-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Millan wrote: > 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.
I'd say 5 minutes is a little bit exagerated. IMHO 1 minute should be ok. BTW, I also found it annoying when I found the virtual machines I used for different things hanged at that prompt after I started with a custom image and went away to find no progress on the booting process. - -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF2r21Y8Chqv3NRNoRArBXAJ4kBY+oCquMjbD6x3kRDGBq94fndACgmq/i i7grmxSa4562k1A73mNcCoc= =H2Mi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
