On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 15:31 -0400, goinea...@aol.com wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I'm reaching my one year anniversary using fedora, so I guess it's > time to stop lurking and start writing, so here goes. > > > Back in November I added my two cents to the bugzilla report titled > "Increase grub timeout". Today I got a notification the it has been > set as WontFix. The reason by Chris Lumen in his last paragraph > states: > > > I'm closing as WONTFIX only on that basis. Don't take it as an offence > or that > we'll never change this behavior. I'm just not willing to fix it until > there's > distribution buy-in. Thanks.
The bug # he's discussing is below.. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541315 > OK, no offense taken, and, I understand that for marketing, saving a few > seconds off of boot-up time is an immense selling point, especially when all > the distros stand up next to one another and try to write their boot up times > into the snow. > Reading the forums and the mailing lists, I don't think I've come across one > post that is positive for keeping the timeout at zero, yet, there is a wall > to be hurdled called "distribution buy-in". > After close to a year using fedora, I know that the first thing I have to do > is change the timeout to a 3 and comment out hiddenmenu. But as a new user, > it took a while for me to figure out what was going on. I feel for the new > user who has a video card that is not immediately recognized and winds up > with a black screen after the boot. I have had this happen to me personally > doing an install, and, there have been some installs where hitting esc would > not stop the boot. I've had to ssh into one machine to change the timeout, > just so I could add "vesa" to the kernel line during boot. > As someone who spends his time helping Linux users on forums, it would really > help a lot to remove this obstacle. It doesn't make sense to lock a new user > out of the grub screen. Not sure I know what the results are of whom discussed this or who agreed or disagreed as to keep it same or not. But I am the one who opened the bug in the first place. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Best lil town on Earth!" -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
