[Bug 477703] Re: grub2 is autistic, i.e. no input, no output

[Lupe Christoph]

Correction:

I get the menu with the shift key now. No idea what changed.

But I still think it's a bad idea to present an empty screen for 10
seconds. Any unexplained inactivity makes me nervous after about three
seconds and I start pressing buttons. Due to the changed default (Escape
-> Shift) that is not explained in the upgrade from GRUB to GRUB 2 many
people will miss trying Shift. I just happen to have used other Linux
distributions that used Shift. IIRC they *did* tell you you could use
that key...

So something like
    echo "Booting default kernel in 10 Seconds. Press shift key for other options"
might be a good idea. (Dunno how you print something in that fancy GRUB2 language, it's probably not echo.)

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