From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 18:31:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D630716A4CE; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:31:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 543EC43D31; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:31:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I2P004TPI3VLL@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de>; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:31:08 +0200 (MEST) Received: from relay.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:31:06 +0200 (MEST) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.92])i7JIV5RA021188; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:31:05 +0200 (MEST) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))(Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C03E28442; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:31:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 14D75613A; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:31:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:31:00 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <4124EC39.6030001@cronyx.ru> To: Roman Kurakin Message-id: <20040819183059.GD11002@unixpages.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=DiL7RhKs8rK9YGuF; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <4124B473.9070004@portaone.com> <1092925503.67807.11.camel@klamath.ankon.de.eu.org> <20040819145753.GA81657@ip.net.ua> <4124EC39.6030001@cronyx.ru> cc: Maxim Sobolev cc: Andreas Kohn cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extending cdboot with options "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:31:10 -0000 --DiL7RhKs8rK9YGuF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:06:49PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >=20 > >On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:03PM +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote: > >=20 > > > >>On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 16:08, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > >> =20 > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>Please review/comment on attached patch, which extends cdboot with=20 > >>>"Press any key to boot from CD" prompt inspired by Windows installatio= n=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. > >>> > >>>Thanks! > >>> > >>>-Maxim > >>> =20 > >>> > >>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? > >> > >> =20 > >> > >Aren't you supposed to already know which CD you have inserted? ;) > >=20 > > > In case you are updating several OSs at the same time and this disk was= =20 > inserted a day ago > (for example, a pretty girl take you away from you faforite computer to= =20 > the cinema ;-) > you may just don't remember what disk is there - OS you've already=20 > installed or you > wish to install. Especially if you always forgot to mark recordable CDs.= =20 > (or not always, > that one girl take you away at the moment you've started to mark you CD ;= -) >=20 Hah, sounds like a personal experience ;-) - Christian --=20 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 --DiL7RhKs8rK9YGuF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBJPHjbHYXjKDtmC0RAnvsAKCnRiGflj4Uy8DH9Cdh+K9iFFK8/QCg46ZQ WHcnns/PqOQOVOuAecBdn7s= =eser -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DiL7RhKs8rK9YGuF--