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Suggestions for the bootloader menu #285

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dankcuddlybear opened this issue Jul 28, 2023 · 3 comments
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Suggestions for the bootloader menu #285

dankcuddlybear opened this issue Jul 28, 2023 · 3 comments
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@dankcuddlybear
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  1. When TIMEOUT=0, the default entry is booted immediately, and I am unable to access the menu. Make it so that the default entry still boots immediately, but the menu appears if a key is held when Limine is loaded, allowing you to choose a boot option.
  2. Remove loading messages when loading initramfs/kernel: "Loading boot:///initramfs-linux.img" "Loading boot:///vmlinuz-linux.img" as it looks nicer without these messages
  3. Remember previously booted entry
@dankcuddlybear dankcuddlybear changed the title Suggestions for the menu Suggestions for the bootloader menu Jul 29, 2023
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mekb-turtle commented Jul 31, 2023

I suggest have 1 let you hold the key regardless of the timeout, like how some firmwares let you open the firmware settings by just holding F12/Del/etc instead of spamming it.
I suggest have 2 only when the QUIET=yes option is set.

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ginzberg commented Mar 1, 2024

+1 on "remember previous booted entry"
This is the one feature from grub that I miss. For future historians, in grub you can define GRUB_DEFAULT=saved, and the behavior will essentially set the default entry upon booting. As a proposal for how one could configure this in liming, I believe setting DEFAULT_ENTRY=-1 could potentially serve the purpose.

@mintsuki mintsuki added the enhancement New feature or request label Mar 19, 2024
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rlees85 commented Mar 29, 2024

Just started using this bootloader on an old laptop and couldn't be bothered with GRUB. Really like it. Point 1 about being able to access the menu when a certain key (suggest ESC or F8) is pressed would be very useful. Its nice to have no timeout to boot the default option but have a way of booting alternative options to debug for example if the main boot option won't work (kernel update).

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