Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:58:22 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> To: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extending cdboot with options "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt Message-ID: <4125227E.5010400@cronyx.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040819183059.GD11002@unixpages.org> References: <4124B473.9070004@portaone.com> <1092925503.67807.11.camel@klamath.ankon.de.eu.org> <20040819145753.GA81657@ip.net.ua> <4124EC39.6030001@cronyx.ru> <20040819183059.GD11002@unixpages.org>
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Christian Brueffer пишет: >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 ;-) > No it is not, but now I can have some unmarked CD, cause my marker is dead. I need to go and by a new one. ;-) > >- Christian > > >
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