Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:04:10 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> To: Sergey Mokryshev <mokr@mokr.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extending cdboot with options "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt Message-ID: <4125DAAA.9050304@portaone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040820145419.H640@lemori.mokr.net> References: <4124B473.9070004@portaone.com> <20040820145419.H640@lemori.mokr.net>
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Sergey Mokryshev wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, 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 >> > Maxim, > > Windows 2000 and later checks for an active partition on HDD first, and > display this message if none found. > > Is it hard to implement? Don't know for sure. Also you can have several hard drives, another CD-ROMs, floppies etc., that set for bootstraping in BIOS after current CD-ROM, so that I doubt that such detection is a good idea and worth efforts. -Maxim
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