On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 12:49:50PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > On 04/03/2014 10:23 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > > When grub_wait_after_message says "Press any key to continue...", it > > really means that it will continue anyway after a short delay, but that > > you can press a key to skip the delay. Unfortunately, the delay is just > > long enough that in practice a number of users have time to see it, > > press a key, and then report a bug saying that their system won't boot > > without manual intervention, even though it would have booted just fine > > if they'd left it alone. Rephrase this message to make it clearer > > what's really happening. > > I have mixed feelings about changing this message since it is such a > well known message. OTOH, I've never really liked it myself.
Surely nobody can really be depending on it; I don't see a problem with changing that kind of text, in and of itself. > Maybe a better idea is to do a timeout message > > Press any key for menu (boot will continue in 5 seconds) ... > Press any key for menu (boot will continue in 4 seconds) ... > ... > etc. > > ? It's not necessarily "for menu" - you get this for errors after a menu item has been selected too, and then it's just a delay before booting. Seems like a lot of effort. The actual delay is 2.5 seconds so a countdown would look jumpy at the end ... -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
