Comment 2 for bug 629024

What about just not showing the kernel choice? The topmost is mostly right anyway.

If you are a normal user, have a stable system and install tested kernels, you are not likely to need to choose at all. Seeing this dialog every time on startup (with a countdown and a list of choices) will make a big question mark pop up above your head. 10 seconds long, every startup.

Compare that to the few times where you actually need to choose another kernel. At the point when you need to do that you probably don’t know it has to do with this kernel thing and you need to ask for help anyway. When you tell them there is no such thing as a list before the Ubuntu logo appears, they’ll tell you you need to hold shift to see it (is it shift? I don’t know, don’t remember the last time I needed it.)