On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 08:08:48AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 07:38, Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > btw, sd-boot has a few tricks up its sleeve: if during boot you keep > > > > "w" pressed down it will automatically boot into windows, similar if > > > > you keep "l" pressed down it will automaticall boot into linux, "a" > > > > will boot into macos, all without showing any UI at all. This means > > > > the boot menu can be hidden entirely during boot with a zero timeout, > > > > but you can still boot into a specific boot entry. > > > > > > That's actually awful, in my opinion, > > > > Why? It's nice to have them and I can't see any downsides. > > > > It isn't that you put the keyboard strokes, it is that you are saying > you can do a zero-timeout without problems.
Ah, ok. I meant specifically the hotkey existing. I clearly can see that hiding the boot menu has its downsides and in fact most of my machines are configured to show it (and I think server actually defaults to menu=on, only workstatiion has menu=off by default). That is doesn't matter much for the uefi/bios and grub2/sd-boot discussion though, both boot loaders can be configured to whatever timeout you like. > 4. Screen flickering and paused screens. The lenovos I have do weird > things when attached to external monitors. Screens will stick on > monitors during the boot up sequence sometimes.. or they will do sync > tests which drop the entire video for 3-5 seconds at a time. I have a 4k monitor connected to a intel nuc, and grub has a 30s timeout there because it takes *ages* for the screen to sync. And even with the 30s timeout I don't see the menu now and then. The other extreme are laptop panels which typically sync within the fraction of a second where all this is not a problem at all. take care, Gerd _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
