Question about the "boot" menu

Hello to everyone. Newbie here. I just installed Mageia 4 this evening. Had been using Ubuntu 12.04LTS but really wanted to change things up. WIthout being long winded on my first posting, let me say that the download and subsequent burning to DVD of the Mageia-4 Live cd went off just fine. I did install it onto my hard drive after a brief tour of this new (to me) OS.. so far so good. I certainly like the look and feel of this "new" OS. My only question and one is on the initial "boot up" of the computer. Before I was only displayed a boot menu for lack of better words, if I had selected to boot off of a cd/usd or other device.. I'm use to turning my computer on and the desktop appears shortly thereafter..
Now with this "new" Magelia OS of mine, a "boot menu" selection ( if that's the best description) appears, then after a brief moment, the Magelia desktop appears. Is this normal?
I only have ONE partition on my hard drive. I had the install erase and utilize the entire HD since I did not have anything of any real use left on the Ubuntu partition..
So that's the question. It's late for me, been a long day, and I've called myself searching in these forums, the WIKI and release notes, even read the HTML version of the installation proceedures again, but none of that addresses what I think is a simple question..
So that's all I got for now. I think I will enjoy this version of Linux just have some learning to do.. feel free to chime in and TIA
booker.
Now with this "new" Magelia OS of mine, a "boot menu" selection ( if that's the best description) appears, then after a brief moment, the Magelia desktop appears. Is this normal?
I only have ONE partition on my hard drive. I had the install erase and utilize the entire HD since I did not have anything of any real use left on the Ubuntu partition..
So that's the question. It's late for me, been a long day, and I've called myself searching in these forums, the WIKI and release notes, even read the HTML version of the installation proceedures again, but none of that addresses what I think is a simple question..
So that's all I got for now. I think I will enjoy this version of Linux just have some learning to do.. feel free to chime in and TIA
booker.
