On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:30:08AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:26 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:07:19AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > (Dinosaur that I am, I've always thought that there is too much
emphasis
> > > on quick boots with pretty splash screens, but that's just the old
vs.
> > > the new and all that rot.)
> >
> > FWIW, I would support this. As a data point, in my experience people
> > don't count the bootloader time in deciding if a system 'boots
fast' or
> > not. If they see a fast boot from _after_ the bootloader to desktop,
> > they consider it to be a fast booting system.
>
I highly doubt the timeout will be changed. We just need to work harder
on propagating the information that holding shift will get you the grub
menu (or even tapping F8 will just like on Windows, it really doesn't
matter which key you hit (as long as it isn't escape)).
For what it's worth, testing that this morning, I held down the shift
key after booting and it still just booted with a 0 timeout. So, I'm
not sure that solution is universal.
(I didn't try tapping other keys, don't ahve a chance right this
moment.)
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