Feature changed by: Jiri Srain (jsrain) Feature #305317, revision 9 Title: Default to hidden bootloader menu openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jiri Srain (jsrain) Description: As long as there is no other operating system present (SUSE is the only system), it makes sense to default to hidden bootloader menu (and booting directly). References: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Hidden-menu-interface https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425717 Discussion: #1: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-04-16 10:34:48) I like that idea. I guess it's a tiny change for bootloader, but has possibly some docu impact. #2: Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov) (2009-05-28 16:45:13) How should it behave with option to keep kernels from updates (libzypp option)? What about failsafe? + #3: Jiri Srain (jsrain) (2009-06-01 11:21:11) + From the GRUB documentation: + When your terminal is dumb or you request GRUB to hide the menu + interface explicitly with the command `hiddenmenu' (*note + hiddenmenu::), GRUB doesn't show the menu interface (*note Menu + interface::) and automatically boots the default entry, unless + interrupted by pressing ESC. + When you interrupt the timeout and your terminal is dumb, GRUB falls + back to the command-line interface (*note Command-line interface::). + This sounds to me like this GRUB feature is intended for different + purpose, and the use case described here does not make much sense + (unlike lowering the time-out to e.g. 1 second). Torsten, what is your + view? + According to the documentation, GRUB allows to display the boot menu + via pushing the Escape button. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305317