[opensuse-factory] Hiding grub prompt when previous boot is successful and when only one OS is installed
Hi, GRUB is mostly pointless in scenarios where OS boots fine and only one OS is installed in graphical session. It would be nice to hide it. Fedora has 4 patches for this purpose [1,2,3,4], the only thing we would need to add to this would be YaST handling of setting variable automatically for graphical target. I know that snapper is an useful tool for openSUSE, and GRUB is very much required for this to work, but snapper is almost always used when user isn't able to boot into the system. Beyond that maybe it would be nice to think about BLS [5] in openSUSE, as an extension to GRUB only snapper plugin, it could work for more than just GRUB ;) [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/blob/master/f/0188-Add-auto-hide-me... [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/blob/master/f/0194-00_menu_auto_hid... [3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/blob/master/f/0195-00_menu_auto_hid... [4] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/blob/master/f/0213-Rename-00_menu_a... [5] https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 4/23/19 3:28 PM, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
GRUB is mostly pointless in scenarios where OS boots fine and only one OS is installed in graphical session. It would be nice to hide it.
Why? If you have just one operating system installed, you can just hibernate your machine anyway and don't have to reboot the machine at all.
Fedora has 4 patches for this purpose [1,2,3,4], the only thing we would need to add to this would be YaST handling of setting variable automatically for graphical target.
FWIW, Fedora also has almost 300 patches on top of GRUB 2.02:
I think that's just way too much. They will have a lot of fun with the upcoming version 2.04 when they have to rebase everything.
I know that snapper is an useful tool for openSUSE, and GRUB is very much required for this to work, but snapper is almost always used when user isn't able to boot into the system.
But what about just switching to systemd-boot then? Adrian
Am Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:38:11 +0000 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com>:
GRUB is mostly pointless in scenarios where OS boots fine and only one OS is installed in graphical session. It would be nice to hide it.
Why? If you have just one operating system installed, you can just hibernate your machine anyway and don't have to reboot the machine at all.
Unless you're running TW and keep up with every snapshot. Most of them bring updates for something that needs a reboot. Regards, vinz. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On wto, Apr 23, 2019 at 3:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com> wrote:
On 4/23/19 3:28 PM, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
GRUB is mostly pointless in scenarios where OS boots fine and only one OS is installed in graphical session. It would be nice to hide it.
Why? If you have just one operating system installed, you can just hibernate your machine anyway and don't have to reboot the machine at all.
You need to reboot for updates/upgrades (which in case of Tumbleweed are just like updates ;) ) If I didn't restart as much as I do, I wouldn't be suggesting this change :P
Fedora has 4 patches for this purpose [1,2,3,4], the only thing we would need to add to this would be YaST handling of setting variable automatically for graphical target.
FWIW, Fedora also has almost 300 patches on top of GRUB 2.02:
I think that's just way too much. They will have a lot of fun with the upcoming version 2.04 when they have to rebase everything.
I mean, openSUSE has 150, it's still not going to be fun.
I know that snapper is an useful tool for openSUSE, and GRUB is very much required for this to work, but snapper is almost always used when user isn't able to boot into the system.
But what about just switching to systemd-boot then?
We cannot do this, systemd-boot doesn't support booting from different partition than the one mounted for loader entries. Our default partition is /boot/efi (kernel+initrd however in /boot), and YaST will complain about different setup than this. This is done because of snapper, which backs up /boot for the sake of keeping the same kernel and initrd for snapshots. GRUB2 with BLS will work with such setup though.
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:56:50PM +0200, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
On wto, Apr 23, 2019 at 3:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com> wrote:
On 4/23/19 3:28 PM, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
GRUB is mostly pointless in scenarios where OS boots fine and only one OS is installed in graphical session. It would be nice to hide it.
Why? If you have just one operating system installed, you can just hibernate your machine anyway and don't have to reboot the machine at all.
You need to reboot for updates/upgrades (which in case of Tumbleweed are just like updates ;) ) If I didn't restart as much as I do, I wouldn't be suggesting this change :P
Why don't you just hide GRUB and/or set the timeout to 0? Zero patches, zero wait. You will have to remember the sequence to interrupt it for those odd times you want to pass flags to the kernel, rollback etc. - and be quick-on-the-draw :) I've found a 1 second timeout is a happy medium, and doesn't detract from the normal/fast boot sequence for family I've transitioned. Daniel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On wto, Apr 23, 2019 at 4:36 PM, Daniel Morris <danielm@ecoscentric.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:56:50PM +0200, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
On wto, Apr 23, 2019 at 3:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <adrian.glaubitz@suse.com> wrote:
On 4/23/19 3:28 PM, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
GRUB is mostly pointless in scenarios where OS boots fine and only one OS is installed in graphical session. It would be nice to hide it.
Why? If you have just one operating system installed, you can just hibernate your machine anyway and don't have to reboot the machine at all.
You need to reboot for updates/upgrades (which in case of Tumbleweed are just like updates ;) ) If I didn't restart as much as I do, I wouldn't be suggesting this change :P
Why don't you just hide GRUB and/or set the timeout to 0? Zero patches, zero wait.
You will have to remember the sequence to interrupt it for those odd times you want to pass flags to the kernel, rollback etc. - and be quick-on-the-draw :)
I've found a 1 second timeout is a happy medium, and doesn't detract from the normal/fast boot sequence for family I've transitioned.
Eh, I guess I should have better explained it, GRUB requires graphical mode to be loaded before Linux is initialized, which causes needless flickering and such. Not loading GRUB at all for users and usecases where they don't need it would be a great solution in that case. LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Am 23.04.19 um 17:00 schrieb Stasiek Michalski:
Eh, I guess I should have better explained it, GRUB requires graphical mode to be loaded before Linux is initialized, which causes needless flickering and such.
No, it doesn't strolchi:~ # grep ^GRUB_TERMINAL= /etc/default/grub GRUB_TERMINAL=console -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 23/04/2019 17.00, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
On wto, Apr 23, 2019 at 4:36 PM, Daniel Morris <> wrote:
I've found a 1 second timeout is a happy medium, and doesn't detract from the normal/fast boot sequence for family I've transitioned.
Eh, I guess I should have better explained it, GRUB requires graphical mode to be loaded before Linux is initialized, which causes needless flickering and such. Not loading GRUB at all for users and usecases where they don't need it would be a great solution in that case.
Uninstall plymouth. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE, Leap 15.1 x86_64 (ssd-test)) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On czw, Apr 25, 2019 at 2:34 PM, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 23/04/2019 17.00, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
On wto, Apr 23, 2019 at 4:36 PM, Daniel Morris <> wrote:
I've found a 1 second timeout is a happy medium, and doesn't detract from the normal/fast boot sequence for family I've transitioned.
Eh, I guess I should have better explained it, GRUB requires graphical mode to be loaded before Linux is initialized, which causes needless flickering and such. Not loading GRUB at all for users and usecases where they don't need it would be a great solution in that case.
Uninstall plymouth.
That's unrelated, besides, we ship plymouth to make the distribution look halfway decent. You are free to uninstall it yourself though, plymouth is here to stay as the default as SUSE has decided to not develop kernel backed bootsplash. LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 25/04/2019 19.29, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
On czw, Apr 25, 2019 at 2:34 PM, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 23/04/2019 17.00, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
On wto, Apr 23, 2019 at 4:36 PM, Daniel Morris <> wrote:
I've found a 1 second timeout is a happy medium, and doesn't detract from the normal/fast boot sequence for family I've transitioned.
Eh, I guess I should have better explained it, GRUB requires graphical mode to be loaded before Linux is initialized, which causes needless flickering and such. Not loading GRUB at all for users and usecases where they don't need it would be a great solution in that case.
Uninstall plymouth.
That's unrelated, besides, we ship plymouth to make the distribution look halfway decent. You are free to uninstall it yourself though, plymouth is here to stay as the default as SUSE has decided to not develop kernel backed bootsplash.
Sorry. I always remove it on all my installs as unnecessary bloat. When I decided to do so, it accounted for half the size of the initrd image, besides causing issues. Me, I consider the flow of kernel text messages as it boots beautiful - but hey, that's me :-) I have no issues with it being the default. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE, Leap 15.1 x86_64 (ssd-test)) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 4/25/19 9:10 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 25/04/2019 19.29, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
On czw, Apr 25, 2019 at 2:34 PM, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 23/04/2019 17.00, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
On wto, Apr 23, 2019 at 4:36 PM, Daniel Morris <> wrote:
I've found a 1 second timeout is a happy medium, and doesn't detract from the normal/fast boot sequence for family I've transitioned.
Eh, I guess I should have better explained it, GRUB requires graphical mode to be loaded before Linux is initialized, which causes needless flickering and such. Not loading GRUB at all for users and usecases where they don't need it would be a great solution in that case.
Uninstall plymouth.
That's unrelated, besides, we ship plymouth to make the distribution look halfway decent. You are free to uninstall it yourself though, plymouth is here to stay as the default as SUSE has decided to not develop kernel backed bootsplash.
Sorry. I always remove it on all my installs as unnecessary bloat. When I decided to do so, it accounted for half the size of the initrd image, besides causing issues. Me, I consider the flow of kernel text messages as it boots beautiful - but hey, that's me :-)
I'd like to add that normal users, like all my non-IT friends I setup Tumbleweed laptops for, do not care at all about how booting looks like (flickering, text messages or not, whatever). They are not looking at this. They just want their daily stuff to work after login. That's all. Ciao, Michael. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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