John on S8

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 10:47 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:22:08PM +0800, John wrote:
> 
> > I think hiding the grub menu a mistake, and I thought the default delay 
> > a little short.
> 
> We've increased the timeout once already (from 2 seconds to 3 seconds), and
> while I agree that _when you want it_ a longer timeout would be nice, most
> users will never know that the grub menu exists, and a longer delay just
> slows down their boot process.
> 
> I believe you can hold down the escape key rather than waiting for the
> prompt to appear.

Could we do the same for ppc?

At this moment I have two delays of 10 seconds until the system boots.

The first one lets me select the operating system (Linux, BSD, MacOSX,
MacOS or boot from CDROM). by default it let's me choose Linux or CDROM
boot (10 seconds until it boots linux option)

The second one lets me choose the kernel I want to boot (another 10
seconds waiting until it boots the default one).


With Apple machines (I'm not sure if it works with old machines), you
can press the 'c' char on boot and you boot from the cdrom so the first
menu is useless if you only select between Linux or CDROM.

Also, if you press the Alt key when turn on an Apple machine, you get a
graphical boot selector that list all operating systems the computer
detects, it's dynamic so it detects any new addition without changing
anything. It also detects firewire/usb/net boot devices so it's also
better than our text selector.

Cheers.

-- 
Carlos Perelló Marín
Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC)
Linux Registered User #121232
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Valencia - Spain