On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)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 it is, which is why maybe it's better to accept across a bunch of
different keys? (This makes sense right?)
Whatever is decided, I think it should be proposed via the BootLoaderSpec project, so that
there's some hope of distributions agreeing on the keys. This is exactly the sort of
linux Ux fragmentation that I find user hostile, rather than anything about freedom (well,
except freedom to be different for no good reason and thus user hostile).
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec
Chris Murphy