Quoting Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 19 February 2007 21:22, David Härdeman wrote: > > The only problem with the approach is that a large majority of all > > machines have usb which means that we'll slow down the boot for all > > those machines even though a small minority are affected. > > That's a very, very ugly solution then. I'd almost say it's unacceptable > to add more than 1, maybe 2 seconds for something like this. > Is there really no way to avoid that? > > Note that you will get loads of bug reports complaining about "long pause > during boot" if you do this. I know from experience how completely > annoying such pauses are (see #401352). >
quickly replying via a strange webinterface from a strange "internet" access. anyway you must have misunderstood David, the timeout would only happen if you have usb||firewire storage plugged in. and i agree that 10 seconds is long but other distro do the same apparently. we might cut it to 6 or 7. best regards -- maks
