> > Because, if we fail to boot, you won't have an
opportunity to even get to the
> > boot menu on many systems. Would be easier if we could design the hardware
> > to go with the boot menu ;)
> >
>
> There could be a delay of say 3-5 seconds, with grub hidden, so if we
> fail to boot people have a change to react.
This is actually exactly what we did a long time ago in the case of
single-boot installs. I don't remember precisely what changed.
I seem to remember it was something to do with the move to grub2