Comment 51 for bug 571444

Interesting history of discussion on this topic. I also stumbled on a small thread regarding users confused about what to do for this here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10094269#post10094269

I'm a fairly big fan of having a timeout for bootwait. Alternatively, perhaps we need another option in addition to bootwait and nobootwait... "bootwaitdelay" or something like that. I'd then suggest that at install time, there be an "advanced options" area people can view to change some defaults for things like this.

I support another simple 'solution' could be to add a comment to the default /etc/fstab file that informs people of 'nobootwait' as I think for most Ubuntu users, that'd be enough. Granted the more casual users would still be stuck "enjoying" the annoying nature of their experience.

Those are my two cents anyway. Gerald's comments look quite nice too.