Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:31:00 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extending cdboot with options "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt Message-ID: <20040819183059.GD11002@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <4124EC39.6030001@cronyx.ru> References: <4124B473.9070004@portaone.com> <1092925503.67807.11.camel@klamath.ankon.de.eu.org> <20040819145753.GA81657@ip.net.ua> <4124EC39.6030001@cronyx.ru>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:06:49PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > >On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:03PM +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote: > > > > > >>On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 16:08, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>Please review/comment on attached patch, which extends cdboot with > >>>"Press any key to boot from CD" prompt inspired by Windows installation > >>>CDs. IMHO this feature is quite useful for installation CDs, and > >>>probably for other interactive one-shot CDs, to prevent machine from > >>>booting off CD again after work is complete. If there is no objections, > >>>I'd like to request repo copy from cdboot.s into cdboot.S and then > >>>commit this change. My plan is to keep this feature turned off by > >>>default, and provide make(1) knob to turn it one if necessary. > >>> > >>>Thanks! > >>> > >>>-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? > >> > >> > >> > >Aren't you supposed to already know which CD you have inserted? ;) > > > > > In case you are updating several OSs at the same time and this disk was > inserted a day ago > (for example, a pretty girl take you away from you faforite computer to > the cinema ;-) > you may just don't remember what disk is there - OS you've already > installed or you > wish to install. Especially if you always forgot to mark recordable CDs. > (or not always, > that one girl take you away at the moment you've started to mark you CD ;-) > Hah, sounds like a personal experience ;-) - Christian -- Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBJPHjbHYXjKDtmC0RAnvsAKCnRiGflj4Uy8DH9Cdh+K9iFFK8/QCg46ZQ WHcnns/PqOQOVOuAecBdn7s= =eser -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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