The main reason the three-second delay is still there is to permit access to recovery mode. Recovery mode is not just for when your system fails to boot in a way that GRUB can detect (and indeed probably wouldn't help in those cases); it also allows you to reset your root password or reconfigure X, and in Hardy there's even a nice menu for that.
Sure, you could hold down Escape at boot time and that ought to show the menu even given a zero timeout. But, frankly, I think the current situation is an *improvement* over Windows, and it's not clear to me that we should strive to emulate Windows here. Three seconds is a small price to pay for giving users a visual hint on how to get into recovery mode, even if their reactions are a little bit too slow so they have to reboot again before they can take advantage of it. My experience with Windows has been worse, in that you sometimes have to reboot several times before you manage to press the right key at the right time. I am inclined to mark this as Won't Fix, but would like to hear your response to the above. -- GRUB's three seconds delay unnecessary if only Ubuntu is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194730 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
