On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:18:57PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote: > > > Modern BIOSes have splash screens. I don't see why our BIOS shouldn't > > > have one too. > > > > Crap PC BIOSes have splash screens because they're horribly slow > > and otherwise printing lots of irrelevant scary junk at users. The > > best BIOS 'splash' screen is one which never appears unless there > > is a boot failure, and gets control to the OS as quickly as possible. > > IMHO a better goal is reducing the time until the OS / bootloader is > > able to take over all management of the display. > > I agree. The qemu bios init process takes almost no time. > > The only reason it takes a noticeable amount of time is that we have a > deliberate delay in there to allow the user to access the boot menu. > I'm not convinced this menu is actually very useful in practice, It's > something that should probably be delegated to your management utility and/or > be optional.
I agree - if you've not got an easy way to switch boot devices already, then that's a bug in the management app being used. So a way to turn off this BIOS boot menu would be benefical. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
