On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
On 01-06-18 20:38, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
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>> On Jun 1, 2018, at 1:04 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> First of all I want to thank everyone for their input.
>>
>> I also want to make clear that the hide the menu +
>> not listening for a keypress at all (aka fastboot) is a
>> Fedora 30 thing, quoting myself:
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>> "For F29, single OS Fedora Workstation install we get:
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>> 1) grub menu hidden by default with a 1 second timeout to press ESC
>> or F8 to show it
>
>
> As discussed, this isn’t so great. Can we at least let users hold down
> a key rather than having to press it at the correct magic time?
Because detecting modifiers with UEFI is iffy and with
serial consoles is outright impossible.
I think that, if we have a serial console, we should have a minimum
250ms delay or so such that, if I hold down a key, I get a grub menu.
(Does UEFI buffer keystrokes? It might be sufficient to just check
*once* for buffered keystrokes.) On systems where I have a serial
console, I want to be able to rescue the system, full stop.
On UEFI, we should at least try, I think. And checking once for
buffered keystrokes would be really nice too.