Robert Millan wrote: > Please do set a timeout in syslinux screen. Even if it's a very high one. > Since sparc already has 600/10 s as timeout, I propose the same for x86. IIRC you have to enter something at boot to make a sparc boot from CD. CD booting is not the default, like it is on many x86 machines. Therefore, you're comparing apples and oranges, the existance of a timeout on sparc is not relevant. > 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.. -- see shy jo
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