Comment 3 for bug 425979
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| Martin Maney (maney) wrote Re: [Bug 425979] [NEW] [karmic alpha 5] grub2 has no visible pause for menu | #3 |
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On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:12:43PM -0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Try holding down Shift at boot time. This change was required by:
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Ah, I see. Something a committee thought was too cute for words trumps
usability. Pardon me if I'm amazed - we so rarely see this in open
source software.
Considering the brokeness, apparently quite deeply rooted in alpha 5,
with the Radeon video in that box, I don't see any point in swapping
disks around again to try this invisible magic - I only need it to get
it to boot to a text console, since X fails after GDM authentication,
and I've since learned enough to feel that on this hardware alpha 5
just isn't worth the effort. Maybe the next one will have versions of
the various parts that work together.
I'd like to leave you with one thought: What does it say about how
usable this is that I had to file a freaking bug report to learn of
this silliness?