> 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. Certainly, but having the timeout as a backup method to boot something doesn't hurt that much. Robert gave an interesting rationale even if the sparc example wasn't correct. I'm personnally in favor of this change. The only drawback could be booting to the first screen of the installer which, as already written, doesn't hurt much more than booting to the syslinux prompt. --
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