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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience
From:       Nils Philippsen <nils () redhat ! com>
Date:       2013-03-14 13:56:08
Message-ID: 1363269368.12637.8.camel () gibraltar ! str ! redhat ! com
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On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 09:09 -0400, Steve Clark wrote:
> On 03/14/2013 07:06 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 
> > On 03/11/2013 10:48 PM, Björn Persson wrote:
> > > Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > > (And on EFI systems that do not initialize USB anymore during POST, you
> > > > have to go through the OS to get into the boot loader anyway...)
> > > That's going to be real fun when the OS fails to boot, and I can't fix
> > > the boot because I can't get into the boot loader because the OS fails
> > > to boot.
> > +1
> > 
> Yeah Lennart what do you do then?

If AIUI only the OS sets up USB, only the USB will be able to use it.
Unless GRUB does its own USB setup, it simply doesn't matter in that
case whether or not the GRUB menu is shown, if you can't type in it.

Nils
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