On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 6:24 AM Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I'm working on improving the Fedora boot experience, with the > end goal being a user pressing the on button and then going > to the graphical login manager without him seeing any > text messages / menus filled with technical jargon. > > IIRC we used to hide the grub-menu by default on single > OS installs, but we seemed to have stopped doing that, > for new Fedora 29 installs I would like us to start > hiding the menu by default on single OS installs again, > see: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu > > The goal if this email is to: > 1) Give people an advance warning about the plan to change > this so we can discuss this early on > > 2) See if anyone knows why we stopped doing this, I think > we may simply have stopped doing this to simplify to bootconfig > code in anaconda and because we did not always identify the > single OS case correctly, but I wonder if there were other > reasons? > I think part of the reason is that non-technical people might not know how to recover if a kernel update had a regression leaving their system unbootable. At least with the boot config screen there, it offers them something to try. I would be concerned if we drop this without instituting an alternative way to (perhaps automatically) revert to an older kernel if boot failed to reach some sensible systemd target.
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