Re: [Salix-main] New tool: GUEFI

[George V. <vla...@gm...>]

Right. The correct place to set that should probably be eliloconfig. I'll 
look into it. 10 seconds should be enough I think.

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016, Richard Lapointe wrote:

> So because of Tim's comment regarding the timeout setting, I finally googled what this function did. To my surprise (but it should have been obvious) the timeout controls how long the built in uefi boot menu is displayed before booting the  default OS. Every uefi system I have worked apparently has this time out set to"1" because I never see the built in menu come up unless I press the key that activated it.  It appears that the hardware / firmware vendors are setting one second as the default which makes it appear as there is no boot manger and loads the OS iimmediately.  This then creates confusion when a second operating system is installed; with the installer setting  the new OS as the default boot (makes it the first boot option) and  boots the new OS thereafter making it appear as if the original OS is no longer available ( I installed Slackware and it blew away my Win 20 install!!).
>
> Setting the timeout to something more reasonable, like 10 to 30 seconds would make these multi-boot issues go away and eliminate ( in most cases) the need for boot managers like grub2 and rEFInd. This is  should be considered as part of the installation when eliloconf is ran.
>
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>
> Ricard Lapointe
>
>> On Jul 16, 2016, at 4:53 AM, tim.beech <tim...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Whatever I have is what was installed initially. I never mess with that
>> stuff. I'm using ratpoison at the moment not xfce, but presumably that
>> makes no difference.
>>
>> Another thing, I wonder if a longer default timeout might not be good?
>> I'm thinking of the less experienced users who most need all this to be
>> easy for them.
>>
>>> On Sat, 16 Jul 2016, George Vlahavas wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>> I'm not home today, so I can't check for myself, but could it be the GTK
>>> theme you're using? GUEFI is using GTK+3, so this probably looks different
>>> than the respective widgets in GTK+2.
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, tim.beech wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've just noticed a tiny thing, in the box to alter the timeout period,
>>>> the images for plus and minus are missing - I just see identical little
>>>> grey squares in each box. They still work, though.
>>>>
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