Von: Máirín Duffy
On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> Is one line of text really that significant of a problem to present?
I'm pretty sure it is because of where we are in the process at that
point. For example, translations - can we render Indic or CJK glyphs to
the screen at this point in the boot process? I'm not quite sure that's
possible? Another thing with translations is they take up additional
disk space and I think (don't quote me on this, maybe Peter or one of
the other grub experts could speak up) grub2 is a bit chubby compared to
grub, but its space usage is a concern so to not have to have all the
translation files for the languages we support would definitely be good.
(grub2's girth is one of the reasons - on upstream's recommendation -
that we don't allow installing the bootloader to a partition now.)
What about pulling the message stuff into plymouth and using dracut to
trigger a reboot which shows the grub menu? Something along the lines:
"Press ESC to see deatils or 'b' to enter the bootloader"
This way we would avoid showing the grub menu, but still give the users to
trigger a reboot into the grub menu .
The main reason against such an approach is - obvioulsy - the need for a
reboot.
And on the other side I dunno if dracut is capable to modify grub2's config
(to display the menu upon the next boot)
- fabian