Bug 803342
| Summary: | Can't show boot menu using modifier keys | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Kamil Páral <kparal> |
| Component: | grub2 | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | a.vanloon, bcl, hdegoede, jorti, mads, pjones |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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| Last Closed: | 2018-09-03 08:55:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 757487 | ||
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Description
Kamil Páral
2012-03-14 13:46:00 UTC
The grub.cfg generated by the grub2-mkconfig shell script from a-very-hot-place do not use any modifier detection. It is possible to use http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#keystatus to implement it. If you manually edit grub.cfg in such a way that other manual changes are necessary then you are on your own. Instead I would recommend /etc/default/grub with something like GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=3 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true - but you are right, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Grub2 is still not at 100%, and Fedora grub2 do still not give a user experience that matches grub legacy. On my custom live usb I now replace set timeout=... with if keystatus --ctrl then set timeout=-1 else set timeout=0 fi That gives a quiet instant boot unless I press ctrl. IMO that is a nice fit for EFI systems with a boot menu in the firmware. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19 This message is a notice that Fedora 19 is now at end of life. Fedora has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 19. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '19'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 19 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. I tried it with Fedora 21, and on my system pressing or holding the modifier keys during boot is not fully reliable. Still, it would be nice if grub supported this, so that interested users could easily configure it (in /etc/default/grub, not in the final grub2.cfg file, which should not be modified by hand, because it gets overwritten). Grub in F29+ supports holding shift down during boot to show the boot-menu (when it is hidden), closing this. |