Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Simo Sorce
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 23:23 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: 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

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: and you learn by FACING things I'll leave it up to you to mention this to the very next blind person you encounter. Even if I were to see a coherent list of kernels in a list by their date, it's unlikely I as a

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Brian Wheeler bdwhe...@indiana.edu wrote: 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

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2013, at 12:19 PM, john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: I personally could not care less about the defaults Fedora uses. I've been overriding them for years. I'm just glad I was able to learn these things before everything became hidden. Because, naturally, you don't explore, find, or

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/13/2013 01:32 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: 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

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 12 March 2013 18:32, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: 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

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.dewrote: On 03/13/2013 01:32 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: 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

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/13/2013 06:25 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de - (Nobody explicitly stated this, but) Displaying information geared towards power users by default is intimidating / confusing to less-knowledgeable users.

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Matthias Clasen wrote: - 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, avoiding the graphical screen

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/11/2013 12:58 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: - Turn off the graphical grub screen I don't know why - I think grub2 is just a PITA to work with compared to grub - but the intention here was that it should be turned off by default in final releases, and on in alpha/beta releases. I think we

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Ryan Lerch
On 03/11/2013 12:58 PM, 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 gdm login screen. Grub

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 12:58, Matthias Clasen (mcla...@redhat.com) 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

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Alec Leamas
On 2013-03-11 18:49, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 12:58, Matthias Clasen (mcla...@redhat.com) 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

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:55:30 +0100 Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: Fine with me, but don't forget to have a hint to this key visible e. g., Press F1 to... in some corner. Current policy that user just should know the key is not that good IMHO. After all, this is the first screen

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread John . Florian
From: seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: 03/11/2013 14:03 Subject: Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience Sent by: devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:55:30 +0100 Alec Leamas

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 02:02:11PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:55:30 +0100 Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: Fine with me, but don't forget to have a hint to this key visible e. g., Press F1 to... in some corner. Current policy that user just should know

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Ryan Lerch
On 03/11/2013 01:55 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: On 2013-03-11 18:49, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 12:58, Matthias Clasen (mcla...@redhat.com) 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

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Ryan Lerch
On 03/11/2013 02:21 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 02:02:11PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:55:30 +0100 Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: Fine with me, but don't forget to have a hint to this key visible e. g., Press F1 to... in some corner.

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 06:49:16PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: We should not only turn off the graphical screen, but the entire thing should get turned off unless the user presses some key. It's worth noting that many modern systems will not register keypresses during boot by default.

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Ryan Lerch wrote: Does the bootup screen require any keyboard other input at all other than escape to bring up the details? It must be possible to enter a disk encryption password. Björn Persson signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
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 moment? A multiboot system needs at least a message to inform the user how to get to the boot manager (the GRUB menu). A

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Ryan Lerch wrote: With regards to a label on the screen instructing the user how to show the hidden preboot menu (GRUB), It is clutter that is not needed. It makes boot up longer, as that screen will need to appear on the screen long enough for the user to read, at which point why not just

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 03/11/2013 02:41 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Yes, why not display the Grub menu? Because it's the year 2013. Not 1999. Whether any text is displayed or not, there still needs to be a long enough pause that the user has time to press a key. Not displaying any text at all would make it harder

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread John . Florian
From: Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se Ryan Lerch wrote: With regards to a label on the screen instructing the user how to show the hidden preboot menu (GRUB), It is clutter that is not needed. It makes boot up longer, as that screen will need to appear on the screen long

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:49:10 -0500 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: On 03/11/2013 02:41 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Yes, why not display the Grub menu? Because it's the year 2013. Not 1999. There's no need for this kind of sarcastic/snarky response. I don't think Bjorn was asking

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: Ryan Lerch wrote: With regards to a label on the screen instructing the user how to show the hidden preboot menu (GRUB), It is clutter that is not needed. It makes boot up longer, as that screen will need to

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Bill Nottingham
Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) said: Matthias Clasen wrote: - 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:

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 19:21, Tomasz Torcz (to...@pipebreaker.pl) wrote: Fine with me, but don't forget to have a hint to this key visible e. g., Press F1 to... in some corner. Current policy that user just should know the key is not that good IMHO. After all, this is the first screen a

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 18:51, Matthew Garrett (mj...@srcf.ucam.org) wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 06:49:16PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: We should not only turn off the graphical screen, but the entire thing should get turned off unless the user presses some key. It's worth noting that

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) said: Matthias Clasen wrote: - 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:

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
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 moment? A multiboot system needs at least a

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread DJ Delorie
We nowadays live in times where BIOS POST takes 500ms, HA! I wish mine was that fast. With all the different BIOS chips doing thier own thing for all the add-on cards and peripherals I have, it takes about 45 seconds just to get to GRUB at all. -- devel mailing list

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 20:41, Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: Ryan Lerch wrote: With regards to a label on the screen instructing the user how to show the hidden preboot menu (GRUB), It is clutter that is not needed. It makes boot up longer, as that screen will need to appear on the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:07:32 +0100 Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: I don't think we should generate any message. Nothing at all. My BIOS doesn't print a single line, and neither does the kernel if quiet is used (which is the default). I really don't see why Plymouth or the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Peter Robinson wrote: It use to only be displayed if there was more than one OS configured or if the CTRL was held down. Having to press a particular key means you have to get it at the second or two where grub isn't displayed. The Ctrl option is quite nice as you can do it before the BIOS

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread drago01
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 03/11/2013 12:58 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: - Turn off the graphical grub screen I don't know why - I think grub2 is just a PITA to work with compared to grub - but the intention here was that it should be turned

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 19:21, Tomasz Torcz (to...@pipebreaker.pl) wrote: Fine with me, but don't forget to have a hint to this key visible e. g., Press F1 to... in some corner. Current policy that user just

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Lennart Poettering wrote: If some text like Press Esc now to choose which operating system to boot. would be displayed, then the pause would need to be long enough for the user to read and understand the instruction and then reach for the right key – and the terser the text is made the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread drago01
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: Lennart Poettering wrote: If some text like Press Esc now to choose which operating system to boot. would be displayed, then the pause would need to be long enough for the user to read and understand the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 11 mars 2013 21:16, Lennart Poettering a écrit : 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

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Chris Murphy wrote: A multiboot system needs at least a message to inform the user how to get to the boot manager (the GRUB menu). A Fedora only system probably should entirely suppress the menu or notice how to get to it. What if I need to revert to the previous kernel, or add some kernel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 11 mars 2013 20:57, Bill Nottingham a écrit : Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) said: Matthias Clasen wrote: - 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:

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 20:22, Peter Robinson (pbrobin...@gmail.com) wrote: Entering the boot loader is something that is a debugging feature, a tool for professionals. It shouldn't be too hard to expect from them to remember something as simple as maybe press shift or Space or Esc to get the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 21:40, Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: Lennart Poettering wrote: If some text like Press Esc now to choose which operating system to boot. would be displayed, then the pause would need to be long enough for the user to read and understand the instruction and

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 16:20, seth vidal (skvi...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:07:32 +0100 Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: I don't think we should generate any message. Nothing at all. My BIOS doesn't print a single line, and neither does the kernel if

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 21:20, Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: It use to only be displayed if there was more than one OS configured or if the CTRL was held down. Having to press a particular key means you have to get it at the second or two where grub isn't

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Ryan Lerch
On 03/11/2013 04:56 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 21:40, Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: Lennart Poettering wrote: If some text like Press Esc now to choose which operating system to boot. would be displayed, then the pause would need to be long enough for the user

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Does any other computing device you own prompt you for a boot menu? Your mobile phone? That's one of the reasons I've never gotten around to trying another distribution or playing with a more feature-rich kernel on my N900: I have to first find out whether and how

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 21:45, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mail...@laposte.net) wrote: Le Lun 11 mars 2013 21:16, Lennart Poettering a écrit : 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

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Seth, On 03/11/2013 04:20 PM, seth vidal wrote: I'm mostly concerned with making new professionals. We have to make the secret information discoverable if we want people to poke and prod around. If the bioses and systems years ago had been opaque we wouldn't have gotten this far. How

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 17:05, Máirín Duffy (du...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: Hi Seth, On 03/11/2013 04:20 PM, seth vidal wrote: I'm mostly concerned with making new professionals. We have to make the secret information discoverable if we want people to poke and prod around. If the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:00:54 +0100 Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: I'm mostly concerned with making new professionals. Well, where do you get them from? Here's a hint: the Unix market is now all ours, so you can only get them from Windows. And on Windows 8 they don't have

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: Somebody who is capable of installing multiple operating systems on one machine should easily be savvy enough to remember that pressing shift/esc/space/f2/whatever gets him the boot menu. When I said at least I meant

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:05:31 -0400 Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Hi Seth, On 03/11/2013 04:20 PM, seth vidal wrote: I'm mostly concerned with making new professionals. We have to make the secret information discoverable if we want people to poke and prod around. If

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 20:22, Peter Robinson (pbrobin...@gmail.com) wrote: Entering the boot loader is something that is a debugging feature, a tool for professionals. It shouldn't be too hard to expect from them to

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:09:46PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: We are working on this in the systemd context. We will provide a tiny mechanism, similar to localed/timedated/hostnamed that can be used by desktop UIs to choose boot into firmware, and boot into other OS features, which can

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
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 CREATING and LEARNING. So I don't want to scare any of them off. My OLPC does not present any boot menu or prompt. -- devel mailing list

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
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 CREATING and LEARNING. So I don't want to scare any of them off. My OLPC

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread 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 point in the boot

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 22:14, Till Maas (opensou...@till.name) wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:09:46PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: We are working on this in the systemd context. We will provide a tiny mechanism, similar to localed/timedated/hostnamed that can be used by desktop UIs to

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:20 PM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:07:32 +0100 Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: Entering the boot loader is something that is a debugging feature, a tool for professionals. I'm mostly concerned with making new

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/11/2013 09:05 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi Seth, On 03/11/2013 04:20 PM, seth vidal wrote: I'm mostly concerned with making new professionals. We have to make the secret information discoverable if we want people to poke and prod around. If the bioses and systems years ago had been

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/11/2013 09:08 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 17:05, Máirín Duffy (du...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: Hi Seth, On 03/11/2013 04:20 PM, seth vidal wrote: I'm mostly concerned with making new professionals. We have to make the secret information discoverable if we want

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/11/2013 05:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Right, because had booting simply worked, instead of a** r8H#@Ig me every 10 minutes, I'd never have become curious about it. Do you remember the days when bootup was so slow that you would sit there for 3-5 minutes watching the ram count up? The

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 21:20, Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: It use to only be displayed if there was more than one OS configured or if the CTRL was held down. Having to press a particular key means you have to get it at the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:18 PM, 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 CREATING and LEARNING. So I don't want to scare any of them off. My OLPC does not

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:24:28 -0600 Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: If the bioses and systems years ago had been opaque we wouldn't have gotten this far. Please elaborate on this, and define this far. Apple has had fairly opaque booting for ~28 years, so I'm curious how

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 22:30, Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 21:20, Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: It use to only be displayed if there was more than one OS configured or if the CTRL was held down.

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Jóhann, These are great links, thanks!! So to summarize: On 03/11/2013 05:11 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: 1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/22/designing-for-pcs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before.aspx The last case these guys go over is the one we care about. They

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Ryan Lerch
On 03/11/2013 05:30 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 21:20, Björn Persson (bjorn@rombobjörn.se) wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: It use to only be displayed if there was more than one OS configured or if the CTRL was held down. Having to press a particular key

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 03/11/2013 04:30 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: The OLPC doesn't use grub in any shape for form. It used Open Firmware to boot straight to the kernel. Thanks, but I'm aware of the software used. My comment was to give Seth an example about what some distros (one that you help design) show users

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:34:28 -0400 Ryan Lerch rle...@redhat.com wrote: I think the suggestion in this thread is to simply keep a key *pressed down* that way there are no issues with the user having to time a keypress. Having a key pressed down helps, also, with Accessibility for folks with

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:13 PM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I want to encourage kids, teenagers, etc to explore the OS. We need them to be involved in CREATING and LEARNING. So I don't want to scare any of them off. Search this thread for my battery acid comment. Learning about

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 17:24, Máirín Duffy (du...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: Having multiple triggers for this sounds OK, but making all keys triggers for this sounds suboptimal, since you might buttdial the boot menu then, which sounds suboptimal. Lennart, what you're suggesting is if the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Lennart Poettering wrote: (And on EFI systems that do not initialize USB anymore during POST, you have to go through the OS to get into the boot loader anyway...) That's going to be real fun when the OS fails to boot, and I can't fix the boot because I can't get into the boot loader because the

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
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 ~m -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 03/11/2013 05:44 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 17:24, Máirín Duffy (du...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: Having multiple triggers for this sounds OK, but making all keys triggers for this sounds suboptimal, since you might buttdial the boot menu then, which sounds suboptimal.

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: 2. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1533 They appear to have an entire menagerie of keys you can press during startup to access various modes and controls. Seems very un-Apple like though to have so many different

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Ryan Lerch wrote: I think the suggestion in this thread is to simply keep a key *pressed down* that way there are no issues with the user having to time a keypress. And I'm asking: How am I supposed to *discover* that I'm supposed to be holding a key down and not pounding on it? Could there

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 03/11/2013 05:44 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: That random key could be shift, or space or enter, or esc, or F8, or Shift+F8, or whatever. Okay, right. The problem with that is, though, that users won't know what

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: Chris Murphy wrote: A multiboot system needs at least a message to inform the user how to get to the boot manager (the GRUB menu). A Fedora only system probably should entirely suppress the menu or notice how to

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/11/2013 09:33 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi Jóhann, These are great links, thanks!! So to summarize: On 03/11/2013 05:11 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: 1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/22/designing-for-pcs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before.aspx The last case these guys go

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: Basically do what Lennart has been suggesting along with borrowing from OS X to play an sound ( startup tone ) when you should press a ( startup ) key but have very limited key combo, if anything other then a

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 17:53, Máirín Duffy (du...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: On 03/11/2013 05:44 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 17:24, Máirín Duffy (du...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: Having multiple triggers for this sounds OK, but making all keys triggers for this sounds

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:31 PM, seth vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:24:28 -0600 Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: If the bioses and systems years ago had been opaque we wouldn't have gotten this far. Please elaborate on this, and define this far.

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On 11/03/13 01:20 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Yikes. On a modern system the BIOS POST finishes within 500ms, and While we're trading anecdata, mine takes at least 10 seconds, and often appears to run twice for absolutely no good reason. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC:

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 March 2013 20:43, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: Lennart Poettering wrote: If some text like Press Esc now to choose which operating system to boot. would be displayed, then the pause would need to be

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 11.03.13 15:47, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: On 11/03/13 01:20 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Yikes. On a modern system the BIOS POST finishes within 500ms, and While we're trading anecdata, mine takes at least 10 seconds, and often appears to run twice for

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:58:55PM +0100, Bj??rn Persson wrote: Ryan Lerch wrote: I think the suggestion in this thread is to simply keep a key *pressed down* that way there are no issues with the user having to time a keypress. And I'm asking: How am I supposed to *discover* that I'm

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 11, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 March 2013 20:43, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: If you really want to menu hold down any key. Kernel update breaks system. User ignorant of hold-down key approach is stuck. Menu at least advertises possibility of

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Björn Persson
Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 17:53, Máirín Duffy (du...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: Okay, right. The problem with that is, though, that users won't know what it is, which is why maybe it's better to accept across a bunch of different keys? (This makes sense right?) Yes,

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Christopher Meng
A suggestion: Should we let users to specify the grub2 sequence or key pressing after the installation before reboot? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Steve Clark
On 03/11/2013 05:04 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 11.03.13 21:45, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mail...@laposte.net) wrote: Le Lun 11 mars 2013 21:16, Lennart Poettering a écrit : On Mon, 11.03.13 13:08, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Björn

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