On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:03:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Rationale: > > > > Some computers have BIOSes that don't support USB keyboards. These are > > not necessarily old computers; I've found relatively new ones (with amd64 > > cpu, etc) that also exhibit this fuckage. The problem is terrible for any > > OS whose installer relies on BIOS calls to receive keyboard input at some > > point. A friend of mine stopped using Windows because he was unable to > > install it :-). Then again, we had an Ubuntu CD and we were unable to > > type anything in the boot screen (which AFAIK is syslinux-based and relies > > on BIOS). Fortunately thanks to the timeout the system booted and he > > could install something Debian-ish at least. However, Debian install > > wouldn't work unless a special CD were built with timeout enabled. > > That is obviously a problem, but so is d-i booting unexpectedly. > > My ambivilance factor is high on this one..
Why not making it very high then? Waiting 5 minutes is no problem when you have no other choice. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
