Bug#411552: please set a timeout in syslinux screen
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:03:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > 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..
Why not making it very high then? Waiting 5 minutes is no problem when you
have no other choice.
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