On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Some time ago somebody asked on our lists why didn't we made our cds > behave like the Windows cd do, in the sense that if you forget the cd in > the drive while rebooting the machine, and this one boots from the cd, > if the user doesn't touch the keyboard in a certain time, the boot > continues from the Hard Disk.
Yes, I like the idea. > I have written an small assembler .cbt program today that if called from > syslinux, isolinux, ... boots from the HD, if that fails it tries with the > FD, and if that fails outputs a message saying that boot has failed and > waits for the user to hit a key and then reboots. Good work, thanks! > The problem with this idea is that, to make the program run when > syslinux times out, this program must be syslinux default boot, and > thus, if you just hit enter or return, you'll end up booting from your > HD instead of booting the install, which is what we did up to now, and > this can be confusing for the people. I believe we should find a way how to make syslinux do different thing after timeout and after hitting enter. Enter should start a normal install, IMHO. Maybe something like ESC should boot from disk ... Regards, -- Jan Houstek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
