Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:10:04 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extending cdboot with options "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt Message-ID: <1092928204.62194.36.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> In-Reply-To: <20040819145753.GA81657@ip.net.ua> References: <4124B473.9070004@portaone.com> <1092925503.67807.11.camel@klamath.ankon.de.eu.org> <20040819145753.GA81657@ip.net.ua>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 07:57, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:03PM +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote: > > 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? > > > Aren't you supposed to already know which CD you have inserted? ;) You'd think so, ideally, but I've seen fairly smart people demonstrate to the contrary, with rather spectacular, but undesired results. One of my cow-orkers turned a perfectly good multi-boot laptop into a near-clone of our product this way. :-p Bruce. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBJMLL2MoxcVugUsMRArInAJ4n830ccv2mBje67PfdqUydfik6GwCeIXTt eNGkEIjBGWHhjO+Xf2qVzAM= =jEqO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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