional seconds. This is way up on my list of most non-sensical arguments about building OSes,

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.03.2013 18:49, schrieb Lennart Poettering: - Turn off the graphical grub screen Even if we are not able to suppress the boot menu entirely, or having a clean boot menu like this: https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-lock-login-boot/bootmenu.png,

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.03.2013 09:55, schrieb drago01: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:22 PM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:18:33 -0500 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: On 03/11/2013 04:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: I want to encourage kids, teenagers, etc to explore

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.03.2013 12:04, schrieb drago01: Sorry but that's nonsense. Pretty much all other operating systems do not display the boot loader by default and you see this as a reason for showing it? What kind of weird logic is that? Or do you really think we can have we do show a screen that you

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience - no plymouth!

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.03.2013 13:52, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:30, Fabian Deutsch a écrit : Von: Máirín Duffy On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: Is one line of text really that significant of a problem to present? I'm pretty sure it is because of where we are in the process

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:01:54AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: And the main lesson her is don't clutter the user interface with useless graphical eye candy. It makes the boot process require unnecessary system resources. The new Fedora installation setup is currently a *nightmare*. It

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:56:57AM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: On 03/12/2013 09:33 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 12.03.13 09:13, Steve Clark (scl...@netwolves.com) wrote: You know: *you* might not need fast boot. *Your* systems you might not reboot only every other week. *Your* server

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience - no plymouth!

2013-03-12 Thread Dan Mashal
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 13:52, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:30, Fabian Deutsch a écrit : Von: Máirín Duffy On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: Is one line of text really that significant of a

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Brian Wheeler
Repeating that fast boot times matter is just as bogus as saying they don't. The 2 or 3 seconds that's being talked about here has no meaningful impact on anything other than embedded users and they're probably not using grub anyway. Fedora 18 screwed my laptop pretty thoroughly since the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience - no plymouth!

2013-03-12 Thread Philip Rhoades
On 2013-03-13 00:06, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.03.2013 13:52, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:30, Fabian Deutsch a écrit : Von: Máirín Duffy On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: Is one line of text really that significant of a problem to present? I'm pretty sure it is

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Jan Dvořák
Hi, first of all, I respect your work very much and am actually very grateful for avahi, pulseaudio and systemd as I was for ifplugd back in the old days when Gentoo was cool. Fast boot times matter to dual-boot users, they matter to everybdoy who doesn't run his system 24/7, That is indeed

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience - no plymouth!

2013-03-12 Thread Dan Mashal
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 15:37, schrieb Dan Mashal: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 13:52, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:30, Fabian Deutsch a

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience - no plymouth!

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.03.2013 15:37, schrieb Dan Mashal: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 13:52, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:30, Fabian Deutsch a écrit : Von: Máirín Duffy On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wrote: Is one line

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/12/2013 08:30 AM, Fabian Deutsch wrote: What about pulling the message stuff into plymouth and using dracut to trigger a reboot which shows the grub menu? Something along the lines: Press ESC to see deatils or 'b' to enter the bootloader This is an interesting idea, but I don't think

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, Keep in mind that the not show the menu by default plan depends on the bootspec changes, and that will include a gui tool which will allow users to select things like show the menu (and then it won't have a timeout so be easier to get to), or even to directly select the kernel to boot

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:58:05PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: Hi, I would love to see F19 make a good first impression. The first time you see something Fedora-related on the screen currently is the graphical grub screen, followed by the filling-in-Fedora of Plymouth, followed by the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Fabian Deutsch
Von: Máirín Duffy On 03/12/2013 08:30 AM, Fabian Deutsch wrote: What about pulling the message stuff into plymouth and using dracut to trigger a reboot which shows the grub menu? Something along the lines: Press ESC to see deatils or 'b' to enter the bootloader This is an interesting

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 01:43:28PM -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote: IIRC, in f17, the GRUB screen was not visible. (you could still press f11 to bring it up if you needed it to). Does anyone know why this behaviour changed? I think you're thinking of F15. It was a patch we were carrying to grub1,

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:10:27 -0400 Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: Honestly, I'd like to do this anyway - the grub2 gfxterm code seems to cause nothing but bugs in later graphics setup. That said, I'd rather go back to not having it at all, but with a different plan than last time.

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 05:51:06PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: On 03/11/2013 05:01 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: By hooking this up to keys people would natrually try, such as shift, space, enter, escape, or whatever windows does for their boot menu stuff. FWIW Windows uses F8 Windows 8 on

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 12, 2013 9:12 AM, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On UEFI systems, which is most new desktops: 1) we don't need any grub UI whatsoever 2) we don't need the 5 second timeout 3) we don't need to indicate to the firmware that we need USB probed unless it's the device we're booting

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 12 mars 2013 16:09, Gerd Hoffmann a écrit : Hi, Keep in mind that the not show the menu by default plan depends on the bootspec changes, and that will include a gui tool which will allow users to select things like show the menu (and then it won't have a timeout so be easier to get

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 12 mars 2013 16:10, Peter Jones a écrit : On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:58:05PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: The idea would be to have a positive indication from systemd that we've gotten to some pre-defined point on the previous boot (say, starting your login manager), and not to show

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Jiří Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: New kernels bring a lot of regressions and we don't have enough test coverage to avoid them. The general solution to those problems is to go back to the last working kernel version. But by making it less obvious we make

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
If this happens right now, what do users do? They probably take some other computer and Google and find that you have to choose the previous kernel, or edit the kernel cmdline. In the new world, they Google and find that you have to hold Control and choose the previous kernel, or edit the kernel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.03.2013 17:32, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 12, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Jiří Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: New kernels bring a lot of regressions and we don't have enough test coverage to avoid them. The general solution to those problems is to go back to the last working kernel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2013, at 8:45 AM, john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: From: Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com Kernel update breaks system. User ignorant of hold-down key approach is stuck. Menu at least advertises possibility of alternative. This logic doesn't work. The user ignorant of

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 12 March 2013 09:00, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 03/12/2013 08:30 AM, Fabian Deutsch wrote: What about pulling the message stuff into plymouth and using dracut to trigger a reboot which shows the grub menu? Something along the lines: Press ESC to see deatils or 'b' to

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:28:28AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:10:27 -0400 Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: Honestly, I'd like to do this anyway - the grub2 gfxterm code seems to cause nothing but bugs in later graphics setup. That said, I'd rather go back to

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:51:14AM -0600, Pete Travis wrote: For the use cases where it doesn't work, what about dropping a bootloader config spoke into anaconda, or revealing the appropriate features in kickstart options? Perhaps probing to test for dual boot to determine if a brief timeout

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 17:19 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Did anyone check the X guys were ok with a setup where they had no longer any room for error? They heavily depend on users being able to boot on the previous kernel when there is a driver problem. Yeah, I'm good. - ajax -- devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:19:52PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mar 12 mars 2013 16:10, Peter Jones a écrit : On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:58:05PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: The idea would be to have a positive indication from systemd that we've gotten to some pre-defined point on

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 17:32, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 12, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Jiří Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: New kernels bring a lot of regressions and we don't have enough test coverage to avoid them. The

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Ray Strode
Hi, This is an interesting idea, but I don't think plymouth makes it any easier to display CJK Indic glyphs. (Please someone more technical tell me if I'm wrong here, I vaguely remember this being an issue when we wanted to add a messagse to fedup) I hoped that it would be easier to

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread John . Florian
From: Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com On Mar 12, 2013, at 8:45 AM, john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: From: Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com Kernel update breaks system. User ignorant of hold-down key approach is stuck. Menu at least advertises possibility of alternative.

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: I *do* appreciate the attempts to get a clean, graphically consistent boot experience. And to be frank, I wonder if not WIn 8 (and perhaps Mac) has got it right. It's just that a Fedora box isn't a Win8 or a Mac, and

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Brian Wheeler
On 03/12/2013 02:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 17:32, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 12, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Jiří Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: New kernels bring a lot of regressions and we don't have

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 07:17:26PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.03.2013 18:51, schrieb Peter Jones: So I'd really rather have it so that /under normal circumstances/, if the user wants the non-default kernel or parameters, they tell us so before rebooting /under normal

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com said: I *do* appreciate the attempts to get a clean, graphically consistent boot experience. And to be frank, I wonder if not WIn 8 (and perhaps Mac) has got it right. It's just that a Fedora box isn't a Win8 or a Mac, and the boot UI

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Brian Wheeler
Fedora isn't windows. Its not OSX. It should never be those things and I'm grateful for it. The boot menu doesn't hurt anything. It has benefits. What are the benefits of removing the boot menu? * Saving upwards of 5 seconds per day! My god, think of the productivity boost! * Its

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:31:36PM -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote: Fedora isn't windows. Its not OSX. It should never be those things and I'm grateful for it. We shouldn't ignore developments done in other camps. NIH is bad. What are the benefits of removing the boot menu? * Saving upwards

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Ryan Lerch
On 03/12/2013 02:24 PM, Brian Wheeler wrote: On 03/12/2013 02:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 17:32, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 12, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Jiří Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: New

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Fabian Deutsch
Von: Ray Strode This is an interesting idea, but I don't think plymouth makes it any easier to display CJK Indic glyphs. (Please someone more technical tell me if I'm wrong here, I vaguely remember this being an issue when we wanted to add a messagse to fedup) I hoped that it would

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.03.2013 18:51, schrieb Peter Jones: So I'd really rather have it so that /under normal circumstances/, if the user wants the non-default kernel or parameters, they tell us so before rebooting /under normal circumstances/ you do not often need this and if booting fails comepletly after

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.03.2013 19:03, schrieb Chris Murphy: i learned it many years ago by facing the boot-menu Well you wouldn't learn it today because of how grub2-mkconfig and grubby interact. ah and because things got worser you would make it more worse Your first kernel update depends on grubby

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.03.2013 19:31, schrieb Peter Jones: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 07:17:26PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.03.2013 18:51, schrieb Peter Jones: So I'd really rather have it so that /under normal circumstances/, if the user wants the non-default kernel or parameters, they tell us so

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.03.2013 19:35, schrieb Tomasz Torcz: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:31:36PM -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote: Fedora isn't windows. Its not OSX. It should never be those things and I'm grateful for it. We shouldn't ignore developments done in other camps. NIH is bad nobody says ignore but

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:38:39 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 19:35, schrieb Tomasz Torcz: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:31:36PM -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote: Fedora isn't windows. Its not OSX. It should never be those things and I'm grateful for it. We

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 07:36:56PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: hpw do you imagine the system to smell booting the new one has failed? if it fails it will hopefully not remount the rootfs RW (if it would be possible at this time) and write something to disk so that the next reboot knows hmm

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:51:10 -0400 Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: ...snip... So, the problems with that when we implemented it on grub1 were numerous, but basically they're all of one variety: 1) we have to clear the buffer at some point because BIOSes often leave junk in them 2)

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Steve Clark
On 03/12/2013 02:23 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.03.2013 19:03, schrieb Chris Murphy: i learned it many years ago by facing the boot-menu Well you wouldn't learn it today because of how grub2-mkconfig and grubby interact. ah and because things got worser you would make it more worse

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 03:21:54PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: On 03/12/2013 02:23 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: but the better option for us all would be if people with this attitude switch to these operating systems instead damage slowly what we know as UNIX-LIKE system I *completely* *detest*

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Brian Wheeler
On 03/12/2013 02:35 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:31:36PM -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote: Fedora isn't windows. Its not OSX. It should never be those things and I'm grateful for it. We shouldn't ignore developments done in other camps. NIH is bad. Of course it is.

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
And how does the proposal here remove functionality or lower maintainability? On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Brian Wheeler bdwhe...@indiana.edu wrote: On 03/12/2013 02:35 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:31:36PM -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote: Fedora isn't windows. Its not

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
I tried breaking this thread down into its components and summarizing the discussion and points brought up thus far. I hope it helps: http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2013/03/12/improving-the-fedora-boot-experience/ ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:38:32PM -0400, Ryan Lerch wrote: I know it is a simplification, but to me, the two sides of this argument are: * remove the hood of the car, and keep it off in case something goes wrong, or to entice new drivers to look in there and guess what is going on. * keep

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
Sure, and I'm sure the rental company wouldn't want you to pop the hood. ... wait, what were we saying about bootloaders again? On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: On 03/12/2013 05:01 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: That, plus whether the lever to open the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
On 12/03/13 11:31 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Here's the other large difference between the typical Linux install and Windows/Mac OS: Linux has choices that can be made at boot. When the other OSes update their equivalent to the kernel, they don't leave multiple kernels installed that can be chosen

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/12/2013 05:15 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: Sure, and I'm sure the rental company wouldn't want you to pop the hood. Not having a rental car break down on the side of the highway in an unfamiliar city is certainly a luxury. ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Simo Sorce
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 09:56 -0400, Steve Clark wrote: On 03/12/2013 09:33 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 12.03.13 09:13, Steve Clark (scl...@netwolves.com) wrote: How many times do you boot your system each day? 10? Okay thats a whole 20 additional seconds. This is way up on

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Simo Sorce
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 22:37 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.03.2013 22:34, schrieb Simo Sorce: I reboot VMs a lot for development, 2 seconds do make a difference Bruhahaha 100 reboots = 200 seconds = 3.3 Minutes more for 100 reboots well, i boot probably more VMs you have ever seen

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.03.2013 22:34, schrieb Simo Sorce: I reboot VMs a lot for development, 2 seconds do make a difference Bruhahaha 100 reboots = 200 seconds = 3.3 Minutes more for 100 reboots well, i boot probably more VMs you have ever seen BUT if two seconds are really counting you are doing something

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.03.2013 23:13, schrieb Simo Sorce: On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 22:37 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.03.2013 22:34, schrieb Simo Sorce: I reboot VMs a lot for development, 2 seconds do make a difference Bruhahaha 100 reboots = 200 seconds = 3.3 Minutes more for 100 reboots well, i

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience - no plymouth!

2013-03-12 Thread Richard Vickery
+1 On Mar 12, 2013 7:37 AM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 12.03.2013 13:52, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:30, Fabian Deutsch a écrit : Von: Máirín Duffy On 03/11/2013 05:13

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-03-12, 11:45 GMT, Miloslav Trmač wrote: users _have to_ interact with is solid? Like having a prompt for the hard disk passphrase that tells the user in text what is necessary, and actually looks like a text input field? (Have you seen how confused a newbie is when turning on a Linux

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:34:43PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: I reboot VMs a lot for development, 2 seconds do make a difference, it's a little thing but 99% of the time I do not care about what is shown, just that the machine is back up as fast as possible. This is also pretty important for

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 12 mars 2013 19:04, Peter Jones a écrit : Obviously we need to do a good job of making sure we tolerate failures, and there are multiple ways to do this - if you reboot N times within M seconds or somesuch might be a worthwhile heuristic. By definition an heuristic is unreliable. The

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 13:17 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: Keep in mind that the not show the menu by default plan depends on the bootspec changes, and that will include a gui tool which will allow users to select things like show the menu (and then it won't have a timeout so be easier to get

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 12 mars 2013 21:53, Máirín Duffy a écrit : I tried breaking this thread down into its components and summarizing the discussion and points brought up thus far. I hope it helps: http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2013/03/12/improving-the-fedora-boot-experience/ Máirín, The proposal discussed

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 03/12/2013 06:10 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: The proposal discussed here is not to keep the hood on the car. The proposal is to remove any indication there is a hood, and show the user a seamless surface with no hint it can be opened (or how). Reminds me of the time I had to pay like $90 for

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 12 March 2013 17:10, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le Mar 12 mars 2013 21:53, Máirín Duffy a écrit : I tried breaking this thread down into its components and summarizing the discussion and points brought up thus far. I hope it helps:

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Gianluca Sforna
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: The proposal discussed here is not to keep the hood on the car. The proposal is to remove any indication there is a hood, and show the user a seamless surface with no hint it can be opened (or how). However,

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/12/2013 02:36 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: sorry, i have no other words for this discussion as braindead Check please! Hall monitors? ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/12/2013 07:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I am saying this because I agree. To me the proposal (not the original but some point in the the 500 ms boot time ideal ) seemed very much a welded shut view. And as someone who has to worked on welded shut computers for asthetic reasons.. it

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/12/2013 08:02 PM, Gianluca Sforna wrote: However, pretty much every operating system out there has a special key or combo to activate a boot menu, which is otherwise not accessible. I don't think Linux users are less capable to find out what they need to press at boot, when things need

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Ray Strode
Hi, On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: And which doesn’t nonsensically short timeout, so that I manage to get booted sometimes only on third or fourth attempt (yes, I am easily distracted to do something else while the system boots up; you have a problem with

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Ryan Rix
My machine suspends to disk when I close the lid while it is unplugged. So ... Quite often. I would love to see the GRUB menu disabled by default, but I am also content with doing it myself post-install. On Mon 11 March 2013 21:51:01 Steve Clark wrote: On 03/11/2013 05:04 PM, Lennart Poettering

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-03-12 14:33 (GMT+0100) Lennart Poettering composed: Fast boot times ... increase reliability, and How? applicability. What? -- The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User

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