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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:25:03 +0200
From:      Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extending cdboot with options "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt
Message-ID:  <1092925503.67807.11.camel@klamath.ankon.de.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <4124B473.9070004@portaone.com>
References:  <4124B473.9070004@portaone.com>

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On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 16:08, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Please review/comment on attached patch, which extends cdboot with=20
> "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt inspired by Windows installation=20
> CDs. IMHO this feature is quite useful for installation CDs, and=20
> probably for other interactive one-shot CDs, to prevent machine from=20
> booting off CD again after work is complete. If there is no objections,=20
> I'd like to request repo copy from cdboot.s into cdboot.S and then=20
> commit this change. My plan is to keep this feature turned off by=20
> default, and provide make(1) knob to turn it one if necessary.
>=20
> Thanks!
>=20
> -Maxim

I like this idea very much.

One small question: would it make sense to change the message to
something which tells the user *what* will boot if he pressed a key?

Regards,
--
Andreas


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