Bug#411552: please set a timeout in syslinux screen
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Robert Millan wrote:
> 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.
I'd say 5 minutes is a little bit exagerated. IMHO 1 minute should
be ok.
BTW, I also found it annoying when I found the virtual machines I
used for different things hanged at that prompt after I started with
a custom image and went away to find no progress on the booting process.
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Regards,
EddyP
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