On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 17:08 +0000, Alexander Bisogianis wrote:
On 08/11/16 16:56, Bastien Nocera wrote:
Because, if we fail to boot, you won't have an opportunity to even get to the boot menu on many systems. Would be easier if we could design the hardware to go with the boot menu ;)
There could be a delay of say 3-5 seconds, with grub hidden, so if we fail to boot people have a change to react.
This is actually exactly what we did a long time ago in the case of single-boot installs. I don't remember precisely what changed.