Hi
I'm reaching my one year anniversary using fedora, so I guess it's time to stop
lurking and start writing, so here goes.
Back in November I added my two cents to the bugzilla report titled "Increase grub
timeout". Today I got a notification the it has been set as WontFix. The reason by
Chris Lumen in his last paragraph states:
I'm closing as WONTFIX only on that basis. Don't take it as an offence or that
we'll never change this behavior. I'm just not willing to fix it until
there's
distribution buy-in. Thanks.
OK, no offense taken, and, I understand that for marketing, saving a few seconds off of
boot-up time is an immense selling point, especially when all the distros stand up next to
one another and try to write their boot up times into the snow.
Reading the forums and the mailing lists, I don't think I've come across one post
that is positive for keeping the timeout at zero, yet, there is a wall to be hurdled
called "distribution buy-in".
After close to a year using fedora, I know that the first thing I have to do is change the
timeout to a 3 and comment out hiddenmenu. But as a new user, it took a while for me to
figure out what was going on. I feel for the new user who has a video card that is not
immediately recognized and winds up with a black screen after the boot. I have had this
happen to me personally doing an install, and, there have been some installs where hitting
esc would not stop the boot. I've had to ssh into one machine to change the timeout,
just so I could add "vesa" to the kernel line during boot.
As someone who spends his time helping Linux users on forums, it would really help a lot
to remove this obstacle. It doesn't make sense to lock a new user out of the grub
screen.
Thanks for Listening
Tom Wroblewski
GoinEasy9
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