From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 20 18:01:50 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 542A816A4D1 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:01:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2.speakeasy.net (mail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED0543D39 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:01:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 5262 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2004 18:01:49 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 20 Aug 2004 18:01:49 -0000 Received: from [10.50.40.208] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7KI0fGf065473; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:00:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:55:27 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <4124B473.9070004@portaone.com> <20040819145753.GA81657@ip.net.ua> <20040819150502.GA4107@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20040819150502.GA4107@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408201255.27330.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: Maxim Sobolev cc: Ruslan Ermilov 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: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:01:50 -0000 On Thursday 19 August 2004 11:05 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-08-19 17:57, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:03PM +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote: > > > 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? ;) > > FWIW, I also like the idea of something like: > > Press any key to boot FreeBSD from CDROM... > > Of course you're supposed to know, and you can certainly stop the > installer even after the system has booted into it, but it's not a bad > idea and it will help keeping away the confusion of users who think that > this is some clever Windows-only trick, right? cdboot is also used by at least DragonFly and OpenBSD (probably FreesBIE and others as well), so I'd be very reluctant to add any FreeBSD specific bits that would force other projects to maintain local diffs. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org