Re: [Salix-main] New tool: GUEFI

[Richard L. <ric...@gm...>]

I played around with the timeout value on my Asus Laptop and am very 
disappointment that it does not control how long the builtin UEFI boot 
menu is displayed.  Rather it just allows you to adjust the time that 
you have to press the key which does bring up the UEFI menu.  On my Asus 
laptop in CMS mode it just sits at the boot splash screen for the length 
of time that the timeout is set at. In pure UEFI mode it just displays a 
blank screen or the duration of the set timeout. In both cases, during 
this time, I can press the ESC key and bring up the boot menu screen.  
So it looks to me like there still will be a need for a 3rd party boot 
manager like grub2 or rEFInd.

Rich Lapointe


On 07/16/2016 10:30 AM, Tim Beech wrote:
> Very good point. We don't want people thinking "Where on earth did 
> Windows go when I installed this Linux thing?"
>
>
>     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.
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>     Ricard Lapointe
>
>     > On Jul 16, 2016, at 4:53 AM, tim.beech <tim...@gm...
>     <mailto: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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