On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:05:30PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
I am in love with having a system that boots. And experience shows
that
I'm in the grub prompt quite often. Now admittedly, I'm doing kernel
builds and the like, but even when I'm not, I'll often need to stick a
parameter on a kernel boot line or choose a kernel to run. And then
there's the bad upgrade[0] case in which grub proves useful too.
Nobody has suggested "Grub should not be available". Having a timeout of
0 doesn't prevent any of the things you want to do. If you're unable to
get to grub at all without setting a timeout then that's something that
needs fixing, but we're better off exploring *why* your machine is
behaving differently rather than bandaiding over it with a timeout and
prompt.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org