On Tuesday 20 February 2007 00:03, Joey Hess wrote: > > 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.. My gut feeling says not to change this. If your keyboard does not work during initial boot stages, there is obviously something structurally broken anyway as it means you can also not do any BIOS setup. I'd suggest such a user should get an AT keyboard somewhere and fix his BIOS setup to solve this.
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